As an active participant in high school football, basketball, track & field and a year of baseball, it should come as no surprise that Jacob is a physical therapist.

He was a blue chip recruit for college football. Were it not for an unfortunate ankle injury in his senior year of high school, he may not have elected to play college basketball instead. Four years later during his senior year of college, he was recruited to throw the shot-put for the track and field team. He’s a 4-time collegiate letterman in basketball and a 1-year letterman in track and field.

Raised by a coach and a nurse, physical therapy is in his blood. Growing up, Jacob logged countless hours in the gym shooting baskets with his dad. Mom’s influence in nursing paired with numerous injuries sparked his interest in the medical field. In fact, Jacob overcame a significant injury every year of high school including a dislocated shoulder, a fractured leg, a collar bone injury, and a broken ankle. Needless to say, he spend his fair share of time surrounded by physical therapists and physicians. "One of the benefits of having endured so much physical trauma during my high school years is my ability to empathize with what my patients are going through."

While at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, Jacob completed the necessary requirements to earn a Bachelors Degree in Biology. He went on to complete the Masters Program at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, specializing in physical therapy. To round out his education, Jacob performed Casework in Healthcare Administration at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Since becoming a physical therapist, he has become certified in Integrative Dry Needling and is a certified Oklahoma Home Healthcare Administrator. He has a profound knowledge in orthopedic rehab, strength and conditioning training and wound care.

As a physical therapist, he enjoy the diversity of patients he is fortunate to interact with for treatment, which he knows has molded him into a better autonomous practitioner. “I find great joy in helping improve and restore a patient’s mobility and function, which in turn helps improve their quality of life.” In fact, if Jacob would have diverted from his career path as a physical therapist, you would find him practicing medicine as a physician or orthopedic surgeon or quite possibly as a coach.

On the weekends and after work, you’ll catch Jacob riding motorcycles or tinkering with a 1970 Chevy C-10, working out, golfing, snow skiing and enjoying music of all sorts. His future plans are to play the lottery, become filthy rich and retire on his own private island somewhere with a small runway long enough for a chartered plane. In the meantime, he’ll keep serving patients in Guymon, OK, and Liberal, KS. "One of my primary goals is to challenge each of my patients--pushing the limits to ensure they are stronger and better off post-treatment than they were before their injuries occurred."

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” - Andy Defresne, Shawshank Redemption

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