We narrowed our focus on purpose. Hip impingement, labral tears, pelvic floor dysfunction, the cases that need more than fifteen minutes and a generic protocol. That focus is why our patients finally get answers.
Early in my career I kept seeing the same person. Active, driven, doing everything right, and still hurting. Not because they weren't trying. Because no one had ever taken the time to listen, connect the dots, or give them a real explanation.
No clear strategy. No actual hope. Just more exercises and more confusion. Dismissed. Frustrated. Quietly wondering if this was just their life now.
Those patients are why On Pointe exists. We could have built a bigger clinic. We chose to build a better one, because those people didn't just need to get out of pain. They needed to understand their body, trust it again, and build something strong enough to last. If that sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
Jenna trained as a dancer long before she trained as a physical therapist. She knows what it feels like to be told you cannot do the thing you love. Her career rests on one belief: the person on the table deserves a real answer.
After earning her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Nazareth College in 2011, Jenna worked with The Rochester City Ballet, Garth Fagan Dance Company, and the Eastman School of Music. Treating professional dancers taught her how to assess movement at the highest level. It also exposed the limits of the insurance-based PT model for patients with complex hip or dance injuries.
In 2016, Jenna opened On Pointe Wellness and Rehab in Northern Virginia. The mission was clear from day one: give patients the time, depth, and long-term planning the standard healthcare system would not allow.
Today, Jenna serves on the Board of Directors for the Manassas Ballet Theatre and sits on the advisory board for Doctors for Dancers. Her professional memberships include the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. She is also the author of Hip Impingement to Hope, a book for patients who want real solutions to chronic hip pain without surgery.
Most of all, Jenna is the PT most patients find after years of being passed between providers without an actual answer. The work is straightforward: a careful intake, a thorough movement assessment, a plain-language explanation, and a real plan to move forward.
Hip Impingement to Hope is for patients who want a real path forward without surgery.
DPT from Mary Baldwin University. BFA in Dance and Choreography from VCU. Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach. Toured with a Broadway musical. Specializes in orthopedics, dry needling, and dance medicine.
DPT from Shenandoah University. Certified Functional Nutrition Informed Professional and Pre/Post-Natal Coach. Orthopedic care with a strong women's health focus, plus dry needling.
Melissa is a licensed nutritionist and current professional ballet dancer. She holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and is a Certified Nutrition Specialist®. She specializes in dance-specific nutrition coaching that supports energy, stamina, recovery, and long-term well-being, grounded in balance, body respect, and real-life strategies dancers can actually use.
Emily is a lifelong dancer with 10 years of competitive training in Northern Virginia. She had her own arthroscopic repair in high school, so she is no stranger to what it feels like to be in the patient's shoes.
Every appointment is sixty minutes with a Doctor of Physical Therapy completely focused on you. No rotating rooms. No aide handing you a band and a printout while your PT sees someone else. That is the standard we built this clinic around, and we don't compromise on it.
Your first visit is mostly conversation and assessment. We want to hear the full story, not just where it hurts, but how long, what you've tried, what's been dismissed, and what you're actually trying to get back to. Then we watch how your body moves under load. By the end of that hour you'll have a plain-language explanation of what's going on and a clear place to start.
Every plan we build follows the same four phases: calm, optimize, rebuild, elevate. Not visit to visit. Not symptom to symptom. A clear process with a clear purpose at every stage. During each follow-up, your PT focuses on what matters most to you and the things you can't do on your own (hands-on care, movement retraining, real-time feedback). Then you leave with a plan to follow between sessions, so you're making progress all week, not just during your hour with us.
We are an out-of-network clinic, on purpose. Insurance dictates session length, visit frequency, and which treatments get reimbursed. Those rules are written for the average patient with the average problem.
Our patients are rarely average. They are dancers, runners, mothers, lifters, and active women already failed by the average plan. We removed insurance from the equation so the plan fits the actual patient on the table.
Most new patients begin with a chat or a discovery call. Use the chat bubble and message the clinic right now, or book a free 15-minute discovery call. We listen to your story and tell you straight whether we can help. No pressure, no pitch.