Tonya Mills
Tonya Mills graduated from Wichita State University in 1990 and opened Abilene Physical Therapy and Sports Rehab in 2005. Twenty one years later, the clinic she started treats two Kansas communities from its Abilene and Chapman locations. She is a licensed physical therapist with special training in women's health and in manual therapy for the spine and ribs, a region that gets missed constantly, and she is ASTYM and NESTA certified. If you have been told your rib pain is just stress, or that your back is something you live with now, it may be that nobody has examined that area properly. That is a different problem than an untreatable one.
I opened this clinic so people here would be examined properly and treated by a therapist who stays in the room with them.
What guides the work.
The standard Tonya set in 2005 has not moved since. You are seen one on one by your therapist, start to finish. You are not handed off to an aide or shared across a gym floor while your appointment runs down. Findings get measured at your first visit and re-measured as you go, and you are told honestly what those numbers say instead of being managed with encouragement. The clinic has 104 five-star Google reviews, and the reason is not a marketing plan. It is that people get the therapist they came to see, for the whole visit, every visit.
Life beyond the treatment table.
Away from the clinic, Tonya is usually outdoors. She gardens, she travels, she cooks, and scuba diving is a newer addition to the list. She and her husband Sean have two sons, Colton and Cade. Two decades of treating people in this community has not changed her view of what recovery is actually for. The exercises were never the point. The garden is the point. So is the trip, the water, and the people you want to be well enough to keep up with.