Kevin Kostka, PT, DPT, PES has an extensive educational background receiving four degrees from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  Foremost, he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology in 2000 and Exercise Rehabilitative Science in 2001.  He went on to assume his Master’s Degree in Physical Therapy in 2003.  He also achieved his Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2003.    Kevin began his professional career working with the Knoxville Orthopedic clinic, where he had the privilege to work beside fellowshipped trained medical doctors for whom he acquired valuable experience with differential diagnosis and diagnostic testing in a one on one environment with the fellowship trained specialist.

Kevin achieved his Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES) Certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine in 2006.  He researched and assisted in the writing of a journal article with a fellowshipped trained shoulder and elbow specialist as well as a hand specialist for distal bicep tendon repairs from 2007-2008, while also working on his most recent publication with Edwin Spencer, MD, Post Operative Rehabilitation of Shoulder Pathologies.  Kevin is currently a Member of the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists is trained in the Graston Technique for Manual Soft Tissue Mobilization and foot orthotic trained using the Sole Support program.  Kevin know utilizes OptoJump Next system by Microgate to obtain objective information with gait, jumping and performance evaluations along with creating effective treatment plans by utilizing this data pre and post treatments.

Kevin’s Vision is to continue to promote evidence based, research biased treatments to the physical therapy community.
Publications:
Human Kinetics, 2011.  Post operative Rehabilitation of Shoulder Pathologies.  With Kevin Kostka, DPT and Edwin E Spencer, Jr, MD. Human Kinetics ADE e-book.  Click here for more…