Welcome to Doctors For Dancers!

Jessica Davis, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT is the co-owner of Perform Physio, LLC.  Her primary areas of specialty include orthopedics, manual therapy, and performing arts medicine.  As a former dancer herself, her mission is to keep dancers dancing by providing evidence-based treatments with an emphasis on preventative injury management strategies.  She is currently both an assistant professor and assistant director of clinical education with Duquesne University.  She is also faculty with the Institute of Clinical Excellence where she is lead faculty for the Performing Arts Division.  In addition, she is faculty with Evidence in Motion where she teaches weekend intensive courses.  She has been faculty for the China Linkage program with Duquesne University teaching Foundational Concepts. She has also been interim faculty with the Dance Department of Slippery Rock University teaching dance kinesiology as well as a lab instructor for Duquesne University’s Physical Therapy department.   She has extensive orthopedic manual therapy experience and has provided outpatient orthopedic physical therapy for many years in southern California and Pittsburgh. She has been practicing orthopaedic physical therapy with an emphasis in manual therapy since graduating from Duquesne University in 1999.   She received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Chatham University in 2008, became a Board-Certified Specialist in Orthopaedics in 2002, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists with Evidence in Motion in 2017.

Jessica maintains various professional memberships, including the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists,  the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association, International Association of Dance Medicine and Science,  and the American Physical Therapy Association.