Dr. Jerome Adams Jr., PT, DPT, OCS

I have spent my career on a single question: what does it actually take to get someone moving forward again?

Sometimes the answer is clinical — a spine that has not been assessed properly, a shoulder nobody put hands on, a plan of care written for a chart instead of a person. Sometimes the answer has nothing to do with the body at all: it is a fourteen-year-old who has never been told he is coachable, or a family that does not know what a college recruiter is looking for.

I trained at the University of Michigan–Flint, earning a Bachelor of Health Science and then my Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2006. I have been licensed and practicing in Michigan ever since — moving from staff therapist to clinical instructor to physical therapy director before opening my own doors.

In orthopaedics I went further than the degree: I sat for board certification through the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties and earned the OCS — Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy. I earned it in July 2025. It is a post-licensure credential that takes documented clinical practice and a specialist examination, and most physical therapists never pursue it. For a patient it means the person treating your spine or your shoulder has been examined on exactly that.

I did not stop learning at graduation. Principles of Manual Medicine with muscle energy technique. Integrative Systemic Dry Needling. Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy for the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. Spinal manipulation and dry needling certification through the Spinal Manipulation Institute. Fundamentals and Advanced Kinesio Taping. Every one of those is a tool I use on real patients, in a real clinic, most weeks of the year.