About Us

Our Mission-To Improve Human Lives: Those of our patients, each other, and our greater community.

The Jackson Clinics Physical Therapy is a physical therapist-owned outpatient orthopedic practice that has locations throughout the Northern Virginia region.

TJC was founded in 2005 by Richard and Anna Jackson with the goal of becoming a world-leading physical therapy practice with education as the key to the highest quality and consistency of professional excellence and personal touch.

Today, The Jackson Clinics can best be described as a place where patients come to heal and clinicians come to grow. We are a learning organization and value life-long development of knowledge, skills and professional attitudes as our core principles.

As such, we have created world-class opportunities for professional development backed by culturally embedded measurement and accountability mechanisms to ensure that we actually deliver the quality and consistency we strive for.

While we offer over a dozen subspecialties, we primarily specialize in outpatient orthopedics and sports medicine. Our therapists and assistants possess advanced clinical skills in spinal disorders, sacroiliac joint dysfunction and peripheral joint problems, including rotator cuff injuries, knee injuries and foot and ankle pain.

Our specialty programs include oncology rehabilitation, upper and lower extremity lymphedema management, vestibular rehabilitation, pediatrics, aquatic therapy, pelvic health/women’s health, 3-dimensional running analysis, industrial rehabilitation, dry needling, custom orthotics, and more.

What it means to be a model practice.

Our Goals

Our practice was founded in 2005 by Richard and Anna Jackson with two goals. First, we set out to be a regional practice to serve the needs of the Northern Virginia community. Second, we wanted to be a model practice in all respects; clinical care, education and research. Simply stated, we have a desire to be the best practice that we can be.

In the Jackson Clinics, our mission is to improve human lives: those of our patients, of each other, and of our greater community. We take that mission very seriously and expect commitment to that mission from all team members. With world-class training and culturally embedded accountability, we feel that we will live this mission and achieve our vision of becoming a model practice in all respects.

Being a Regional Practice

We started with four locations and have grown to 21. Why did we set out to be regional practice? A regional practice gives us the ability to meet the various needs of the people we serve; physicians, patients, and insurers. Consider the following questions and answers. Do we offer advanced clinical services? Yes. Do we participate with virtually all insurance carriers? Yes. Are we near where you live? Yes. Do we have educational programs in place that foster excellence? Yes. Do we supply the reporting that physicians and payers need in a timely manner? Yes. Do we utilize advanced technology in all aspects of our practice? Yes. Are we involved in our communities and do we give back to our communities? Yes.

Where We Are Going

We feel that our commitment to education sets us apart, and will determine our ability to successfully adapt to an ever changing healthcare landscape. Some of our education efforts include:

Robust physical therapy Doctoral Student training programs: Our therapists do more than just treat patients. They are sought-after educators for Doctoral candidates in top physical therapy schools across the country.

APTA clinic instructor training credentials are required as a TJC standard with teaching as an expectation for all PT’s.

Advanced teaching/mentor training programs: Our most experienced therapists have additional mentorship training, allowing them to serve as faculty members in our advanced team, residency, and fellowship training programs.

Robust early professional education and training including formal 6 month mentorship with residency faculty mentors, and career tracking/guidance from senior management team.

APTA Accredited Orthopedic Residency program (founded in 2010 and re-accredited in 2015)
This program is one of only two in the state of Virginia, and has graduated more than 30 Orthopedic Certified Specialists since inception. Graduates are experts in orthopedic physical therapy and possess advanced knowledge and skills when compared to others in the field. Most alumni become clinic directors and faculty members for TJC after graduation.

Almost 50% of our therapists have advanced orthopedic certification through the APTA (OCS) whereas only 6% of all therapists in the United States have an OCS (June, 2017 data).

APTA Accredited Upper Extremity Athlete Fellowship Program (founded in 2015)
This program is one of only three in the country, and draws applicants from all over the USA. Graduates are truly world-class therapists in management of neck, shoulder and elbow conditions of all kinds. They contribute to research, they lecture nationally, and serve TJC and the profession at an elite level after program completion.

Foot and Ankle Fellowship (founded in 2018)
This program is the first of its kind in the USA. TJC is seeking accreditation through the APTA and is contributing to definition of standards of excellence in this focus of study for the entire profession.

Unlimited access to continuing professional education for ALL of our clinical team members, including 17+ courses taught in house per year.

Faculty assignments in Ethiopia and Kenya service learning programs:
TJC therapists serve as mentors, clinical faculty, and formal teaching faculty for: The first Doctoral program in physical therapy in the continent of Africa (founded by the Jackson Clinics foundation in partnership with Regis University) and for an advanced diploma in orthopedics program in Kenya (also founded by the TJC foundation).

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Specialty training (including but not limited to): Oncology rehabilitation, upper and lower extremity lymphedema management, vestibular rehabilitation, pediatrics, aquatic therapy, pelvic health/women’s health, LSVT BIG therapy for Parkinson’s care, running analysis, bike fitting, cross fit, industrial rehabilitation, dry needling, custom orthotics

In 2010 we were awarded the “Practice of The Year” award by the Private Practice Section (PPS) of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). This award is given annually to one practice in the country that demonstrates excellence in practice and an enduring contribution to the practice of physical therapy.

Our Quality & Consistency

Quality and consistency of care are the cornerstones of our practice. Everything we do as a company is directed towards developing and fostering these behaviors. Quality means living up to our vision to be a world-leading practice. We invest in the education of our teams so they can design programs of care that have been proven to be effective treatment interventions. You can expect individualized, hands on care.

Consistency means delivering the professional excellence that you expect EVERY TIME. Consistency is achieved because all professional staff use the same evidence based evaluation formats in assessing your condition. It is the evaluation that guides the treatments chosen for you by the therapist. Further, we understand that two things are required for you to improve. First, patient education is essential. You must understand your condition. Second, the therapist cannot do it all. You must be an active participant in your care.

Affiliations

Community Service

Community service has always been a hallmark of our company. We encourage our employees to give back whenever they can and raise awareness for great causes. Volunteering, donations, and education are integral parts of our community.

Triple Aim

The United States spends nearly double on health care than that of the next most costly nation, yet we rank thirty-first among nations on life expectancy, thirty-sixth on infant mortality, twenty-eighth on male healthy life expectancy, and twenty-ninth on female healthy life expectancy. Something needs to change.

Improving the U.S. health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims, commonly referred to as “Triple Aim”:

At The Jackson Clinics we look at the Triple Aim initiative as follows:

  • Exceptional patient experience by concentrating on the six dimensions of health care performance, (safety, effectiveness, patient-centric care, timeliness, efficiency and equity). At TJC we approach each patient as an individual with unique needs and goals. The clinical care staff works as a team to promote effective care, efficiency and timeliness. The patient is the center of our attention, as are the patient’s individual goals.
  • Better health for our patient population through measureable quality outcomes. We compare our outcome data to a national database to ensure that we deliver exceptional, evidence based care for every patient.
  • Reducing per capita cost of care. This links with the second item listed above. We strive to have our outcomes for cost of care less than the national averages in all categories by developing evidence based, patient centric plans of care.