Jana Van Surksum, PT, OCS
Director

A graduate in Health Science in Physical Therapy, she is a Board Certified Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy. She is a participating member of the American Physical Therapy Association as well as the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Furthermore, Jana became a Certified Golf Instructor through Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) in February of 2007. She is also a Certified Level 1 Gyrotonic® Instuctor.

Her post-graduate studies have focused on research and evidence based treatment strategies that focus on maximal outcomes for her patients. Through her extensive and diverse treatment background, she has developed programs that identify and eliminate the causes of pains and dysfunctions as they relate to muscular, skeletal and neurological impairments in movement, alignment, muscle length, stiffness, weakness and motor control.

Tim Appleford, MSPT, OCS, ATC

Tim graduated from UCLA in 2001 with a Bachelor's of Science degree in physiology. While at UCLA Tim completed a 3 year sports-medicine internship where he worked closely with the UCLA football, baseball and track and field teams. Tim became certified as an athletic trainer (ATC) in 2002 following completion of his studies at UCLA.

Tim completed his Master's of Science in Physical Therapy at University of California, San Francisco in 2004. While in San Francisco he worked with a local high school football team as an athletic trainer through a community outreach program.

Tim has completed numerous continuing education courses including a year-long course on orthopedic manual physical therapy and became a board certified specialist in orthopedic physical therapy (OCS) in 2008. His treatment emphasis is on biomechanical assessment and treats with a mixture of both manual therapy and functional exercise.

Tim has been married for 3 years to his wife Tamara who is also a physical therapist. In his spare time he enjoys playing soccer, reading, biking and sometimes playing the guitar.