Dr. Kathy Coutinho is your fellow local trail runner/mountain biker who continually strives to help our athletic community to Always Keep Moving Forward. Soft (muscle, tendon, ligament, nerve) and hard (bone, joint) tissue injury is all too often diagnosed with the side warning- STOP TRAINING, the psychological kiss of death to any devoted athlete. Dr. Kathy will RARELY utter these words, but instead, find options to help keep the body fit and healthy while simultaneously providing chiropractic and motion-based care to proactively speed up healing. Staying active and healing quickly is as vital for the body as it is for the mind in these athletic individuals. Dr. Kathy is a board-certified sports Chiropractor who specializes in the movement-based soft tissue massage technique called Active Release Technique, or ART. She is also licensed in Applied Kinesiology. Dr. Kathy graduated from Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon, in March 1997, days before running her first marathon in Vancouver BC. She started working as an associate Chiropractor in this very office a month later, working for 2 years before landing the opportunity to live life to the fullest and starting her own business called Positively Chiropractic. (In other words, to entertain the life stress of a different beast!) To date, it has been an incredible 20-year journey as an entrepreneur. Locally, Dr. Kathy has been named Business Owner of the Year by the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce in 2009 and was an active member of a group of community leaders called BNI for 20 years including holding various positions such as President and Visitor host, and to date is a major sponsor to our fantastic race organization in our community called EX2 Adventures.