Dr. Matthew Silver is a coach, educator, physical therapist, and founder of Alpha Project Phyzio & Performance. He has been a distance runner for the past 13 years.
While a freshman in high school, he fell in love with distance running and hasn’t looked back since. He was first exposed to physical therapy after suffering from runner’s knee and low back pain while running cross country. After high school, he ran collegiately for 2 years where he set his college’s 8K record and made the all-conference team. This was bittersweet as he could not finish the last two years of his collegiate career due to this recurrent and persistent knee and low back pain despite going to multiple medical practitioners.
Believing his competitive running career was over, he decided to focus on his education by learning as much as he could about running injuries and physical therapy. He started to notice a trend of runners getting prescribed cookie-cutter exercises, being told they need “new shoes”, or, even worse, being advised to stop running altogether to avoid their pain, rather than addressing the underlying dysfunction that is causing their pain. Because of this, he has developed a unique interest in injury prevention and rehabilitation through movement quality.
We are often told by medical practitioners of our limitations and the things we cannot do. Dr. Silver is on a mission to change that. He believes you deserve to run long distances, often, and with no pain. He doesn’t look at an injury at face value, but rather peels away the layers of an injury and finds the root cause of the issue. This allows him to not only guide you toward resolving your pain and dysfunction but also improve your running form and movement quality.
The world of cookie-cutter exercises, pills, arbitrary surgeries, and useless cortisone shots is over. Welcome to Alpha Project!
