Our Approach
The teachers behind Dr. Adams' approach
Every clinician's approach is shaped by who they trained under. These are two of the people whose work Dr. Adams studied directly, and whose methods are still part of how patients are treated at SC Sports Therapy today.
Dr. Stuart McGill
Professor Emeritus of Spine Biomechanics, University of Waterloo
Dr. Stuart McGill spent decades researching how the spine actually works and fails, and his findings reshaped how back pain is assessed and treated worldwide. His research is the foundation for a movement-based, mechanism-first approach to back pain — finding the specific motion or position that's driving a patient's pain, rather than treating every back the same way.
In November 2019, Dr. Adams completed Backfitpro Inc.'s "Foundations for a Pain-Free Back" certification directly under Dr. McGill — a week-long program covering spine assessment and the McGill Method for identifying and correcting the mechanical cause of back pain. That framework is still part of how we assess every patient with back pain today.
Bonnie Prudden
Pioneer of Myotherapy and American Fitness (1914–2011)
Bonnie Prudden was one of the most influential figures in American fitness history. Her research in the 1950s on children's physical fitness helped spur the creation of the President's Council on Youth Fitness, and she went on to develop Myotherapy — a hands-on technique for locating and releasing trigger points to relieve muscle pain, built on her work alongside Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. Hans Kraus.
Dr. Adams is a certified Bonnie Prudden Myotherapist, having completed her training program directly under her — pictured here together in the fall of 1990. Trigger point work is still a core part of the hands-on treatment patients receive today, decades after that training.
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