Meet The Dr.
Dr. Amy Pemberton (formerly Dr. Amy Fox), born and raised in beautiful Spokane, WA began her physical therapy journey long before deciding to make it her profession. As a multi-sport athlete in high school, she was plagued with various injuries that gave her first hand experience with rehabilitation as a patient. Amy was positively impacted by the physical therapists who helped her return to the sports she enjoyed. Through her own experience with rehab, Amy developed a special interest in the body’s ability to heal itself when properly equipped with the right resources.
Amy earned her Bachelors in Exercise Science in 2010 and her Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2013, both from Eastern Washington University. Since graduating, Dr. Amy has further developed her manual skills by completing a nine month certification in craniosacral therapy (CCST). She has also completed a ten month fellowship in Applied Functional Science (FAFS) from the Gray Institute making her a biomechanics expert.
Her treatment philosophy is that health in the human body is expressed through motion and that when sickness, injury or trauma occurs, the body loses its ability to express this inherent motion. Dr. Amy works with her patients to restore the body’s internal motion so that her clients can move efficiently in their external environments. She believes she can best serve her patients when viewing them as a whole unit and partnering with them to create functional, individualized treatment programs that assist the body’s own healing capacities.
Dr. Amy’s passion for movement, fascination with the human body, and special interest in a whole body treatment approach inspire her to pursue an active and nutritious lifestyle of her own. She enjoys exercise, hiking, skiing, snow shoeing, paddle boarding, basketball, anything in the great outdoors, traveling and spending quality time with her husband Ryan along with church friends. Her other ambitions include becoming bilingual in Spanish, relearning to play the piano, having children someday, and gaining her private pilot’s license.
