Here at Elevation Wellness we have three major areas of concentration. Our services reflect these three areas of specialization. Below you’ll find each of our services with detailed information regarding the service, the pricing and the ability for you to set an appointment with either Dr. Patty or Tom.
Dr. Patty Stott DPT, PT, MS, ATC, CHT and Tom Stott, MS, CSCS are both trained in functional medicine and specialize in working within certain patient populations to offer individualized, specific, researched care. While they both have backgrounds in physical therapy, this is not a physical therapy appointment. To book a PT session, please see below.
Dr. Patty Stott works primarily with the highly sensitive patient, patients with Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder/Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Dysautonomia, and underlying co-infections as mentioned above.
Tom’s background as a coach in working with people with complex medical histories, along with his skills as a biomechanics expert, help him meet patients where they currently are in regard to movement. He also works with our aspiring endurance athletes (both with and without connective tissue issues) looking to improve overall health.
Health and wellness coaching does not replace guided medical treatment and is meant to be used concurrently alongside your medical plan. These sessions are not intended to be diagnostic, and any suggested courses of action should be discussed with your medical team.
As this is not a physical therapy service, superbills cannot be provided to submit to your insurance company.
Health & Wellness Coaching is designed to uncover the “why” of disease in looking at the “whole” of a person. It looks for and addresses the possible upstream causes of illness and influences the downstream effects.
Through lifestyle management, we consider every aspect of your life that contributes to your health and well being, from what you put into your body to your sleep, activity, and even thought patterns.
Using this information, we create an individualized plan designed to get you back in balance.
It’s like hitting the reset button on your health.
There really isn’t a “typical” plan in Health & Wellness Coaching because we are individualized in our focus. You’re seen as an individual with unique needs.
In your initial session, we will dive into your personal story, informed by your intake paperwork, and expanded upon through conversation.
We’ll go over options for lifestyle adjustments that could improve your health, and discuss ways you can implement those changes.
During subsequent sessions, we’ll review how you’re doing (physically and emotionally) and make any necessary adjustments to your plan. From time to time, it might be helpful to order one or more tests to shed more light on your specific issues. If so, we’ll go over what tests are recommended and why, and we will help you make decisions about whether and how to get them done.
In speaking with many of our patients, we recognize the need to bridge the connection between some of our patients and their families & caregivers. Having lived with a spouse and raised kids with Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Tom offers a coaching session to help explain the unique roles a family member and caregiver can play in facilitating growth and intentional support for their loved ones.
Allow Tom to speak with members of your family, your loved ones, or anybody that interacts with you either in-office or virtually. He will share accounts of situations he’s been in and will be able to offer a unique insight to empathy.
***This is not a counseling session, nor should it take the place of a professional therapy session.***
In order for any intervention to be successful, the input and action must come from both provider and client. This includes active participation on the part of the client to implement strategies and ideas. We recognize that our clients frequently have low bandwidth by the time they reach our office, and it may be difficult to act on any suggestions.
We strive to work with patients on pacing, helping them take small steps, especially when feeling overwhelmed.
Health & Wellness Coaching can be effective because it is thorough. Your overall health can be influenced by many factors. Topics that could be addressed include (but are not limited to): inflammatory triggers, sleep, exercise, stress relief, and general lifestyle habits.
Depending on the needs of the client, a referral to a specialist may be made for an optimal outcome.
Our specialties lie in two areas:
Connective tissue issues (further influenced by those with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Disorder, Autonomic Dysfunction, underlying co-infections and/or exposures such as mold, tick borne illnesses, and other chronic viral infections)
Endurance athletes looking to enhance their health + wellness regimen for more efficient training and better results
That said, we welcome all who are ready to take an active role in their healing, and we coach each of our clients with the same high level of individualized care.
Dr. Patty’s PT treatment sessions are primarily manual-therapy-based with an extensive background in standard orthopedic physical therapy approaches combined with education in visceral manipulation, neural manipulation, craniosacral therapy, strategies to calm the autonomic nervous system, myofascial techniques, and fascial counterstrain. The type of manual techniques needed for each patient is determined by the exploring the body’s fascial system and organ function through whole body listening methods.
These PT sessions are not in any way combined with Health & Wellness Coaching. If you are looking for guidance in that space, please book a separate session above accordingly.
Tom’s Personal Training sessions are structured through the lenses of strength and stability, with an extensive background in corrective exercise, aerobic conditioning, and metabolic health.
Dr. Patty specializes in the neurovascular clinical presentation of connective tissue pathology, including but not limited to: Upper Cervical Instability, Tethered Cord, Vascular Compressions, Chiari Malformation, and Intracranial Pathologies.
Tom specializes in biomechanics, with a particular knack for discovering contributing factors to chronic and ongoing issues within the body.
As an office policy, we do not take or participate with any insurance companies. All of our services are cash-based.
For PT sessions with Dr. Patty, upon request, a superbill can be generated, but this is not guarantee of reimbursement. While the superbill will include appropriate CPT coding, it should be noted that the minutes from the session will not be itemized – our system does not have the capacity to do so.
We cannot provide superbills for Personal Training Sessions with Tom nor can his services be submitted to insurance companies for reimbursement.
