I thought I enjoyed treating patients.

And then I started teaching doctoral students how to treat patients.

And then my world exploded when I started treating patients like I was teaching doctoral students.

The success and progress of my patients soared the more I treated them like those students.

The work came alive.

I decided that is how I want to spend my days. Teaching.

I stepped out of the conventional health care limitations in order to provide the highest quality experience I can, creating power, quality movement, and sustainable changes.

Give someone a fish and they eat for a day.
But if you teach them how to fish…

The more I was able to help people understand human mechanics and muscle balance, how to perform specific exercises and use specific tools, the more they were able to benefit; transforming their entire experience.

Patients off the street were learning the concepts, making changes for themselves, and retaining the what’s and how’s –
Breaking out of the healthcare dependency (have a problem, have the expert work on you and give you exercise, repeated visits…).

The more they understood how I did my job, the more they could do for themselves.

Growth and possibility, far beyond their time with me.

The tools (biomechanics) and the know-how (clinical decision-making skills) to create their own resilient changes.

We were breaking the dependence on ‘experts’ and the healthcare system.

– And –

That integration of teaching and treating patients transformed my work into a truer source of joy.

This interweaving of a physical therapy appointment with a doctoral internship transforms the quality of healthcare, experience, and progress.

While these concepts are complex,
And can look like calculus or astrophysics to some,

They can be taught is such a way that you don’t need a degree.
They can be understood in such a way that uses simple language.

People can confidently learn the what and the how well enough to actually transform their own health.


You can learn and understand it with proficiency –
And retain it.

And put it into practice:

Identifying key areas of mechanical inefficiencies and transform them into sources of power.

Understanding how these principles are embedded in key exercises and activities, and performing them with professional mastery.

Learning doctoral-level decision-making skills on how to progress or modify, based on the needs of any particular moment.

Taking action before significant pain or even injury – a paradigm shift – moving it all ahead of traditional health care.

All of it understood through simple language, movement examples, and analogies.

Such possibility.

Creating such an experience time and again is so much fun for me.

In many ways,
It is like teaching principles of pottery; chords on a guitar,
And watching someone transform those basics into
An exquisite tea set; a transcendent melody.

And lest I forget to mention the exponential growth and potential of
The times spent discussing the integration of our identity, belonging, and gifts;
The embodiment of our mental health in and among the world we live in.

Teaching (working) within this new framework has created a paradigm shift in access to quality care and experience.

Of course there are situations (significant injury, surgical intervention, or complex presentation) that clearly need the expertise of healthcare practitioners.

Of course we still need physical therapy care performed by physical therapists.

Of course this isn’t replacing high-end physical therapy clinical care.

This is adding to the conversation, expanding healthcare –
Highlighting healthcare over injury-care.

This is recognizing the lack of quality resources for motivated people.

This is filling the gaps conventional health care easily overlooks.

This is addressing the healthcare’s systemic dependency and need for the sick and injured,
And our desire to be free, capable, and healthy.

Cut the red tape.
Stop hoarding over a decade’s worth of training and clinical practice and the wisdom gained from more than a decade’s-long career running marathon and ultra-marathon distances.

We are transforming the way health care looks.

I flipped the script. Removing the healthcare need for the sick and injured. Undoing a patient’s dependence on that system for access to expertise.

This is stepping outside of that lack mentality and empowering those that value their health.

This step outside of those systemic shortcomings is dependent upon those motivated to continue to care for their health whiles they are still healthy; those that have no interest in waiting for a problem.

This is for those folks that are looking for a better way,
Wanting to participate.

This is providing options for motivated people that are looking to better care for themselves;

For those people with the desire to learn a better way for themselves.

And this gives me the most fun and excitement I have had with any job, ever:

Teaching those who want to change their lives.

Teaching is such a gift.

But first and foremost,
I started this business to create joy and fun with my daily job.

© Dr Adam Fujita