11+ years Experience

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 Skip is the President and Founder of Body Specs, Inc. Skip has over 25 years of experience in orthopedic rehabilitation of sport-related injuries, physical development and sports performance. The popularity or 'buzz' regarding Body Specs! refreshing approach to orthopedic rehabilitation and physique development is making him one of the most sought after speakers for physical therapists and personal trainers. He has a diverse clientele ranging from non-athletes to adolescent athletes to the professional athlete. He has established a respectable reputation with area orthopedic surgeons and other personal trainers for his ability to resolve chronic sport related injuries through post-rehabilitation/biomechanical performance enhancement programs when conventional methods have failed.

Skip has given numerous lectures at the university and clinical levels on improving methods for rehabilitation for return to sport and improving performance. Often he is asked to return because of his refreshing, fun, and thought provoking approach. Many anxiously look to Skip for relief of painful conditions that have not responded to other treatments. Bunton's clients admire his upbeat nature and genuine expressions of concern. He and his team of associates make it a point to develop positive relationships that help encourage patients in the course of their physical development and injury management.

Bunton believed the high-tech, computerized machines used by therapists and trainers actually increased the strain on the body. Guided by the understanding that symptoms often appear at places in the body other than where the pain is being generated, Bunton listened carefully to his clients and biomechanically analyzed the causes of their dysfunction and pain, as well as the ways in which they were compensating for them. Using that information and his knowledge of anatomy and physiology, Bunton simplified his approach to improving athletic performance, and rehabilitation of chronic orthopedic ailments that hampered functional progression especially in sports.

He is an award winning author whose works have been published in Journal of Athletic Training, Mosbys Yearbook in Sports Medicine, National Institute of Sports Medicine (United Kingdom) and Athletic Therapy: Health Care Perspectives.

He is a continuing education provider for the, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SPORTS MEDICINE, NATIONAL STRENGTH CONDITIONING ASSOC., AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EXERCISE. and USAT. He is the author of Return to Extraordinary Performance: The Runner. Voted Top 100 Trainers in America by Mens Journal 2 consecutive years. He received his BS in Biology from Siena Heights College, during this time he interned with Gary Gray, considered the 'father of the functional revolution'. He completed his Masters of Science at Indiana State University in Athletic Training/Orthopedic Sports Rehabilitation
 

 

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