Alliance Regen & Rehab

‼️Hiring: Performance Physical Therapist in St. Pete‼️

Are you a performance-minded physical therapist with a fitness-forward approach, looking to make a real impact in your local community?

🏋️Alliance Regen & Rehab is an integrative sports medicine and physical therapy clinic in St. Petersburg, built around one core belief: patients get better outcomes when care isn’t dictated by insurance timelines or checkboxes. We bring sports medicine and physical therapy together under one roof, treating one-on-one and treating root cause — as one system, not two separate lanes.

🏃🏽‍♀️Our clinicians have caseloads that consist of an active, motivated athletic demographic. Our Alliance physical therapists also have the opportunity to build a local reputation for specific niches like golf, running, and pickleball.

⚕️Our PTs can collaborate closely with our sports medicine physician, with the added benefit of diagnostic ultrasound and regenerative medicine options (PRP, MFAT stem cell therapy) available when the case calls for it — a level of resource, collaboration, and clarity most PT settings don’t offer.

Our mission at Alliance Regen & Rehab is to help athletes and everyday active adults move better, feel better, and perform better — so they can live a healthy, fulfilling life that supports their ambitions and passions.

What we’re looking for:
✅A full-time licensed physical therapist in Florida committed to empowering clients to reach their full potential.

✅Ability to provide excellent clinical care.

✅Fitness forward with strong strength & conditioning background.

✅Strong communication skills with great attention to detail.

✅Ability and pursuit to continue learning new concepts and new skills.

The role:
➡️Full-time, salaried position with benefits, paid holidays, PTO, con-ed reimbursement and opportunities for advancement within the company.

If this sounds like a good fit for you or someone you know, DM us “PT” or send us 3-5 minute intro video to [email protected].

Please include why Alliance is a good fit for you, why you’re a good fit for Alliance, and where you see yourself personally & professionally in the next 5 years.

Good outcomes are the baseline. What this review is really about? The experience.

Anyone can chase a result. Whether it’s shoulder pain, pain with lifting, or an injury that’s kept you out of the gym, our physical therapy and regenerative medicine team here in St. Pete can get you the result. But feeling heard, feeling like the people treating you actually like what they do and like you — that’s what turns a patient into someone who tells their friends about us.

We don’t just have good doctors. We have good people. And in a healthcare system that often forgets that distinction matters, we won’t.

Thank you for trusting us with your care — and for noticing the little things that make it feel different here.

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A runner came in last month convinced his Achilles was “basically healed.” Pain was down, he’d been icing it, taking two weeks off here and there whenever it flared. Made sense to him.

Except when we loaded it, it barely tolerated anything. What he had wasn’t a reactive tendon calming down — it was a degenerative tendon that had been quietly losing capacity for over a year. The rest he kept giving it wasn’t helping. It was the thing making it worse.

This is the part almost nobody explains: tendinopathy isn’t one condition, it’s three different stages, and they need opposite treatment. A reactive tendon calms down with relative rest and reduced load. A degenerative tendon needs the opposite — months of progressive strength work, because time off just makes it weaker without making it less painful.

Same diagnosis on paper. Completely different plan.

If you’ve been managing a tendon issue for months (or years) and it’s not really moving, the stage — not the pain level — is probably why.

Book a consultation — link in bio.

Here’s why “just give it rest” was the wrong call for him — and might be the wrong call for you too.

Tendinopathy moves through three stages, and each one is basically a different injury wearing the same name.

Reactive is a tendon that’s swollen, not damaged — it puffed up in response to a load spike. It’s irritated from too much load beyond what it could handle, worse at the start of activity, better once warm. This one actually does respond to relative rest and reduced load. 6 to 12 weeks, usually.

Disrepair is a tendon trying to heal and laying down the wrong kind of tissue. Pain stops settling between sessions. Still reversible — but it needs heavy, slow resistance for months, not time off.

Degenerative is the one that gets missed. Parts of the tendon are no longer functional tendon tissue. It’s often the quietest of the three and the closest to rupture. Rest doesn’t calm it down — it just makes it weaker while the pain stays exactly the same.

Same tendon. Three completely different problems. The stage decides the plan — not how bad it hurts.

Swipe to see which one sounds like you.

A reactive tendon gets isometrics — static, held

Most runners think they only have two options when pain shows up mid-training-block: push through it, or shut it down completely.

There’s usually a third option.

Here’s what that looks like:

→ Video running analysis and a functional assessment to find the actual mechanical fault — not just the sore spot
→ Diagnostic ultrasound when the injury or your race timeline calls for a closer look
→ Targeted treatment — PRP, shockwave, dry needling, or soft tissue work — aimed at the root cause
→ Training adjustments, not training shutdowns, so your fitness keeps building while you heal
→ Structured strength work to fix the weak link that caused the problem in the first place

The goal isn’t just symptom relief. It’s getting you to the start line healthy, with the fitness you worked for still intact.

Achilles tendinopathy, IT band syndrome, plantar fasciitis, runner’s knee, hip flexor pain, shin splints — the earlier these get a real look, the more options you have.

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Race-block care isn’t rest-and-hope. It’s a specific process:

→ Video running analysis to catch mechanical faults
→ Functional assessment across the whole kinetic chain
→ A training plan adjusted around your actual race date

The goal is simple: treat the cause without abandoning the training block that’s getting you to race day.

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Not every issue needs advanced treatment. But when injury severity and your race timeline call for it, conservative care alone isn’t enough.

That’s when we bring in diagnostic ultrasound, PRP, shockwave, or TECAR therapy — tools built to speed up healing when time is tight.

Keep running and risk making it worse. Or rest and lose the fitness you’ve built.

That’s the choice most runners think they’re stuck with.

Reality check: overuse pain is usually tied to a jump in training load, not one bad step — and stopping completely often isn’t the fastest way back.

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Fixing a running injury takes more than rest. It takes:

→ Root cause identification, not guesswork
→ Targeted treatment — PRP, shockwave, dry needling, soft tissue work
→ Training adj

PRP is basically meal-prepping — but with your own blood. And just like meal prep, doing it half-heartedly gets you a sad, underwhelming result.

Here’s the thing nobody tells you: not all PRP is dosed, guided, or followed up the same way. Some clinics draw a small amount of blood, guess at the target, inject, and send you home. Congratulations, you paid for a fancy version of nothing.

We draw significantly more blood (yes, more vials, we know), confirm the actual problem with diagnostic ultrasound before we ever pick up a needle, guide every injection in real time so we’re not guessing, and pair it with physical therapy so your body actually knows what to do with the healing boost it just got.

PRP isn’t magic. It’s a process. And the process is the whole point.

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PRP concentrates platelets from your own blood to support tissue repair — but the process behind the injection determines whether it delivers a real therapeutic dose. The draw volume, the guidance, and what happens after all matter.

Where you feel pain and the structure actually causing it aren’t always the same place. We confirm the real pain generator with diagnostic ultrasound — in real time, during movement — before we ever plan a treatment.

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Platelet count in PRP is tied directly to blood volume. Low-volume draws often yield fewer platelets, even after concentration. We draw significantly more — built to reach a clinically meaningful platelet dose, not just a vial labeled “PRP.”

Placing a needle by feel means estimating where the tissue is. Research on Level I trials shows ultrasound-guided injections are consistently more accurate than blind ones. We guide every PRP injection, every time.

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Growth factors start the repair process, but tissue still has to be loaded correctly to remodel and get stronger. That’s why physical therapy is built into every PRP plan we write — not offered as an add-on.

An injured tendon or joint rarely fails in isolation. The muscles and structures around it usually need to catch up too, or the same problem comes back. Our rehab

Saturday Tuneup Day @ F45 St. Pete 🧡

Nothing beats starting the weekend with the St. Pete fitness community. Dr. John, Dr. Alex, Dr. Dennis, and Dr. Brian set up shop at F45 Training St Petersburg — diagnostic ultrasound, spot treatments, adjustments, and injury screens for everyone who showed up ready to work on a Saturday morning.

If you were one of the go-getters who grabbed an LMNT from us or stopped by to ask us questions — thank you for stopping by and trusting us with a few minutes of your morning. That’s what this is about: getting to know the athletes and active adults in this city, one gym at a time.

Stay tuned — our next F45 Tuneup Day is coming, and we’ll be popping up Tuneup Tables around St. Pete each month. Come say hi, ask us anything, and let’s keep this community moving.

🎂 Happy Birthday to the One and Only Dr. Dennis Colón, DPT!! 🎉

Let’s take a trip back on the Time Machine, shall we… ➡️

Throwback to 2020: Dennis joins as a student intern with Dr. Brian — back when the “clinic” was Impact Sports Performance and Rehab,. Alliance was in the works, the world was in the middle of COVID, and we were averaging a whopping 8 visits a week. 😅

Humble Beginnings: He was there from the beginning, when Dr. Brian had this upstairs nook! This was after we took down the black soundproofing and blue cloth curtains on the walls. 🤣

Shoutout to Full Torque Fitness for making the way possible and giving Brian a place to start!!

Dennis working on his craft! I (Brian) was new to this whole business thing, and Dennis was needed this whole treating thing. We had plenty of time to talk about treating, being a PT, marketing, and even the small stuff like hand placement and exercise selection.

Even as a student, it was clear that Dennis was going to be a great PT!

And at this point who knew that they would be at each other‘s weddings over the next 5-6 years!

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Answer is definitely Dennis!

And shout out to Morgan Lindley - a real “OG”

And we even have a picture with those masks on!

We didn’t even have base molding yet!

at this point the Alliance error has begun! But Dr. Dennis started his career with the Minnesota Twins after he graduated PT school.

Dennis finally Joins the Team! And he instantly gets showered with LSU gear from Brian and John’s mom! Donna Broussard

Family initiation had begun!

Saving elbows and taking names!

Just another Dennis Birthday 🎂

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Just trying to help some Pickleballers out there and shoutout to PickleballCentral for collaborating with us!

The Show

Not only did he become an integral part of the team and family, but he started to develop this persona as Uncle Dennis to Rougie!!

At Jackson’s 1st BDAY - went from Uncle Dennis for Rouge to Uncle Pablo to Jackson!

Brian Broussard, PT, DPT | Sports Physio Danielle Broussard

And we Traveled to Portugal to to watch him marry the love of his life - the wonderful Mrs. Tatiana - Tatiana Vélez, MS, RD, CSSD, LND | Sports Nutrition

And we tore up the dance floor!

🍻 Cheers to

Why does a “minor” ache sometimes turn into months of avoiding the things you love?

When a joint or muscle is injured, the body’s first response is protective: it guards the area, limiting how much you use it. That’s normal and useful — for a little while.

The problem starts when guarding becomes the long-term plan.
⋅ Other muscles compensate to avoid the painful area
⋅ Compensation patterns create new areas of strain
⋅ The under-used tissue gradually loses capacity
⋅ Reduced capacity means the original area feels even less able to handle load

This is why “just resting it” can quietly turn a minor issue into a bigger one. It’s not that rest is wrong — it’s that rest without a plan to rebuild capacity often just delays the real work.

The fix isn’t more waiting. It’s addressing what’s driving the guarding, then rebuilding strength through the range you actually need for the activities you care about — golf, pickleball, skiing, or just getting through the day without thinking about it.

The earlier that process starts, the shorter it usually is.

Comment “SCHEDULE” and we’ll send you the link to book your Strategy Call.