FLOe FOUNDATION

Movementis your body'sfirst language.

Your body has been adapting around something. We listen for the pattern beneath the painful place, create room for change, and help you practice what allows that change to last.

WexfordIn person·By Appointment
Physician-LedDr. Thomas Burnett
Two PathwaysReset·Restoration
WHY FOUNDATION BEGINS HERE

Fascia First.

Because the body never moves in pieces. The painful place matters. But it is not always the whole story.

A provider in black scrubs examines a client's leg on an examination table in a clinic setting.

Fascia is the connective-tissue network that helps organize how muscles, joints, nerves, vessels, and surrounding tissues relate to one another. It helps transmit force, allows neighboring structures to glide, and adapts to the positions and loads repeated over time.

Fascia does not explain everything. It is where we begin because it helps us see the body as connected architecture rather than a collection of separate parts.

When one region loses options, another often takes over. The painful place may be the source, a compensation, or both. Foundation looks at the relationships among them—and tests what changes when breath, glide, movement, and load improve.

Breath changes pressure. Muscle contraction influences the return of blood and lymph. Fascia distributes force. The nervous system coordinates the response.

Movement is where these systems meet.

Who Foundation is For

Recognize yourself here.

A thoughtful process that begins by listening, then brings the details together before recommending what comes next.

Stiffness that has quietly become normal. You want getting out of a chair, turning to look behind you, or reaching the floor to stop being a decision.
Pain that moves, or keeps returning to the same place. You want to understand what is driving it, not simply quiet it again.
Recovery that takes longer than it used to. You want a difficult week, workout, trip, or long day to cost you less.
A body you have started planning around. You want the round of golf, the trip, the garden, the floor with your grandchildren—or simply the freedom to move without negotiating with your body.
How Foundation Works

Four steps. Every one is shared.

Physical change is not one appointment. It is something your body has to learn, and then hold.

01 We listen, screen, and map.

We begin with your destination and your history. Then we observe range of motion, balance, gait, breathing mechanics, load tolerance, and the ways your body has learned to compensate.

We identify a small number of meaningful measures so both of us can recognize change.

02 We create an opening.

Hands, needles, sound, light, orthobiologics or another clinical tool may be used when it addresses a specific barrier found during the assessment.

The question is never simply, “Which treatment should we do?”

It is: “What is limiting flow or function, what tool fits that finding, and what change should we expect?”

03 We integrate the change.

A temporary opening is not yet a new pattern.

When clinically appropriate, we breathe, move, or load the area again after treatment.

This gives the body an opportunity to use the movement that has become available and helps us determine whether our reasoning was correct.

04 You practice. We reassess and adapt.

Between visits, you receive a simple, specific plan: often one breath practice, one or two movements, a walking or loading goal, and something meaningful to track.

Your body responds to repetition more than to one good afternoon. You carry the work into your days.

We remain accountable for making the plan understandable, realistic, measurable, and responsive to what your body tells us next.

THE WORK BETWEEN VISITS

The clinic creates an opening. Your days teach the body what to do with it.

Most lasting change is built through simple actions performed repeatedly and intentionally: breathing, walking, moving through available range, gradually accepting load, recovering, and returning again.

Every day becomes another opportunity to remind the body of what is possible. You define the destination. We help map a path that can evolve with you. You bring the practice and honest feedback. We bring clinical judgment, clear reasoning, and an obligation to adapt the plan when the evidence changes.

Together, we build accountability into the process.

Two Pathways

Twodepths.Onediscipline.

Foundation runs at two depths. Reset is for a body that feels tight, heavy, or slow to bounce back. Restoration is for a pattern that has been there a while. Your first visit helps decides which one fits.


01.

FLOe Foundation Reset

Create room. Build momentum.

Reset is the focused Foundation pathway for a body that feels stiff, heavy, generally sore, or slow to recover—or for a more contained movement barrier that does not require a larger restoration process.

Every Reset begins with a destination and a movement map. Your plan then combines the smallest useful amount of in-office support with a repeatable home practice.

The goal is not only to feel different when you leave. It is to determine whether the change carries into your movement, recovery, and daily life.

Who it is for

Your body feels tight, heavy, or slow to recover

Chronically sore or restricted without one clear injury

Those ready for a Reset before deeper Restoration

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At home continuation
Breathwork
Mobility work
Hydration and mineral support
02.

FLOe Foundation Restoration

For patterns that have had time to become organized.

Restoration is the deeper physical-flow pathway for persistent, recurrent, or interconnected patterns involving pain, mobility loss, compensation, guarding, previous injury, or multiple regions influencing one another.

It is not defined by using stronger treatments. It is defined by more complete mapping, thoughtful sequencing, progressive integration, and enough time to learn what the body can change—and what it can hold.

A procedure may help create an opening. Restoration helps the body turn that opening into coordinated movement, greater capacity, and renewed confidence under load.

who it is for

Pain or restriction that has begun to shape how you move

An older injury your body has learned to work around

Mobility or confidence in movement that has not fully returned

Change with Reset, but a pattern that continues to return

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In the office at Wexford
Dry needling
Trigger point injections
At home continuation
Breathwork
Mobility work
Partnered Care
Chiropractor
Fascial specialist
Massage therapy
CLINICAL TOOLS

Tools with a purpose. Never the whole path.

These services may be used within Reset or Restoration. After appropriate screening, some may also be booked individually. Each one must answer four questions: What are we addressing? Why does this tool fit? What change should we expect? How will that change be integrated or evaluated?

In the office at Wexford

WHAT IT IS
A thin, sterile filiform needle is placed into a selected muscle or soft-tissue target identified during examination.

WHY WE MAY CHOOSE IT
Dry needling may be considered when localized sensitivity, excess muscle tone, or a myofascial pain pattern appears to be limiting motion or contributing to symptoms.

HOW IT FITS
Its role is usually to create a short-term window in which movement feels more available. We then reassess and, when appropriate, use movement or loading to help the body make use of that window.

WHAT TO EXPECT
A brief pressure or twitch response may occur, and temporary soreness is possible. The area treated, expected response, alternatives, and aftercare are reviewed with you first.

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WHAT IT IS
A small amount of a selected solution or medication is injected into a focal trigger point by a qualified clinician. The exact injectate and its purpose are explained before treatment.

WHY WE MAY CHOOSE IT
It may be considered when examination reproduces a clearly localized pain pattern and that focal sensitivity is meaningfully limiting movement or function.

HOW IT FITS
The injection addresses a localized barrier. It does not, by itself, retrain the movement or loading pattern surrounding that barrier. Reassessment and integration determine what should come next.

WHAT TO EXPECT
Pressure, temporary tenderness, or post-procedure soreness may occur. Benefits, risks, alternatives, and procedure-specific aftercare are reviewed during consent.

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WHAT IT IS

Using real-time ultrasound, a qualified clinician guides a needle to a selected interface between fascial layers. A small amount of a chosen sterile solution is introduced to gently separate the planes and create space for the tissues to move relative to one another. The target, injectate, and purpose are explained before treatment.

WHY WE MAY CHOOSE IT

It may be considered when examination and ultrasound suggest that a focal fascial interface is contributing to a familiar pattern of pain, restriction, or altered movement—particularly when that pattern has not responded fully to mobility work or less-direct treatment.

HOW IT FITS

Hydrodissection creates an opportunity for glide; it does not, by itself, teach the body how to use or retain that change. We reassess movement afterward and determine what breathwork, mobility, or progressive loading should follow.
In selected cases, gentle stationary or gliding cupping may be used before or after the procedure. The lift and movement created by the cups can help encourage tissue excursion and support fascial glide through the treated region. Cupping is an optional adjunct within the plan, not a substitute for reassessment and integration.

WHAT TO EXPECT

You may feel pressure, fullness, spreading of fluid, or brief discomfort during treatment. Temporary tenderness, bruising, or post-procedure soreness may occur. Benefits, limitations, risks—including bleeding, infection, reaction to the injectate, or injury to nearby structures—alternatives, and procedure-specific aftercare are reviewed during consent.

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WHAT IT IS
A noninvasive application of red and near-infrared light delivered to a specific tissue at a carefully selected dose. The light is absorbed by structures within cells and may influence mitochondrial activity and cellular signaling involved in pain, inflammation, and tissue recovery.

It does not simply “give cells energy.” It provides a light-based signal that the tissue may use to change its response.

WHY WE MAY CHOOSE IT
It may be considered for an irritated tendon, joint, muscle, or other soft tissue that remains sensitive or is recovering slowly—especially when reducing irritability could make movement and progressive loading more comfortable.

It can also provide a gentle, noninvasive starting point when needles, injections, or more intensive interventions are not yet necessary or preferred.

HOW IT FITS
Laser may improve the local environment, but it does not correct the movement, loading, or recovery pattern that contributed to the problem.

We often use it to create a better window for what comes next: mobility, progressive loading, fascial work, movement retraining, or a return to activity. The response is reassessed rather than assuming that every condition requires a predetermined series.

WHAT TO EXPECT
Protective eyewear is worn throughout treatment. The laser is applied over the selected area using settings based on the tissue, depth, treatment goal, and individual response.

Most people experience gentle warmth and little or no discomfort. Temporary redness, warmth, tenderness, or a short-lived change in symptoms may occur. Relevant medical conditions, medications, skin integrity, sensation, and other precautions are reviewed before treatment.

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WHAT IT IS
A noninvasive pairing of two complementary technologies. PEMF provides a gentle, low-intensity electromagnetic stimulus intended to support tissue and vascular signaling. Sequential compression sleeves rhythmically inflate from the extremities toward the center of the body, creating a physical pressure gradient that assists venous return and the movement of interstitial and lymphatic fluid.

WHY WE MAY CHOOSE IT
It may be considered when the body feels heavy, mildly puffy, depleted, or slow to recover—or when travel, prolonged sitting, reduced activity, or physical demand has interrupted your usual rhythm of movement and circulation.

HOW IT FITS
These technologies support flow in different ways: one through a noncompressive stimulus, the other through a gentle mechanical pumping pattern. Neither replaces the body’s own pumps. Breath, walking, muscle contraction, hydration, and regular movement remain the daily work that keeps blood and lymph moving.

We use the session as a supportive bridge: helping the system re-engage while you continue the practices that allow the effect to carry beyond the office.

WHAT TO EXPECT
PEMF is typically felt very subtly, if at all. Sequential compression feels like a rhythmic, gradually moving squeeze and should remain firm but comfortable. Pressure and session length are adjusted to the individual.

We screen before treatment because unexplained or one-sided swelling, suspected blood clot, acute infection, significant arterial disease, uncontrolled heart failure, pregnancy, implanted electronic devices, and other health circumstances may require medical evaluation or modified care.

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WHAT IT IS
A clinician-guided strategy for selecting specific inputs around an identified need. IV therapy delivers chosen fluids, vitamins, minerals, or NAD+ directly into circulation.

Nutraceuticals can extend targeted support into daily life. When clinically appropriate, selected peptide-based therapies may be considered separately, with their purpose, evidence, sourcing, and risks reviewed before treatment.

This is not a preset cocktail or a supplement shelf. Each component should have a reason for being there.

WHY WE MAY CHOOSE IT
It may be considered when your history, diet, laboratory findings, medications, recovery demands, or current health goals suggest that a specific form of support could be useful—particularly when oral intake alone may not be sufficient, well tolerated, or appropriate.

The recommendation begins with the need, not the product.

HOW IT FITS
Flow depends not only on open pathways, but also on what the current carries. These therapies can provide selected materials or signals, but they are not the whole instruction.

Food, sleep, light, movement, breath, and circulation help determine how the body receives and uses what is provided. We choose the smallest useful intervention, observe the response, and allow the plan to evolve with you.

WHAT TO EXPECT
Before recommending anything, we review your goals, health history, medications, supplements, allergies, relevant laboratory findings, and potential interactions. We explain what is being considered, why it was selected, what is known and uncertain, and whether monitoring is needed.

IV therapy may involve temporary discomfort, bruising, vein irritation, or infusion-related symptoms. Peptides and nutraceuticals require additional attention to indication, product quality, sourcing, regulatory status, interactions, and follow-up.

Nothing is added simply because it is available.

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PARTNERED CARE

One plan, more than one set of hands

Some patterns benefit from expertise outside our office. When clinically appropriate—and with your permission—we may coordinate with selected fascial specialists, physical or movement professionals, chiropractors, or massage therapists.

We make the introduction, share the relevant question and findings, and incorporate useful information that comes back into the plan.

You should not have to translate your entire story from one room to the next.


Where this can lead.

Foundation may be the whole path—or the place from which the next one becomes clear.

Who Leads Foundation

One physician-directed plan. Carried by a connected team.

FLOe Foundation is directed by Dr. Thomas Burnett. Members of the FLOe team and carefully selected partners may carry out different portions of the plan, while the clinical reasoning, progress, and next-step decisions remain connected.

Dr. Thomas Burnett, MD
Founder • Chief Medical Architect

Dr. Thomas Burnett, MD

Regenerative Medicine | Movement and Human Performance

Nationally recognized for his work in regenerative medicine, Dr. Burnett brings together musculoskeletal evaluation, movement assessment, and advanced nonsurgical care.

He looks beyond the painful location to understand how the body moves, distributes load, adapts, and recovers—then builds a path toward restored function, performance, and fuller participation in life.

Cat Kahn, RN, BSN
Registered Nurse • Care team

Cat Kahn, RN, BSN

Drawing on a background in neonatal nursing, Cat brings deep clinical experience, careful attention, and a calm, steady presence to intravenous and advanced therapy care across FLOe.

Her work includes IV nutrients, NAD+, IV ozone, TRuDose, and other physician-guided protocols. She helps ensure that every treatment is delivered with precision, feels personally supported, and remains connected to the broader care plan.

You bring the destination.We help map the path.

You bring the destination. We help map the path.

Tell us what you want to return to—or move toward. We listen, observe your breath and movement, and build a path that continues beyond the visit.

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