About Manual Medicine Spine & Sports Physical Therapy

The clinic that treats the cause.

Most places manage your symptoms and call that a plan. This one was built to end them: one clinician, hands on, one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit.

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Our Story

This isn’t our story. It’s yours.

Portrait of Trupti Mehta, founder of Manual Medicine Spine & Sports Physical Therapy

Trupti Mehta, PT, MS, OCS, Founder

Trupti came to this work as a patient. Her own injuries are what sent her into physical therapy, and then deeper, into manual therapy. What she noticed along the way was how hard it is to get a straight answer about your own body: how much guessing patients are asked to do, and how expensive that guessing gets. So she built the practice around answering first. The guides are free. The phone consultation is free. The 30-minute Discovery Session is free. You find out whether this will work for you before anyone asks you for money.

She trained first as a physiotherapist, with a Bachelor of Science, and practiced in India and Zambia across stroke rehabilitation, cancer clinics, and orthopedic surgical and outpatient units. Then a Master’s in Human Movement Science at UNC Chapel Hill. Then the certifications that shape how she actually treats: Maitland Australian manual therapy, Mulligan Movement with Mobilization, and the McKenzie Method for necks and backs. That is a lot of letters. What it buys you is a therapist whose hands can find the problem.

The Orthopedic Clinical Specialization came later, and it came from frustration: too many patients arriving after months of stretching, generic exercise sheets, and medication that only muted things. She runs, so she understands the particular fear of being told to stop. Her practice has grown around athletes for that reason, golfers and tennis players, collegiate lacrosse players, triathletes, swimmers, cyclists, soccer players, and a lot of other runners. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.

“What sets us apart is our whole-person approach.”

What We Believe

Four things that never bend here.

Your hour is yours.

No aide bouncing between rooms, no handoff halfway through. One-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit, for the whole visit.

Cause first. Symptoms follow.

You have probably chased the sore spot before and never heard why it started. We answer that first, then treat the thing that is actually driving it.

Plans end. That is the point.

You should not need a punch card. Every plan has an endpoint and a reassessment along the way, so you always know how close you are to done.

You are not a protocol.

Your job, your sport, your body, your goals. That is what the plan is built around, not the category your pain got filed under.

The Difference

Not your typical clinic.

A typical clinic

  • You explain your pain to a different aide every visit
  • Your hour gets split with two other patients
  • You leave with a printout, a heat pack, and a follow-up
  • No graduation date, just book again next week

Manual Medicine Spine & Sports Physical Therapy

  • One-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit
  • Your full hour, hands on, uninterrupted
  • A cause-first evaluation before anything gets treated
  • A plan with an endpoint, mapped out on day one

Try it once. You will know inside the first hour.

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Rooted in Washington

This is our neighborhood too.

The people on the schedule here are your neighbors, your coworkers, your kids’ coaches. The lawyer who cannot sit through a deposition. The runner who quietly stopped signing up for races. The mom who has been pushing through it so nobody else has to worry. The dad whose back gave out lifting a toddler he lifts every day. A block from Farragut West, which means getting seen does not cost you a whole afternoon.

  • Downtown DC
  • Capitol Hill
  • Penn Quarter
  • Dupont Circle
  • Foggy Bottom / West End
  • Georgetown

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Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and Trupti calls you back herself. Not a front desk. Not ‘someone will reach out.’ The therapist who would actually treat you, on the phone, before you commit to anything.

  • Hours Monday–Friday: 8 AM–6 PM · Saturday & Sunday: Closed
  • (202) 670-8874 Rather just talk it through? The 15-minute phone consult is free.
  • Free 30-minute Discovery Session first, before you commit to anything

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Trupti calls you back herself

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Manual Medicine Spine & Sports Physical Therapy