Helping Movement Professionals Integrate Nervous System Strategies with Biomechanics to Maximize Client Outcomes
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Feel at a loss when working with clients who’ve been in pain for months, or even years? You’re not alone.
As a movement professional, you’ve likely seen it: clients stuck in persistent pain, doing all the things, but still not progressing. Dr. Mary found (with herself and with her clients) that real change doesn’t come from pushing harder or chasing protocols, It comes from learning how the body and nervous system actually work.
When we understand anatomy & physiology (especially the nervous system and fascial systems), patterns of protection, and the emotional undercurrents beneath pain, we can help clients shift in a way that’s sustainable and transformative.
This is about giving you the tools to guide clients back into their bodies, not just through sets and reps, but through awareness, regulation, and real connection.
There’s no magic fix. But there is a better way and it doesn’t require throwing your clinical reasoning or integrity out the window.
About Dr. Mary Grimberg PT, DPT, OCS
Dr. Mary Grimberg is an orthopedic and pelvic floor physical therapist, and educator with over 14 years of experience. She’s board certified in orthopedics, a former orthopedic residency faculty member, and has mentored clinicians across various stages of their careers. Her work blends advanced biomechanical training with Eastern medicine principles to create lasting change, especially in clients who feel stuck in cycles of pain despite doing “all the right things.”
After going through 20 years of pelvic pain, chronic fatigue, and her own journey with cancer and complex PTSD, Mary saw firsthand what’s missing from traditional rehab. The real breakthroughs didn’t happen until she stopped compartmentalizing physical, emotional, and soul healing and started integrating them. Now, she helps other health and fitness professionals do the same.
Dr. Mary teaches health and fitness professionals how to move beyond protocols and symptom chasing, and instead, decode what the body is truly asking for. Her approach helps clinicians see the full story behind chronic stress, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation, because surface-level strategies only go so far when the root cause goes deeper than mechanics..
Dr. Mary’s work is inspired by the groundbreaking contributions of Gabor Maté, Peter Levine, Brené Brown, Bessel van der Kolk, Lorimer Moseley, Florence Scovel Shinn and Eastern medicine principles which have been practiced for thousands of years. This has helped her bridge the gap between what she knew as a physical therapist and what she felt as a human who had lived through chronic pain, cPTSD and cancer. Even with the most up-to-date orthopedic knowledge, she saw that pain wasn’t fully explained by biomechanics alone, which led her to blend trauma-informed care, somatic awareness, and emotional healing into her physical therapy practice.
Through continuing education, mentorship, and patient care at ResilientRx in Austin, TX, Dr. Mary helps health and fitness professionals become the kind of provider clients in chronic pain are searching for, and wish they’d found sooner.
Check out the TMI Talk with Dr. Mary Podcast!
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"TMI Talk with Dr. Mary" was previously known as "Sex and Wellness with Dr. Mary"