Spencer Wilbert, DPT
Welcome,
My name is Spencer Wilbert, and I am a Doctor of Physical Therapy. I earned a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Delaware in 2014 and completed my DPT at Rutgers University in 2018 with a 4.0 GPA. I maintain credentials as a Certified Mulligan Practitioner and an LSVT BIG provider. I have spent my career in orthopedics, treating people with neurological disease to back pain, through professional athlete rehabilitation and everywhere in between.
In my practice I see people that are overwhelmed by information when they try to understand what is happening to them physically. Google searches, anecdotes from friends, all of it can seem a few degrees off from what ails them, and leaves them confused or concerned. I find that one of the most powerful things that I can do for my clients is help them understand the nature of the human body and how it relates to injury, pain, or dysfunction. Promoting understanding enables a client to take ownership of their condition and participate in a safe solution. It allows them to focus on movement-based solutions they can rely on daily. More Than Tight aims to help everyone know that there isn’t a perfect stretch, undiscovered muscle, or magic bullet exercise that will solve all your problems. Instead, the power is in understanding how the muscle, joint and nerve relationships in your body like to interact with each other to stay pain free. It’s a process, and we will cover it a few steps at a time, together.
I am bringing this blog forward as a way to promote learning about how the body can develop pain or dysfunction, and stay out of it. The more you learn, the more you understand the machine, and the more you can keep it running. More Than Tight will take what I read, experience and practice each day and present it to you in a dependable, research driven frame. I want you to be able to count on the posts in this blog as a source of expert explanations and practical solutions for questions that you may have about physical therapy, pain sources, and healthy movement. More Than Tight is here to guide learning about your body instead of giving you a, “one move you must do to eliminate blank” pitch. Our bodies are more nuanced than that, so you deserve more nuanced information.
These posts cannot and are not designed to replace examination or treatment from a healthcare professional. They are educational in nature and cannot capture your individuality completely. With that being said, please stop here at regular intervals to have a chance to learn something new about your physical being and how that understanding alone can help you get on the road to recovery.
