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Core Purpose

To transform lives to comfortable, capable, and confident movement enabling you to enjoy life again and to serve others.

Our Mission

To serve the Rochester community with PT owned clinics established as the “go-to” preferred first choice for orthopedic and sports physical therapy and injury prevention for those who are hurting and people striving to resume their active lifestyle.

Our patient support team provides a smooth and encouraging experience through scheduling and financial matters.

Our therapists provide unmatched expertise in biomechanical problem solving skills and training in order to 100% personalize all treatments, including exercise, manual therapy, and modalities, to help patients achieve great outcomes, shorten recovery times, minimize future risk and optimize health.

Our team is committed to making sure you are “treated like the Pro’s and cared for like Family” at Peak Performance, with attention to the 3D in each of us…enabling the mind, restoring the body physically, and uplifting and comforting the spirit!

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Why Choose Peak?

1 Established in 2005, over 115 years combined experience!
2 We are Physical Therapists & Movement Specialists – Rochester’s only Fellowship Trained Specialists in Applied Functional Science.
3 We guarantee your satisfaction.
4 You have the right to choose your Physical Therapy Provider – choose carefully.
5 We always work closely with your physician to assure optimal results.
6 We accept most insurance plans.
7 If high deductible, co-pay, and co-insurance costs are a concern, we can often help.
8 You may change your Physical Therapy provider at any time.
9 We are pleased to offer second opinions– no obligation.

Meet our Team

Zachary Belles

PTA, CAFS, CES

Physical Therapist Assistant

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Allison Pulvino

PT, MSPT, CMP, FAFS

Physical Therapist

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Dr. William Slapar

PT, DPT, OCS, CMTPT, FAFS

Physical Therapist

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Dr. Andrew Neumeister

PT, DPT, FAFS

Physical Therapist

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Karen Napierala

PT, AT, MS, CAFS

Physical Therapist / Patients Account Representative

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Mike Napierala

PT, SCS, CSCS, GPS, FAFS

Owner/Physical Therapist

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Core Values

Dedicated “Transformers”

We wake up every day to be “difference makers”. Elevate the mind, body, and spirit to new and better places.

Encouragers

We are advocates...we encourage and uplift. Pouring into and empowering you to expect more, to be more, and do more.

Goldilocks Effect...finding your “Just Right”

There is no “one size fits all” - YOU matter, so we listen! Finding what’s “right” for you...personalized to YOUR needs and YOUR abilities.

Daily Built Excellence

Our call to excellence demands lifelong learning...getting better every single day! We learn and grow to help and serve better.

Pay It Forward

We honor those who’ve helped us by giving back before asked. We share our time and talents and our resources with those in need.

Fun

Smiling and laughing lifts the spirit. New and old friends share in your wins and cheer on your victories.

Authentic Function is King

Our “team jersey” is being Rochester’s experts in functional biomechanics. Discovering underlying truths that “make sense” to your body and produce successful outcomes!

How It All Began

Mike and Karen moved to Rochester in 1995, with 2 children (Jordan and Kyle) in tow. Mike arrived first, having taken a position at University Sports Medicine, and lived with college best friends while travelling back to Ohio on weekends initially. Karen took a part-time position at PT Services of Rochester to enable her most important “job” – being a mom. Each learned much and further honed their skills through those early years in Rochester. Mandy was born in 1997 and they were able to juggle schedules to keep one of them at home at all times. They each had already embarked on a close connection with Gary Gray and the Gray Institute where the foundations of more deeply understanding human movement and biomechanical problem solving were being grown.

1995

After 9 years at University Sports Medicine with much prayer and lots of discussion, Mike felt the calling to move in a new direction. Peak Performance was born, opening its doors in East Rochester in January of 2005. Karen joined soon after and eventually took on both office/billing and physical therapy duties as the kids got older. Mike and Karen were fortunate to have the opportunity to add a 4th kid to their home team, Henry, a classmate of Jordan’s in high school. As the family team grew so did the work team. The kids have cleaned the clinic and they’ve been patients too, as the bumps and bruises from sports took their toll. They’ve trained at the clinic to prepare for battle on the field and courts. It’s been a family affair in so many ways.

2005

Blessed with a host of awesome team members over the years, a thirst for excellence, and the unique functional testing and exercise training acquired from the Gray Institute Peak Performance has grown steadily over the years. Peak now has 10 team members including 5 PT’s and one PTA. In 2021 we evaluated over 850 patients who were helped over 10,000 total visits in the year. Our success is grounded in the gifts and talents each of our team members has been blessed with...each having both a heart for making a difference in people’s lives and equipped with knowledge and skills that allow us to serve others. We’re proud that our team is unmatched in it’s function training...with every provider having either Certification or Fellowship level training in Applied Functional Science® from the Gray Institute. That’s unparalled not only in Rochester but throughout upstate NY. We are committed to improving our knowledge and skills. We accept that we are not perfect but we strive to learn and grow from our mistakes...and, we know that we are not in control of “healing” bodies. But, we are humbled and thankful to get to play a part in creating environments that stimulate the body in it’s path toward recovery. To do what it was designed to do. We love the challenge of trouble shooting underlying causes and of finding effective ways to help patients work around their pains so they can exercise tissues back toward competence and resiliency. We also love the opportunity to creatively prepare people for those higher level demands of work, and life and sport that so many yearn to go back to.

2021