Advanced Physical Therapy

The year is 1983 — February 1^st, to be exact. 7 months before meeting Athena, I had founded InnerAsia, an adventure travel company taking interested ‘trekkers’ into the moutain areas of Tibet, Nepal and many other countries in both Africa and Asia. I had just returned from China where I had obtained that years permits to climb as well as trek in areas of those countries not yet opened to the ‘normal’ traveler. When I returned from the trip — on January 17^th, I realized I had gained 15 pounds and being in very good shape, I was determined to loose that weight immediately. A friend suggested Dexatrim — ‘safe, effective and caffeine free’ — I suffered a cerebral aneurysm burst. This left me partially paralized on my left side and after 8 months in the hospital, I was blessed beyond words to find Athena. With her guidance and very hard work I was able to walk again!
I cannot recommend any physical therapist more highly than Athena. As has been mentioned, her attention and care for her patients (friends in the end) is beyond description.
If you have the good fortune to decide that Athena will be your guide, teacher and trainer — you could not have made a more perfect decision!!!
These are many moons later and I still attribute my physical abilities now to her help.
We both worked in harmony and not without me hollaring on a rare occasion (it was uncomfortable to undo a paralysis for me)… you will be successful if you listen and work hard!!!
THANK YOU, ATHENA — THESE NOW 31 YEARS LATER!!!
(can you believe how time has flown… you must be a grandmohter by now!!! grin…
Palms joined from the North Carolina Pines…
Jo Sanders

I won’t go into any stunning detail because the previous reviews do the job, but Athena is one of those rare therapists that does not just go through the motions. She really gets in and figures out the root of your problem. She is the only person that can get release from my low back and sacrum area; everyone else just feels what’s going on back there and moves on. I actually found out that she shared an office with another amazing PT that I used to see in Colorado and she said that she learned a lot from him. Wonderful therapy if you can afford it.

After tumbling down the American River on the fourth of July and being dragged and bounced off boulders I was feeling rougher than the rounded rocks that bruised and battered my poor body.
Then, going to what was jokingly called a «sports medicine» clinic down on the peninsula for some help, where a hard-​hearted surgeon dismissed me with no reassuring words nor treatment save vicodin and anti-​inflammatory meds though I couldn’t sleep for the pain. An x-​ray was taken, there was nothing broken, «here are some drugs, come back if you still hurt in two weeks, goodbye» was the sum of the advice from that famous clinic.
Later, on a friend’s recommendation Athena Kyle, saw me, figured out what she thought was causing the pain, laid some healing hands on me, applied a short burst of ultrasound, gave some good practical advice about activity and sent me away feeling better within 18 hours. After nearly two weeks of not sleeping this was an amazing relief.
Athena is smart, engaged, caring, pragmatic and a terrific person. I remain in her debt for returning me to functioning near normal again.
Thanks Ms. Kyle!