Katie is a familiar face at Nick Rinard Physical Therapy, having originally worked at the clinic in the front office before going to PT school to earn her Doctor of Physical Therapy. She is now thrilled to return to Nick Rinard Physical Therapy as a fully licensed physical therapist!
She spent nearly 8 years practicing in skilled nursing and is excited to continue her career in the outpatient setting. She is passionate about getting people results in physical therapy! She feels most accomplished when helping patients get mechanically better, promoting their return to full function, and getting back to living life to its fullest, whatever that may be for each patient! Whether that is climbing mountains, running marathons, taking long walks on the beach, or simply having the tolerance to stand a cook a meal.
Katie is a native Oregonian, currently living in Beaverton. She married her high school sweetheart and is now a proud mom of 2 lovely children! Life is busy, busy, busy chasing after little ones, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Nick Rinard, MPT, Cert MDT
When Nick Rinard founded MDT of Portland, PC (now Nick Rinard Physical Therapy) in 1999, it was the first clinic in Portland devoted to the MDT Method and to this day, it continues to be the best.
Nick began his studies in PT as a Manual Therapist, which is the most stringent course of study. At the time Nick was in school, MDT was still known as “McKenzie” and was not well-known. So, to judge the method for himself, Nick attended a 4-day seminar. What he saw there changed him forever.
“The instructor evaluated patients he’d never met before who were very difficult cases, and he would treat them on the spot,” Nick says. “The results were right there for everybody to see.”
Nick’s dedication to MDT encouraged him to learn as much as possible about the method. He pursued further education under Dr Mark Laslett FNZCP, PhD, Dip MT, Dip MDT, eventually becoming one of three people in the world teaching Dr Laslett’s courses.
Though Nick still sees patients on a daily basis, his role has shifted to be more of a mentor and consult to our other therapists for extremely difficult cases.
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Natasha Rinard
Natasha was born in Ukraine, one of the former Republics of the USSR. Her home city, Uzhgorod, is located in the southwestern part of Ukraine, bordering Slovakia and Hungary. It is over 1100 years old!
In her first year at the Uzhgorod State University, while double-majoring in Finance and English, she won a sister-cities scholarship to Oregon State University. In 1991, she went both as an exchange student to OSU, and as the first sister-cities representative to Corvallis. There, a couple of years later she met Nick, whom she married.
In 1996, Natasha received her degree in Occupational Therapy at the University of Puget Sound. Her clinical interest is in Hand Therapy, and she specializes in helping people recover from various hand and arm injuries. She loves making functional hand splints and braces, often necessary during initial stages of rehabilitation.
Among her many administrative duties as a shareholder at Nick Rinard Physical Therapy, Natasha is responsible for the Finance Section of the organization.
Her recreational sports are skiing and running. She enjoys good coffee & great food, and thinks that American wines are the best in the world. She also likes fashion, movies, her laptop, iPhone, and Amazon Kindle. She loves to read, travel, and most of all–to spend time with friends and family, especially her baby daughter, Nina.
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