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Built exclusively for outpatient physical therapy clinics

Stop letting a surgeon's referral list
decide how full your schedule is.

Referrals dry up. Medicare cuts your per visit pay again. Patients quit the second the pain eases. We put your clinic in front of people searching for relief right now, back pain, sciatica, a blown out shoulder, post op recovery, pelvic health, and turn them into self referred patients who finish the full plan of care. A pipeline you own, not one you wait on.

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Why owning a PT clinic feels harder every year

You are a great clinician. The economics still keep you up at night.

Nobody opened a clinic to chase referrals and fight authorizations. But that is where most owners spend their energy. Here is what we hear on almost every call.

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The fee schedule keeps shrinking

Another CMS cut, another year of doing more visits for less. You cannot out hustle a reimbursement rate that drops while rent and payroll climb.

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One referral source can sink you

When a single ortho group or a hospital system pulls its referrals in house, your schedule has a hole you did not see coming and cannot fill fast.

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Patients ghost after the pain eases

You have 16 authorized visits and they vanish after 4. The plan of care never finishes, outcomes suffer, and so does the revenue you counted on.

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Authorizations eat your week

Hours on the phone fighting for visits that barely pay, while the front desk should be confirming evals and keeping the calendar full.

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Cash services sit underused

Dry needling, blood flow restriction, sports performance and pelvic health pay full value, but nobody local knows you offer them.

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Word of mouth is real but slow

Your patients love you. That fills some weeks and starves others. It is not a plan you can forecast payroll against.

If two or more of those hit home, the call is worth 30 minutes. Book a call →
Predictive projections

See what a full plan of care, on repeat, is worth to your clinic.

Drag the sliders. Based on real campaign data from outpatient PT clinics, here is what a steady stream of new plans of care looks like financially when patients actually complete them.

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$2k$5k$10k$15k$20k
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$500$2.5k$5k$7.5k$10k
A finished plan of care often runs 10 to 20 visits. Cash pay and hybrid clinics commonly see $1.5k to $3k per episode of care. The number jumps when patients stay through discharge instead of quitting at visit 4. We calibrate this on the call.
New physical therapy patients this month
10 to 15
New plans of care started
Revenue from them
$20,000 to $30,000
Patients × avg plan value
12-month cumulative revenue
$240k to $360k
If you run the system all year
Return on ad spend
10x to 15x
Revenue per $1 spent
These are real ranges from PT campaigns we have run. Your actual numbers depend on your cash pay mix, your discharge rate, and your market. On the call, we map this to your clinic specifically. Get your personalized PT projection →
How it works

A physical therapy growth system, not another ad guy.

Most agencies run generic "PT ads" and hand you a list of price shoppers waiting on a doctor's note. We built a system that does one thing: deliver self referred patients who start and finish a full plan of care, on repeat, without depending on any one referral source.

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Intent capture

We meet people the moment they search for relief in your city, low back pain, sciatica, rotator cuff, post op knee, plantar fasciitis, pelvic floor, and your specific specialties. Real pain, real buying intent, not vague wellness curiosity.

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Direct access filter

A funnel built to pull in self referred and cash pay patients who do not need to wait on a script. We pre frame the value of one on one care so the people who book are ready to commit, not hunting for the lowest copay.

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Completion focus

Attracting the right patient is half of retention. We attract by outcome and set expectations up front so patients arrive understanding real recovery takes a full plan, then we reactivate the ones who quit early.

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Booked on your calendar

The only KPI that matters: evaluations on the schedule that turn into completed plans of care. Everything ladders up to that number, not clicks or vanity reach.

Ready to see it applied to your PT clinic? Book a call →
Why this is different

We made it stupid easy to start.

No lock ins. No smoke. No fine print. If it doesn't work, you leave.

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No long term contracts

Month to month. You stay because your eval schedule is full, not because a contract says you have to.

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No setup fees

We don't charge you to start. Your investment goes where it belongs, into getting you new physical therapy patients.

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No referral dependence

Stop waiting on surgeons, hospital systems and insurance to feed you. We build a patient pipeline you actually own and control.

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One focus only

Plans of care started and finished at full value. Clicks and vanity metrics are noise. We report on what fills your treatment slots.

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Built for healthcare compliance

Meta and Google have strict rules around health claims and pain related targeting. We know what gets flagged and how to write copy that runs without policy headaches.

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Up and running in days

From signed to first PT campaign in under 14 days. No six week discovery phase. We have done this in your exact vertical.

What to expect

The physical therapy numbers, unfiltered.

At $2,000/month here's what a typical PT funnel looks like based on real campaigns we've run.

Clicks
Patients landing on your offer page
$2 to $6 CPC
Leads
Qualified pain and injury inquiries
$18 to $40 CPL
Evaluations booked
Confirmed initial evaluations
$40 to $85 CPA
Show ups
Actually walk through the door
60% to 80% show rate
Plans of care started
Acquired & first plan booked
$120 to $260 CAC
Your actual numbers depend on your cash pay mix, your discharge rate, and your market competition. On the call, we'll map this to your clinic.
Real clinics. Real results.

Physical therapy clinics like yours are already seeing it work.

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"We were completely dependent on a couple of orthopedic surgeons for referrals. One slowed down and we panicked. Now we generate our own patients and I finally sleep at night knowing the schedule is ours."

Dr. Mark R., PT, DPT · Physical Therapy
Wellness Center in Fort Lauderdale
5x ROAS in month 3
IV Clinic in South Florida
12 to 15 new patients each month
Specialty Medical Practice in Fort Lauderdale
4.2x ROAS in month 2
TRT & HGH Clinic in Miami
+41 new patients in 90 days
Dr. Olayemi Osiyemi (Doctor Triple O)
Trusts EtherealMinds to manage all of his businesses (4+)
Sleep Apnea & Sleep Study Center
+30 new patients in 60 days
Physical therapy evals, last 7 days
📅 New low back pain eval · Tue 9:00am · $$$
📅 New post op knee rehab · Tue 1:30pm · $$$
📅 New rotator cuff eval · Wed 11:00am · $$$
📅 New sports injury eval · Wed 4:00pm · $$$
📅 New pelvic floor consult · Thu 10:30am · $$$
📅 New sciatica eval · Fri 2:00pm · $$$
+11 more this week
Results vary. Shown examples are representative of physical therapy and healthcare engagements we've run, not a guarantee.
Who this is for

This works if you…

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    Own or run an outpatient physical therapy clinic, sports rehab, or orthopedic PT practice offering manual therapy, dry needling, post op rehab, pelvic floor, or similar.
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    Have open eval slots and gaps in the schedule and volume that swings month to month.
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    Are tired of depending on physician referrals and watching the fee schedule shrink every year.
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    Want to grow cash pay and direct access services with margins insurance volume cannot touch.
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    Are losing patients before discharge and want people who finish the full plan of care.
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    Want a trackable system, not guessing whether next month's caseload will hold up.
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    Are ready to invest in growth ($2k+/mo ad spend) and want measured, predictable patient flow.
Who this isn't for

Don't book a call if you…

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    Only want the cheapest insurance copay patients and nothing else.
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    Don't have a licensed physical therapist or medical provider on staff.
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    Are looking for the cheapest agency on the market.
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    Expect guaranteed patient numbers (nobody serious in this niche will promise that).
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    Can't commit at least $2,000/month to ad spend.
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    Aren't in healthcare. We really mean it, healthcare only.
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    Want to micromanage every ad. Trust us to run the system.
Straight answers

Questions physical therapy owners actually ask us.

Will cash pay actually work in my market, or only the wealthy zip codes?

Cash pay works far wider than most owners think, but only when the offer is framed around the outcome and not the price. We target people sick of waiting on authorizations, sick of being handed to a tech, and willing to pay for one on one time with a doctor of physical therapy. In most metros that audience is large enough to fill several evals a week. On the call we look at your real zip codes and tell you straight whether a cash, hybrid or insurance heavy model fits.

My patients drop out after two or three visits. Can marketing fix that?

Half of that problem starts before the eval. When someone books off a price ad, they ghost the moment the pain eases. We attract patients by the result they want and pre frame what real recovery takes, so the people who arrive already expect a full plan of care. We also rebook and reactivate past patients who quit early, often the fastest revenue in the building.

Can you bring patients without a physician referral?

Yes, and that is the whole point. Every state allows some form of direct access, and self referred patients are exactly who we target. We position your clinic as the first call for back pain, sciatica, a torn rotator cuff, post op recovery and pelvic health, so patients come straight to you instead of waiting weeks on a script that may never come.

Medicare keeps cutting reimbursement. How does this help me survive that?

You cannot out volume a shrinking fee schedule with insurance patients alone. The fix is a steady flow of cash pay and direct access patients for services that pay full value, dry needling, recovery and blood flow restriction, sports performance, pelvic health and manual therapy. We build that pipeline so your revenue stops depending on whatever CMS decides each year.

My referrals from orthopedic groups are drying up. Why?

Hospital systems and physician owned physical therapy practices are keeping referrals in house, and that trend only deepens. The clinics that survive own their own patient flow. We build you a pipeline that does not lean on any single surgeon or group, so one source going cold never threatens your schedule again.

Do you require long term contracts?

No. Month to month, no setup fees. You stay because your eval calendar is full of the right patients, not because a contract traps you.

4 physical therapy slots open this month

If you want a patient pipeline you actually own,
we'll show you exactly how it works for your clinic.

Free 30 minute strategy call. No pitch. We look at your cash pay mix, your market, your services and your budget, and tell you straight whether this is right for your physical therapy clinic.

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