Our Team
Neha Shah
MPT CYT: Owner and Founder of Back To Center PT
Neha Shah, MPT, CYT graciously serves the Santa Monica and Westside community with experienced, considerate care at Back To Center PT. As a master of physical therapy, certified yoga teacher and yoga therapist, and credentialed Graston Technique® provider, Neha provides a unique, nurturing approach for her clients. Her dedication to your recovery starts with a thorough evaluation and personalized treatment plan. She supports you with superior hands-on care and counsel and encourages you to take a participatory role in your own self-care.
Neha combines yoga therapy techniques with her kinesiology knowledge to provide safe, effective treatments. She helps restore proper flow and function in the body with targeted yoga moves and meditation.
As a mom, Neha takes a special interest in treating prenatal and postnatal women. She experienced the positive effects of yoga from her own childbirth. Yoga therapy helps reduce the aches and pains of pregnancy, strengthens women for labor, and accelerates recovery following delivery. Neha is passionate about sharing yoga therapy’s empowering results. With her extensive knowledge and background in anatomy and kinesiology as a physical therapist and spiritual knowledge of the ancient art and science of Yoga, Neha provides a safe and natural environment to heal from injury and chronic pain.
Neha is passionate about her work and the safe, natural environment for healing that she’s created at her practice. Sign up for a session with Neha by calling Back To Center PT or booking an appointment online today.
During her free, you will find Neha hiking in the Santa Monica mountains, practicing yoga and meditation, enjoying sunsets at the beach and cooking up a feast for her friends and family.
Laurie Hubbard
MPT
Laurie Hubbard Combredet has practiced physical therapy for over two decades. She received her Physical Therapy graduate degree in 1995 from Columbia University in New York City where she lived and worked prior to moving to California. Over the years Laurie has worked in many different settings from hospital based acute care and rehabilitation units to home care, but she has practiced most often and is happiest in the outpatient clinic environment.
Laurie’s approach to physical therapy treatment is holistic and she believes that treating an injury or physical dysfunction requires an analysis of the whole person, their movement patterns and their lifestyle. In the typical evaluation an analysis is made of areas of hypo or hypermobility. This is followed by a specific manual treatment to these areas to “loosen that which is hypomobile and stabilize that which is hypermobile”.
Laurie uses a variety of tools in order to achieve results including:
Soft tissue mobilization/ Myofascial Release
Cupping/ Graston Technique
Kinesiotaping
Lower extremity, core and scapular stability exercises
Foam roller self soft tissue mobilization techniques
During her free time, Laurie enjoys biking along the beach, walking her dogs and exploring the LA food scene.
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