Still in pain—even after trying everything?
Evidence-based online and in person physical therapy for people who haven’t found answers anywhere else.
Work with me in person in Bellingham, over telehealth or online from anywhere.
You’ve tried rest. Stretching. Maybe even physical therapy.
If your pain keeps coming back, moves around, flares for no obvious reason, or hasn’t improved with traditional treatment, there may be more to the problem than the painful body part.
Hi, I'm Kim Burns, a Physical Therapist in Bellingham, Washington.
I help people with chronic pain, joint hypermobility, and movement challenges get back to the activities they love. I teach people how to understand their pain, restore movement, and build lasting strength using evidence-based methods with my patients every day.
Not located in Washington? You may still be able to work with me through coaching. Coaching is educational and supportive and is not physical therapy or medical treatment.
Physical Therapy • Pain Reprocessing Therapy • Movement & Strength Rehabilitation
Using a neuro-physical approach, I look at the whole picture—not just where it hurts. We’ll work on breathing, movement retraining, and whole-body mechanics to help your body move and function more efficiently.
Together, we’ll build practical skills and personalized strategies to help you reduce pain, move with more confidence, rebuild strength, and get back to the activities you enjoy.
Chronic pain is more than a damaged body part.
For many people, chronic pain continues even when there is no ongoing tissue damage. Your nervous system can become overly protective, making normal movement and sensations feel painful or threatening.
I teach you how to restore movement, calm an overprotective nervous system, and rebuild strength using evidence-based physical therapy.
Instead of simply treating where it hurts, we work on the systems that keep you from moving and feeling your best.
Kim’s Approach
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Sports medicine looks at the whole movement system like an engine. Pain arises due to a failure in the system; an under functioning part of the whole. Where the pain is showing up and how it is showing up does not necessarily mean that that is what or where the problem is. We get the right muscles to do the right jobs in the right alignment with the right coordination. Neuromuscular system synergy with fascial chain length balanced with optimal stabilizer capacity to support your desired levels of physical activity and feel comfortable and good in your body. If you have an alignment issue in the car that caused abnormal tire wear you don’t just change the tires, you fix the alignment. The same is with our bodies, abnormal loading patterns cause abnormal joint wear and tension patterns due to uneven distribution of loads and forces through the whole system.
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Our movement patterns are like a computer programs; they can develop bugs or errors over our life time. Stress, bad posture or movement habits, trauma, avoidance patterns, learned perceptions and reactions to pain can also influence these patterns as well. Harnessing the power of the brain, we can Debug, reprogram dysfunctional patterns, plug them back into the system and then run the whole system clean.
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Kim’s practice methods are derived primarily from
the latest published research. Kim regularly reads peer reviewed published studies related to the latest diagnostic and treatment methods in the field of orthopedic PT, chronic pain, HSD, and neuroplastic pain
Functional Movement Systems. Kim is a certified practitioner
Pain Reprocessing for Neuroplastic pain syndromes / nervous system sensitization influences and vagus nerve tone dysfunction
EDS society best practices. Kim regularly participates their conferences for learning the latest updates in diagnosis and treatment of: genetic connective tissue disorders / hypermobile spectrum disorders / EDS / PEM CFS and long COVID
Can’t Make it in Person?
Learn the same movement, strength, and nervous system strategies I teach my patients every day.
Learn through my step-by-step online programs used by patients across the country.
Chronic Pain
Hypermobility
Strength
Posture and Body Mechanics
Flexibility
Our Services
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Traditional Physical Therapy
One on one sessions with the physical therapist. In person and online physical therapy appointments available.
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Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Kim Burns DPT OCS is a certified Pain Reprocessing Therapist through the Pain Reprocessing Therapy Center. In person and online pain reprocessing therapy are available!
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Group Classes
We are pleased to offer small group classes for those who cannot make it for traditional PT visits during regular clinic hours and themed work shops to learn more about healthy movement to prevent injury or increase functional performance of your desired physical activity. Small group wellness classes and workshops are offered in the fall, winter and spring
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