Angie Hoerner
Angie Hoerner grew up in Abilene and has been with this clinic since 2005, the year it opened. She holds a BA in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Kansas State University, worked as a physical therapy aide for four years, and then completed the physical therapist assistant program at Washburn University. Her hospital background covers inpatient, outpatient and home health, so she has worked with people at every stage of a recovery, from the first careful days after surgery to the last steps back into an ordinary life. Her training since is deep and specific: extensive manual therapy, ASTYM certification, balance and fall prevention, vestibular rehabilitation, biofeedback for incontinence, and LSVT BIG for people living with Parkinson's.
I love physical therapy and the opportunity to meet new people. Helping them get better is the best part!
What guides the work.
Angie's training points straight at the problems people are most often told to accept. Dizziness that makes you plan your whole day around it. Balance that has quietly shrunk your life down to the rooms you trust. Leaking that nobody wants to raise at an appointment. Parkinson's symptoms that make movement smaller year on year. None of those are things you simply age into, and every one of them responds to specific, measured work. Here you get one on one time with your therapist, start to finish. What you are working on and why gets explained in plain language, and what changes gets measured rather than assumed.
Life beyond the treatment table.
Angie grew up in Abilene, and 21 years after the clinic opened she is still treating people in the town she comes from. That matters more than it sounds. The person assessing your balance or your shoulder is not passing through on the way to somewhere bigger, and the outcome she is working toward is not a number on a chart. It is your own stairs, your own yard, your own routine, in a community she lives in too.