Dr. Kate Spencer and Dr. James Spencer founded Ajax Physical Therapy in Aspen, CO in 2017. We graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in 2006. From 2007 to 2016, Kate and James worked in Aspen during the winter, but all across the United States during the summer gaining experience working with a tremendous variety of individuals, cultures, and medical complexities. We have worked in elite sports and with the most complicated and frail of medical populations. We are Board Certified Orthopaedic Clinical Specialists (OCS), but our unusually wide range of experiences in traditional home health, acute, and sub-acute care help us to expertly serve individuals with a broad range of injuries and conditions. In addition, we each serve in roles Nationally with the American Physical Therapy Association which keeps us practicing at the very forefront of the Physical Therapist profession.
In 2016, we settled fulltime in Aspen, started Ajax Physical Therapy, and we now have two young girls. We believe in treatment centered around a hands-on approach and individualized exercise in any recovery and are trained in dry needling and blood flow restriction training. We look forward to learning your story and helping you recovery and get back to action from whatever is limiting you.
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 uphilling, 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, and I am currently authoring a course for PTs on ski injuries which is scheduled for international publication in 2023.
(970) 924-0490
I started my career in sports medicine as a PT student working with the Boston Celtics. After a short stint working in Burlington, VT. I set out on the road as a traveling physical therapist with Kate for 10 years, across 7 states.
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 without pain.
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 18,000 musculoskeletal PT Members.
(970) 924-0520