Amy Morris, MSPT, CYT, PRC, BSPTS, CNPT

Amy Morris, MSPT, CYT, PRC, BSPTS, CNPT Physical Therapist | Ahimsa Therapeutics Amy Morris is a physical therapist with more than 30 years of clinical experience specializing in the treatment of complex musculoskeletal and connective tissue-related conditions. She has particular expertise working with individuals with hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, scoliosis, osteoporosis, chronic pain, dysautonomia/POTS, gastrointestinal dysfunction, and abdominal vascular compression syndromes. Many of her clients have overlapping conditions or persistent symptoms that have not responded to more traditional approaches. Amy earned her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in 1992. Early in her career, she recognized that complex patients rarely fit neatly into a single diagnosis or treatment approach. This began a lifelong commitment to advanced continuing education and a systems-based approach to rehabilitation. Her extensive training includes scoliosis-specific rehabilitation, Postural Restoration, advanced manual therapy, visceral, neural and vascular manipulation, Fascial Counterstrain, craniosacral and myofascial techniques, osteoporosis and bone-health rehabilitation, yoga, Pilates, and somatic movement approaches. She has also pursued advanced education in functional and integrative health, including herbal medicine, to deepen her understanding of the complex clients she treats. Amy's approach combines skilled manual therapy with movement retraining, breathing and pressure regulation, postural and biomechanical assessment, nervous-system regulation, and progressive strengthening. Rather than treating an isolated painful joint or simply correcting a movement, she looks for the relationships among the connective tissue, nervous system, respiration, circulation, gastrointestinal system, and kinetic chain that may be contributing to the person's symptoms and movement strategies. Amy also has a particular clinical and educational interest in the intersection of connective tissue disorders, gastrointestinal dysfunction, autonomic dysregulation, respiratory mechanics, and abdominal compression syndromes, including MALS, SMAS, Nutcracker syndrome, and May-Thurner syndrome. She is co-author of Beyond the Gut: Understanding the Connections Between the Digestive, Vascular, Nervous, and Connective Tissue Systems. Amy is known for approaching complicated presentations as a puzzle rather than viewing the patient as “difficult.” She believes that when someone is not responding to treatment, clinicians should continue asking what may be missing and how the treatment plan can better meet that individual's physiology, goals, and capacity. Clinical areas of focus include: hypermobility and EDS/HSD; scoliosis; osteoporosis and bone health; chronic and persistent pain; dysautonomia/POTS; complex gastrointestinal dysfunction and abdominal compression syndromes; breathing and pressure-regulation dysfunction; complex biomechanics and movement-pattern retraining; and advanced manual therapy. Her philosophy is simple: understand the whole person, give them better movement options, and help them build the capacity to do more of what matters to them.