Seth Blee

About Seth Blee

Seth graduated from Boston College’s pre-medical program with a BS in philosophy. He then went on to physical therapy school and graduated with honors from Columbia University in New York with a Master’s of Science in Physical Therapy in 1998. Since graduating, Seth has worked with several different patient populations, but has focused the majority of his time in orthopedics and sports. He completed his transitional Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2009 from Arizona Health Science’s AT Still University. Seth has completed extensive continuing education coursework and training and has completed the Certification in Functional Manual Therapy from the IPA in 2006. He has done guest lecturing in orthopedics, joint mobilizations, stabilization training, and PNF techniques at several national conferences and universities, including as an adjunct faculty member at Marymount University. He began teaching continuing education courses to physical therapists with the IPA in 2006 and is a primary faculty member for the CoreFirst Strategies, PNF, Kinetic Shoulder Complex course, as well as Strategies for Optimizing Performance which is a course that he developed for higher level athletes.
Seth is also certified in Sportsmetrics for injury prevention, trigger point dry needling, and Blood Flow Restriction therapy. Seth is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, which he integrates into his treatment of athletes of all ages.
In addition to his clinical hours and his teaching and residency hours, Seth joined the medical staff of the Washington Nationals as their Team Physical Therapist in 2016. He has also treated professional football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, and soccer players and became the Team Physical Therapist for the NWSL (National Women’s Soccer League) Washington Spirit in 2020 as well. He has done multiple podcasts discussing rehab in professional sports and has been on ESPN as part of the E60 Project 11 program.

 Primary Instructor Institute of Physical Art
 Certified Functional Manual Therapist
 Sportsmetrics Certification for injury prevention
 Blood Flow Restriction certification
 Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

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