Health Blog Category: Multidisciplinary Team
Kyle Hop
Kyle was born and raised in Midland, Michigan. After graduating from Dow High School, he attended Michigan State University and graduated in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. In his free time, Kyle likes to weight lift and enjoys attending sporting events with his family and friends.
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Amanda Harvey
Amanda Harvey graduated from Mid Michigan College in 2013 with an Associates Degree in Physical Therapy. She has 7+ Years experience working in the outpatient rehabilitation setting with a wide range of experience in orthopedics, athletes, geriatrics, balance, and aquatics. Throughout her career she has developed and advanced her skills in manual therapy with focus on joint mobilization techniques, myofascial release, trigger point release through movement, and muscle energy techniques. Treating patients with compassion and empathy is very important to her.
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Robert attended Delta College’s Health & Fitness Specialist program and has been working in the fitness industry for over 5 years as a Personal Trainer. He has a passion for helping people overcome injuries and chronic pain to get back to leading an active lifestyle they enjoy.
In his spare time he enjoys working out and taking on different physical challenges, hiking, cooking, and continuing to learn more about health & wellness.
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Jen grew up in Saginaw then attended Central Michigan University where she received her degree in Athletic Training/Sports Medicine. After college, she was a head athletic trainer in the secondary school setting down in the metro Detroit area before moving back up to the tri-cities area to work as the head athletic trainer at the high school she attended. She has been working in sports rehab for 17 years as an athletic trainer and now looks forward to using her talents as a stretch therapist.
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Dr. Tim has been a licensed chiropractor for the past 13 years following his graduation from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. Before grad school he played one year of baseball on scholarship at Wayne State University before transferring to Michigan State University to obtain his bachelors degree. He was raised in the chiropractic lifestyle being that his father, grandfather, uncle and sister were all chiropractors as well and all graduated from Palmer College.
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Kelly Gross is a licensed Physical Therapist Assistant and stretch therapist and has been with Midland Sports Rehab since October 2021. She received her Associates Degree in Physical Therapy from Macomb Community College in 2003. In her 18+ year career she has worked with several types of clients, including geriatrics, pediatrics, athletes and fall prevention programs. Kelly loves to work with athletes and be able to push them to their full potential, helping them return to full function.
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Elizabeth grew up in Hemlock. After graduating high school, she attended college for a year and then found a passion for massage therapy while attending the Flint Institute of Massage Therapy. Elizabeth graduated as a Certified Massage Therapist in December of 2003. She always knew she wanted to be helping people and has been able to do so through massage therapy. In 2016 she started working for Midland Sports Rehab where she has been able to apply her love for massage not only on athletes but anyone dealing with muscular issues.
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Sam grew up in Bay City, shortly after graduating from high school she moved to Colorado. After working and attending school for a little over a year, she returned to the tri-city area to pursue a career in massage therapy. She graduated as a Certified Medical Massage Therapist from the Flint Institute of Massage Therapy in December 2009. She became licensed through the state of Michigan in 2014 and continues to expand her knowledge and education in the massage therapy field, recently receiving her certification in Manual Lymphatic Drain Massage.
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Wellness Coordinator, Running Technique Specialist, Lead Stretch Specialist and Athletic Trainer
Mary grew up in West Branch, MI and is a graduate of Central Michigan University’s Athletic Training/Sports Medicine Program. She brings 10+ years of professional clinical experience as an Athletic Trainer to Midland Sports Rehab and has been working in the chiropractic and outpatient rehabilitation setting with us since 2016. Mary spent several years as the Head Athletic Trainer in the secondary school setting in the Chicagoland area while also assisting orthopedic physicians in the clinical setting. She specializes in working with all types of athletes but has focused her training the last several years on preventing and treating running injuries. Mary earned her certification as a Running Technique Specialist and enjoys running herself. Since coming to work at Midland Sports Rehab, Mary has successfully implemented outreach athletic training services to community athletic programs and continues to bring awareness to the need for injury prevention and early intervention with sports-related injuries in our community.
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