Phoenix Manual Therapy Faculty
All faculty members with Phoenix Manual Therapy are clinicians whose expertise has been developed in the clinic. The intent is to deliver education in thoughtful clinical reasoning, legitimate manual therapy skills, and expertise in devising genuinely therapeutic exercise for the broad array of patients that arrive seeking physical therapy needs for musculoskeletal dysfunction. Our Educators are clinicians first and Incorporate Evidence in their practice without forgetting the need for clinical pragmatism in the Delivery of care to their patients.
Meet the Faculty:
Timothy Fearon, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT
Timothy Fearon received his PT degree from The Ohio State University. He completed the Musculoskeletal Sequence graduate program at Northwestern University. He completed his Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Northern Arizona University. While doing extensive long term study with the Folsom Physical Therapy group he founded Phoenix Manual Therapy, which initially offered courses, based on the Nordic System of orthopedic manual therapy. Phoenix Manual Therapy progressed to offering a long-term course frame for study of the Australian approach to orthopedic manual therapy with Barbara Stevens and Margaret Anderson. Norwegian technique was integrated with the lead of Dennis Morgan and a natural evolution of working to bring patients to independence led to the merging of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation to optimize the neurologic control of the musculoskeletal system. The course has been running over the last 40 years. He has participated as both a student and now lead instructor through out those years.
He earned his Full Fellowship status in the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Therapy by the challenge process in 1999, he successfully renewed that status in 2010. He has been specializing in orthopedic manual therapy and spinal rehabilitation for the last 40 years.
Dr. Fearon is adjunct faculty at A. T. Still University where he has taught manual therapy concepts as well as clinical instruction for the residency program. He has taught manual therapy courses across the country over the last 3 decades as well as fellowship instruction.
Tim lives with his prolific wife, Helene who continually pushes him to keep pace with her professionally. His daughter Madeline Rose and grand daughter Adelaide Rose Howe live in Salt Lake City with son-in-law Sean Howe the affable brilliant professor of theoretical math. His son Jack Francis lives in the valley of the sun with his wife Jenny and the irrepressible Jameson his grandson
Pablo has been in the clinical practice of Orthopedic Manual Therapy for 43 years. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Connecticut in 1982. He relocated to Northern California in 1986 to work in a variety of HMO settings that relied on the skill sets of Orthopedic Manual Therapy. He completed the Folsom Physical Therapy Long Term Orthopedic Manual Therapy course while he was in Northern California and returned to Arizona in 1989.
Pablo was an adjunct faculty member Grand Canyon University leading an introduction to Physical Therapy course from 1993-2001.
In 2001 Pablo founded White Tanks Physical Therapy and Orthopedic Rehabilitation, LLC; located in Goodyear, Arizona and has provided outpatient orthopedic manual therapy services to his community in the southwest valley of the sun since that time. Currently he is faculty for Phoenix Manual Therapy as well as the A.T. Still University Orthopedic Residency program.
Pablo is dedicated to educating the next generation of physical therapists and being a health recovery resource to his community.
Outside of the physical therapy world Pablo enjoys cycling, family time with his three children and four grandchildren. He has a particular fondness for spending his time on his favorite island of Puerto Rico where his family lineage originates.
Undergraduate School: Ferris State University
Graduate School: Midwestern University; Glendale, Arizona
Originally from Manistee, Michigan, Jenna moved to Arizona in 2008 for an internship opportunity after earning her Bachelor’s degree in Corporate Fitness/Wellness. She worked for five years in Corporate Fitness and Wellness before returning to school to pursue a career in physical therapy, earning her Doctorate degree from Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona.
Dedication to elevating her clinical practice standard through high quality, continuing education and mentoring led Jenna to Phoenix Manual Therapy where she has taken the long-term Orthopedic Manual Therapy courses with friend and mentor, Tim Fearon. Her approach to physical therapy affords patients a tailor-made experience that is unique to their individual presentation. She values patient first care and seeks to individualize all treatment plans addressing the specific needs and goals of each patient. This approach empowers the individual patient to take an active role in their healthcare developing independence from the health care system. Jenna stays connected to Midwestern University as an adjunct faculty member assisting in Orthopedic, Neurologic, and Clinical Competency courses.
Outside of physical therapy, Jenna loves spending time with family and friends, staying active with outdoor adventures, and traveling.
Phoenix Manual Therapy Mission Statement
Phoenix Manual Therapy was initiated to fill a void in physical therapy education for clinicians who are seeking development of clinical mastery. There are a myriad of educational avenues with educators and researchers at the helm. The knowledge is invaluable and the contributions are graciously respected. When the aspiration is for genuine clinical mastery there is no substitute for clinical experience and the tutelage of those who have honed their expertise in the clinic with the real world of patient presentation where effective treatment is expected now and variables are unlimited without allowances for exclusion nor reliance on theory.
All faculty members with Phoenix Manual Therapy are clinicians whose expertise has been developed in the clinic. The intent is to deliver education in thoughtful clinical reasoning, legitimate manual therapy skills, and expertise in devising genuinely therapeutic exercise for the broad array of patients that arrive seeking physical therapy needs for musculoskeletal dysfunction. The immediate goal is to enable those who seek clinical expertise to attain the necessary foundations, guidance, modifications and direction required to genuinely advance on the path of being capable of delivering that skill set rather than simply understanding it. The larger goal is to develop a broader reach of expert clinicians and thereby elevate the standard of the profession as a whole. We have been pursuing that goal since 1986 without deviation.
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Mentors Acknowledgement
No one attains mastery without tutelage and guidance from those who have walked a similar path seeking to attain expertise before them. The willingness of those mentors to share their earned wisdom allows those who follow them to stand on their proverbial shoulders and elevate the profession as a whole to a more substantive future.
I have been privileged to have world class mentoring and I am forever in debt to them. When I realized that to gain expertise in the clinic I needed to seek out clinical experts, I set out on a journey that took me to many doorsteps but some I latched onto and they to me, it has forever changed my life. There is no way to repay them other than doing the same for those who now seek that expertise from me with the same perseverance that I sought it from them. I hope to do this for the rest of my career and to leave some others empowered by my journey, to do the same for the next generation of genuine clinicians who will make a difference in peoples lives.
There are many who assisted me along the way but there are a few who became the foundation of my career. Without going on at great length about each of these people I want to recognize their contributions to me and to the field of orthopedic manual therapy.
Barbara Stevens
Barbara’s influence on me cannot be overstated. She completed both the 3 month program with Geoff Maitland and the year-long graduate program. By the time that we met each other I had developed a fair quantity of physical skills but she insisted that I make my most powerful attribute my mind. She immersed me in a clinical reasoning rigor showing me a focus that allowed anything that I had ever learned before or would from there forward to have dramatically enhanced value. Each of the skills I had worked to master would be used when it was most advantageous and left in the quiver when there was nothing for it to offer the case a hand. She is the only person I have ever known to use clinical reasoning while teaching as she recognized how different learners absorbed knowledge. She has been my primary mentor for over 40 years now and she continues to teach me as we teach others together.
Margaret Anderson
Margaret also completed the graduate program with Geoff Maitland. In tandem with Barbara they made certain that I did not stray from the mental discipline to do the basics with unfailing precision until that became a matter of course. In addition to honing the clinical reasoning process Margaret was consistent in making me consistent with recognizing the clarity of common clinical syndrome presentation. Seeing a young therapist with a great deal of Norwegian manual therapy background Margaret was also insistent on teaching me to soften my hands showing me time and time again that force wasn’t necessary but accuracy was. She too has been an influence for 40 years. Margaret passed away in 2023.
Dennis Morgan
Dennis has been the single biggest influence on my development of a bias to active participation in patient care. His experience in manual therapy is second to none. After training in Norway with Freddy Kaltenborn he stayed and practiced there prior to returning to the US and completing chiropractic school, but prior to either he had completed the PNF program with Maggie Knott. His creativity with devising exercise that was genuinely therapeutic for each case at hand was steeped in understanding PNF & analysis of the patient case in front of him. More than anyone he engendered the willingness to trust myself and create that which was necessary for the case in front of me. He too has been an influence for 40 years.
Michael Moore, Tim McGonigle & Don Torrey
Collectively this was the group, Folsom Physical Therapy, that gave me the necessary discipline to practice perfectly in the development of the Norwegian OMT skills that so formed their careers. They were the first group of genuinely expert clinicians whom I met when I abandoned the search for higher knowledge in academia & research. These both have their place but what I was seeking was not to write and not to teach but rather to excel in the clinic and these three were my 1st legitimate guides. Additionally it is through them that I met Dennis.
Geoffrey Maitland
While I only enjoyed the luxury of short term course work with Maitland he was the primary mentor for Barbara Stevens and Margaret Anderson and through them affected everything that I do in clinical practice and in teaching. My gratitude will be for a life time.
Freddy Kaltenborn & Olaf Evejenth
I also spent little time with Freddy but his influence on Dennis Morgan, Michael Moore, Tim McGonigle & Don Torrey affected my life quite directly through them. I had the luxury of spending 4 days a year with Olaf for a decade and his mastery of the Norwegian OMT skill set emerges in me in the clinic on a daily basis.
Colleagues & Mentees
No one goes forward with out peers to be pushed by in the clinic and students to be pushed by in teaching environments. I have immense gratitude to those who have and continue to fill those roles.
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