Mr. Niel Santiago, PT, is a member of Summit Health’s Physical Therapy team. His area of expertise involves utilizing different techniques of manual therapy and exercise to relieve spinal, upper and lower extremity symptoms and ergonomic assessment of work stations and environments.

Specifically, he uses Maitland, LPI and McKenzie manual techniques to treat spinal, B, UE and LE symptoms. Mr. Santiago’s says his approach to patient care is “to always try and obtain information regarding a patient’s job, activities at home, outside and other habits they have that could be the cause of their symptoms unless they were injured.”

What’s most important to Mr. Santiago during a patient visit is to make them feel comfortable and listen intently so he can gain their trust. He finds it most gratifying when he helps patients become pain free and can resume their everyday activities.

When not helping patients, his hobbies include running, going to the gym and traveling to Europe to sightsee and enjoy the food. He is also interested in educating the public about ergonomics and proper posture as well as how PT can relieve symptoms of pain, imbalance and weakness without medication.