Specialties
Squirrel Hill Physical Therapy Center has been providing the highest level of care since 1974. Owner Cynthia Stein founded the SHPT to fill a void in Pittsburgh's health care system. She recognized the need to provide a more compassionate and complete healing environment: focusing on the whole person, not just on particular symptoms. Cynthia is licensed in the state of PA. She has been extensively trained by the Upledger Institute in holistic therapy, and more recently in Graston Technique, Luigi Stecco's Fascial Manipulation, and Massage Cupping Therapy. This past year, a Chinese physician and acupuncturist, Dr. Zhisheng Yu, joined our office and offers one-on-one quality care at a competitive rate for Pittsburgh. She has enhanced the quality of care at this office. At the beginning of next year, to fulfill our dream of specializing in concussion care, Cynthia's craniosacral therapy techniques will finally be strengthened with the addition of a vestibular therapist to the office!
History
Established in 1974.
I am Cynthia Stein, Med PT, and have been working in the Pittsburgh area for over thirty years. My dream has always been to provide a holistic therapy recognizing the mind-body-spirit as one unit.
Doctors and patients commonly separate one issue from another. Isn't it coincidental that issue is in the word tissue? The only way our body can speak is through symptoms, and the pain is the issue that takes you to the doctor. Sometimes we have to investigate before we come up with what's gonna work, and that is the beauty of looking at the body holistically.
Looking at our problems as disconnected from each other, as opposed to interconnected, leads people to a feeling of confusion. Sometimes as a practitioner, I am drawn to working on someone's neck who is complaining of back pain--why? Because the cereboral spinal fluid is not freely flowing down the spinal column, therefore not allowing the lower back to get nourishment. Everything in our body is connected, so must be treated as such
Meet the Business Owner: Cynthia S.
*Owner, Private Practice,
Squirrel Hill Physical Therapy Center,1982-present
*Contract Physical Therapist
Nursing Services Home Care, 1982
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 1982
Sea West Physical Therapy, Long Beach, CA,1982
*Chief Physical Therapist
Naval Regional Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA,1977-1981
*Staff Physical Therapist
Naval Academy Annapolis, Annopolis, MD,1974-1976
*Senior Clinical Instructor
Hahnemann Medical College, Dept. of P.T., Philadelphia, PA, 1980-1981
*Visiting Professor
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1978-1981
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1977-1981
University of Delaware, New Castle, DE, 1978-1979
*Part-time Physical Therapist
NRMC, Long Beach, CA,1982
Methodist Hospital, Sports Medicine Clinic, Philadelphia, PA, 1980-1981
Director of Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, 1978-1979
Homestead Hospital, Homestead, PA 1974
Clinical Instructor, University of Pittsburgh, 1983-1984
(more extesive list on website)