About Us
Educate-Empower-Prevent
Provide the public with easy access to physical therapists’ knowledge and resources, providing individuals, industries, and organizations with the information and resources needed to prevent injury and reduce discomfort independently.
Reasons
- To empower, inspire, and coach people to become managers of their own health care.
- To create a healthier community.
- To have a positive impact on healthcare costs for individuals.
- To maintain or increase the productivity of individuals.
- To reduce work-related injuries and healthcare costs.
Goals
- To provide a quality and comprehensive service to our clients, which will aid them in maintaining or achieving effective and purposeful movement
- To assure the right to service for all clients.
- To provide a cost-effective service to all clients.
- To allow for easy access to our services for all clients.
- To ensure customer satisfaction of 99% of our clients.
- To maintain a unique, state-of-the-art, cutting-edge service by continual completion of advanced clinical and research learning.
- To enhance the community with whom we serve.
Philosophy
Optimizing Motion LLC believes it is important for the general health of an individual to understand how their body moves in order to attain effective and purposeful movement without risk of injury. We are passionate and dedicated in supporting our customers in becoming independent in the management of their health and wellness, as well as self-sufficient in the recovery from discomfort of an injury. Our vision is to enrich the lives of our clients by enabling them to help themselves. We believe that an individual can benefit from the education that physical therapists can provide and should have easy, cost-effective access to this knowledge. Our concentration is on our power to educate, inform, and motivate individuals, organizations, and industries, resulting in healthier and more productive companies and communities. We uphold the code of ethics of the American Physical Therapy Association. We strive to provide state-of-the-art, evidence-based practices by engaging in ongoing higher learning and research. Lastly, we believe in enriching the community with whom we serve and live in.
Optimizing Motion LLC exists to provide superior, state-of-the-art, evidence-based ergonomic services, which will assist individuals, businesses, and our community in maintaining or attaining pain-free, effective, and purposeful movement. As well, we strive to educate our clients in how to create low-risk, productive, and enjoyable work, academic, home, and recreational environments. We work with our clients to inspire, educate, coach, and empower.
You can improve the motion of yourself, your business, and your community with the help of Optimizing Motion LLC’s ergonomic and physical therapy services.
Meet Dr Kathryn Meeks, PT, DPT, CIE
Doctor of Physical Therapy and Certified Ergonomist
My story is not much different than many others. I was not exactly sure what I wanted to be when I grew up until I learned about the field of physical therapy (PT). I was very fortunate to meet a wonderful mentor early in my career who taught me to take risks, never stop learning, and to give back. This was advise, which served me well as I grew into my career and built my own business.
I started my own business right before our daughter was born. In fact, she was born premature by almost three months, and I had to work hard to keep my business going while taking care of her. A twist in my story comes when we learned that our daughter was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP), a non-progressive neurological condition that affects the motion of the individual. It was quite ironic; here I am, a person who studies motion, and my daughter has some of the biggest challenges with motion. People would often ask me if I became involved in PT and ergonomic because she had CP. The answer was no, it just happened. So my passion for optimal motion grew as I saw the challenges my daughter faced and how so many able-bodied individuals did not understand motion or did not know how to maintain good motion.
Experience
Dr. Kathryn Meeks is the founder and owner of Optimizing Motion LLC, providing physical therapy and ergonomic services in Northern California. She received her physical therapy degree from Indiana University and her Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of New England. Dr. Meeks also holds a Certification in industrial Ergonomics from the Oxford Institute and has spent over 20+ years providing ergonomic services to many companies in Silicon Valley. She has presented at both national and international ergonomic conferences and has published an ergonomic case study. She is passionate about helping people and businesses help themselves to prevent and recover from injury/discomfort, as well as enriching and improving the health of the community in which she lives and works.
Mission
Optimizing Motion LLC exists to provide superior, state-of-the-art, evidence-based physical therapy and ergonomic services, which will assist individuals, businesses, and our community in maintaining or attaining pain-free, effective, and purposeful movement. Additionally, we strive to educate our clients in how to create low-risk, productive, and enjoyable work, academic, home, and recreational environments. We work with our clients to inspire, educate, coach, and empower.
Some clients we’ve served:
- Hewlett Packard
- Agilent Technology
- Genentech
- Lockheed Martin
- Juniper Networks
- Sugar CRM
- Advantech
- MediaTek
- Santa Clara Valley Water
- Santa Clara County, CA
- City of Milpitas, CA
- City of Santa Cruz, CA
- Dialog Semiconductor
- Nvidia
- Valley Transportation Authority, CA