Dr. Kelsey Shumway, DPT founded Shift Physical Therapy with a specific clinical niche in mind: orthopedic physical therapy and pelvic floor rehabilitation, with particular depth in women's health and the postpartum return-to-sport pathway. The niche matters because Southern Utah's active population — runners, hikers, trail athletes, young mothers returning to weightlifting and endurance training — produces a patient population that standard outpatient PT clinics are not structured to serve at this clinical depth.
Her training runs through Utah State University for exercise science and Rocky Mountain University for her Doctor of Physical Therapy. She holds certification in dry needling, blood flow restriction training, and pregnancy and postpartum corrective exercise — a credential combination specific to her patient population — with her pelvic floor training completed through Herman and Wallace, the leading evidence-based pelvic floor continuing education organization in the country.
The clinical philosophy is fitness-forward: treatments are designed to get patients back to endurance running, weightlifting, snowboarding, or whatever they were doing before their injury or postpartum recovery stalled them. The practice operates from 446 S Mall Drive, Unit 3B, in South St. George, and accepts patients without a physician referral.
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