About the Owner
Michele Gust Martinez, RPT, CSCS, CES

Michele Gust Martinez has been a licensed Physical Therapist in Miami for 12 years. She founded Healing Touch Rehabilitation in 2001, which for the first seven years solely provided Physical Therapy in patients' homes

Being a manual therapist, she uses a hands-on approach to treat orthopedic dysfunctions resulting from sports injuries or work. She has worked with a number of professional athletes from Miami Heat basketpall players to professional tennis stars on the ATP Tour, as well as cyclists, runners, golfers, and dancers. She works closely with doctors to rehab patients following orthopedic surgeries. Though her specialty is orthopedics, she treats a wide variety of neurological conditions as well.

Michele has also been a Pilates Instructor and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist for over 7 years. What also sets her apart from other therapists is that she is one of the few practitioners in Florida who use Pilates-based rehabilitation as well as the Strain/Counterstrain technique to eliminate chronic and acute pain and correct neuromuscular imbalances. Athletes at all levels can benefit from Physical Therapy to enhance their athletic performance, recover from injuries faster, and learn how to minimize reoccurance.

Additionally, being a Certified Ergonomics Assessment Specialist, she helps educate both employers and employees in the workplace on how to minimize stress and strain on the body. Injury prevention is the key to being more productive at work, which in turn saves the company thousands of dollars per year. During a consultation, she not only identifies problem areas in the employees' workstations but creates a plan to modify and correct the problem, which usually entails equipment repostitioning or possibly implementation of new, ergonomically correct office equipment.