Dr. Kate Spencer and Dr. James Spencer founded Ajax Physical Therapy in Aspen, CO in 2017. They graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in 2006. From 2007 to 2016, Kate and James worked in Aspen during the winter, and in various locations across the United States in the summer. They have experience in a wide variety of settings from elite sports to medically complex individuals and both are Board Certified Orthopaedic Clinical Specialists (OCS). In addition, they each serve Nationally with the American Physical Therapy Association which keeps them practicing at the very forefront of the Physical Therapist profession.
In 2016, James and Kate settled fulltime in Aspen and started Ajax Physical Therapy. Treatment centers around a hands-on approach, individualized exercises, and often includes dry needling and blood flow restriction training.
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I started my physical therapy career in Maine working for a private practice that specializes in post-professional therapist education, manual therapy, and treating the US Ski Team. Afterwards, I took on travel therapy for 10 years treating people of all ages, cultures, and medical acuity across the country.
I believe hands-on treatment
I started my physical therapy career in Maine working for a private practice that specializes in post-professional therapist education, manual therapy, and treating the US Ski Team. Afterwards, I took on travel therapy for 10 years treating people of all ages, cultures, and medical acuity across the country.
I believe hands-on treatment improves the effectiveness of injury-specific exercises in any recovery. I have advanced training in many different manual therapy techniques as well as dry needling. I use current research and best-practice models in selecting treatment for my clients. My primary goal is to choose techniques that are effective and easy for clients to incorporate into their already busy lives.
I love spending time with my family and exploring the outdoors. I dabble in competitive up-hilling, cross country ski racing, and running, but also love baking and reading a good book. I serve several positions in Colorado and nationally for the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), and I recently was the lead author on an APTA course for PTs about treating and preventing ski injuries.
(970) 924-0490
I started my career in sports medicine, working near the icy ski slopes of Northern Vermont. Later, I set out on the road as a traveling physical therapist with Kate for 10 years, across 7 states working in a variety of settings from big city hospitals to rural home health.
Manual therapy and exercise are central to most of my treatments.
I started my career in sports medicine, working near the icy ski slopes of Northern Vermont. Later, I set out on the road as a traveling physical therapist with Kate for 10 years, across 7 states working in a variety of settings from big city hospitals to rural home health.
Manual therapy and exercise are central to most of my treatments. In addition, I often include dry needling and blood flow restriction training (BFR) which is a technique to produce more strength faster while using light resistance. My passion is to help you get back to doing all the things you want at the highest possible level, and to help you avoid surgery and injections whenever possible.
Skiing is my passion in the winter. In the summer, I enjoy running, hiking, open water swim races, and camping with my family.
Much of the rest of my free time is spent volunteering in national leadership positions within the American Physical Therapy Association. I currently serve as Vice President of APTA's Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy - the national body representing 16,000 musculoskeletal PT Members.
(970) 924-0520