Biographies
Denise Schwartz, PT, CIMT, CAFS, CFGS, Owner
Denise opened The Manual Touch PT in August of 2010, and her whole body approach to health uses traditional and nontraditional PT methods to assist her patients in overcoming pain and improving their quality of life. She began her career working in a level 1 trauma hospital for 14 years. She focused her skill development in the outpatient area, treating a variety of orthopedic and neurological patients.
Denise has taken more than 5,000 continuing education hours to further her PT knowledge in manual therapy, spinal care, running, and functional rehabilitation (rehab). She is certified in Applied Functional Science and has extensive training in Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT), going beyond the required 1500 hours of continuing education to become certified.
She then went on to start CenterIMT Chicago. As part owner of three CenterIMT clinics, she organized numerous IMT courses and mentored other IMT therapists.
Denise has assisted at many manual therapy classes and has taught myofascial release and therapeutic taping to other physical therapists in continuing education courses. In addition, she teaches the physical therapy assistant students at Oakton community college about running.
Denise began running later in life which quickly became a passion. Despite multiple injuries common in older runners, she has gone on to complete many half marathons and 1 marathon. Denise’s specialties are IMT, Applied Functional Science, Kinesio taping, running injury/prevention, and myofascial release.
