Elite Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Living with pain can be miserable, whether from an accident or a sports injury. A metro business is showing people how to regain their lives through healing that lasts. Physical therapy is a comprehensive process. Without follow through patients often don't "stay" better. That's why the folks at Elite Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy say they want to be a cut above the rest.

“I think that there are a lot of facilities in Kansas City and around the country that are real good quality,” says founder and owner, Biagio Mazza. “But I really wanted to have a facility that was absolutely the best quality.”

Mazza opened Elite two and a half years ago in South Kansas City. Their growth and success have exceeded his projections time and time again. They work with patients and clients of all ages, treating all sorts of pain.

Stephanie Nicholson, a physical therapist, joined Elite last year. She's established a wellness side of the business to continue the good habits patients learn during physical therapy or rehab. “They wanted to know 'How do I lift weights properly?' 'How do I start an exercise program?' Or 'I play golf on the weekends, but I still have pain when I play golf,’” Nicholson says.

Both Mazza and Nicholson say too often, people live with chronic pain when they really don't have to. “To come in and say 'I'm 50-years old, so it's normal for me to have this leg pain,’” Mazza says. “That's not necessarily the case. It just takes a lot of education on our part.

The Elite team works with their clients to show them simple adjustments for use in their every day life that can actually give them their lives back. Sometimes that means getting outside the facility. “I'll actually go out and watch them, let's say in their golf game and their golf swing,” Nicholson says. “And we can point out now, the transition of how to fire the muscles appropriately. So that they don't have pain when they play.”

With some impressive success, the folks at Elite Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy say, sure, it would be great to expand, or open another location. They just want to keep their patient care philosophy at the center of whatever they do.

For more information, visit their website.