“As a former gymnast, cheerleader, and dancer, my desire is to provide custom-tailored, holistic, quality care to gymnasts, cheerleaders, dancers, and athletes in other related disciplines. Our goals are to help prevent injuries, decrease recovery time, prevent injury repercussions later in life, enhance sport performance, and empower young athletes to own their bodies, emotions, and performance teaching tools they can use for a happy, healthy, successful life.”
“Sports teach important life lessons and provide an opportunity to create amazing contributors to our world. It is a short time in most people’s life with a large impact. We have the opportunity to change the world one athlete at a time.”
Brandi Smith, PT, FAAOMPT, OCS
Owner & Physical Therapist Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy & Performance Training
e-mail: perfect10pt@gmail.com
As a former collegiate gymnast and movement specialist, with a wide range of certifications and trainings, Brandi takes a very unique holistic approach to the treatment of young athletes. She empowers athletes, families, and coaches to understand the body as a unique living interconnected system and how to apply this knowledge to excel at their sport and life. Brandi is a international clinician and sport science educator, speaking across the globe.
Brandi specializes in treating young athletes and all that comes with a growing active kid. She’s worked with various sports but has grown a special in working with gymnast, cheerleaders, dancers, figure skating, parkour, ninja warrior, acrobatics, circus arts, and yoga athletes. She has treated most everything over the course of her career from growth plate injuries to cartilage (osteochondral defects), from instability to impingements, from dislocations to post fracture recovery, from sprains to strains, pain the wrist, elbow, shoulder, ankle, knee, hip, back, and neck all while empowering & inspiring athletes to be the best version they can be.
Brandi is changing the culture of gymnastics and other related sports by giving coaches direction, athletes a voice, medical providers insight, and parents a choice. Creating a world of people full of dedication, desire, determination, perseverance, strength, inner will, physical abilities, health, wellness, awareness of their body and emotions, inner confidence and courage to speak up for themselves.
Credentials:
- USA Gymnastics National Health Care and Sport Science Referral Network
- Two Time USAG Collegiate National Champion gymnast for Texas Woman’s University
- B.S. in Kinesiology at TWU
- M.S. in Physical Therapy at Texas State University
- Fellowship trained orthopedic manual physical therapist
- Board certified orthopedic specialist
- Movement Systems Impairment trained
- Functional Movement Systems certified
- Founder of Perfect 10.0 Physical Therapy & Performance Training since 2008
- Medical director at USA Gymnastics National Congress since 2012
- Lecturer:
- Gymnastics Association of Texas since 2008
- Michigan State Congress since 2018
- Wisconsin State Gymnastics Education since 2018
- National Congress since 2011
- Regional Congress: Region 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 since 2013
- Medical staff for P&G National Championships in 2017, 2019
- Clinical Expert Contributor – United States Elite Coaching Association Journal since 2015
- Internationally Published: Examination and Physical Therapy Management of a Young Gymnast with Bilateral Wrist Pain: A Case Report. Physical Therapy in Sport, September 2017, volume 27
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