Welcome to Shine Integrative Physical Therapy

Shine has served the Portland community since 2009. Our mission is to provide the highest-quality care for people of all ages and abilities. Therapy offerings are focused on guiding individuals with chronic and complex conditions to regain a sense of ease and vitality in both body and mind. Shine’s holistic approach facilitates remarkably efficient and lasting recovery from pain and dysfunction. All nice human beings are welcomed as we celebrate everyone’s culture, background, gender identity, and life experiences. So glad you found Shine!

Shine was the West Coast's first clinic to earn a Certified Postural Restoration® site status from the Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI®). With this PRI® foundation, we offer a unique and effective approach to recovery by considering and integrating the dynamic systems in the human body. We efficiently identify and treat painful issues originating from structural alignment and movement impairments, like all physical therapists are trained to. Additionally, we also treat neurological, gastrointestinal and respiratory issues that force you to compensate and not maintain progress from other therapies. By combining specific and sequenced movement retraining, the majority of our clients improve quickly. As they progress, every client is prescribed an individualized exercise sequence to maintain their progress and return to if symptoms start to return. Modifications and guidance for safe return to daily activities, sports and wellness practices are always addressed.

When the body has been challenged by chronic dysfunction, clients may require hands-on treatments in addition to the movement retraining discussed above. We provide expert-level manual therapies, including visceral, vascular and neural mobilization, craniosacral therapy, joint mobilization, and myofascial release interventions. These gentle and highly-specific techniques can greatly reduce even long-standing restrictions for lasting relief.

The Shine team monitors the need for potential assessment and treatment with other supportive health care colleagues. Addressing latent contributors from dental and visual/perceptual impairments are vital to facilitating a full recovery from chronic pain. These systems are rarely screened by other rehabilitation providers but when addressed can be the key to recovery. We also advise on optimal shoe wear and mold custom PRI® foot orthotics. One or all of these approaches may be vital for you to regain accurate sensory processing in your body and allow your nervous system to finally focus back on relaxing and recovering from injury. We communicate with our client’s health care team to ensure carryover of your treatment here into the rest of your life.

All treatment time is fully dedicated to you alone with the complete attention of your therapist. With a comprehensive approach and genuine appreciation of your unique needs and abilities, we offer you the support and skills that will optimize healing. If you are ready to get your life back and quit chasing your pain, we welcome you to Shine!

Treatment specialties for infants and children:

  • Infant care for with babies experiencing reflux, colic, torticollis, feeding challenges, sleeping issues, gastrointestinal challenges (such as constipation), or other distress

  • Pediatric issues including scoliosis, muscle pain after growth spurts, sleeping issues, gastrointestinal challenges (such as constipation) and headaches

  • Pediatric post-concussion treatment focusing on manual therapy and primitive reflex integration

  • Dizziness, visual sensitivities and movement intolerance including motion sickness

  • Headaches, migraines and jaw dysfunction (TMJ/TMD)

  • Breathing assessment and training

  • Gastrointestinal or digestive distress

Treatment specialties for teens and adults:

  • Athletic screening for all ages to optimize body alignment, prevent injuries and enjoy your active lifestyle

  • Optimizing your overall wellness, stress management while enhancing your resiliency and longevity

  • Chronic and complex pain from trauma and surgeries as well as unknown causes

  • Nerve pain including thoracic outlet, carpal tunnel, sciatica and trigeminal neuralgia

  • Post-concussion and head injury therapies including vestibular and oculomotor rehabilitation

  • Dizziness, visual sensitivities, and movement intolerance including motion sickness

  • Headaches, migraines and jaw dysfunction (TMJ/TMD)

  • Breathing assessment and training

  • Gastrointestinal or digestive impairments

  • Joint symptoms after recurrent sprains, athletic injuries, trauma, etc.

  • Pelvic and spinal pain in the sacroiliac joints, back, ribcage and neck, as well as those related to scoliosis

  • Non-invasive pelvic floor dysfunctions such as incontinence, pain, and stability optimization

    Our priority is client-centered care. We are not associated with nor do we bill any insurance companies. This allows our clients to make their own decisions regarding their healing and not be dictated by their insurance. Shine will provide you with a specialized receipt (SuperBill) for you to submit to your insurance for out-of-network credit or reimbursement. Please read more about covering your care here.

    We are unable to accept clients using motor vehicle accident nor worker’s compensation insurance claims. The exception to this would be paying us directly and then submitting your claim to the motor vehicle insurance. Due to scheduling restrictions of our small clinic, Shine is generally not suitable for post-operative rehabilitation.

Shine is also home to independent contractor Concore Training for personal training after your physical therapy.