Newly relocated in downtown Columbia, Climb Performance Therapies, LLC is a cash-based private practice uniting the knowledge of a physical therapist and registered dietitian. Climb is owned and operated by Brittany Ryan, DPT and Lydia Fowler, MS, RD, LDN. Over the last year, they have created a space that empowers members of the community by giving them the nutritional and physical tools they need to improve their health. Ryan and Fowler have each been in Columbia, Tennessee for several years. Ryan has been a physical therapist in mainly outpatient settings, while Fowler has been a registered dietitian in both the hospital and corporate settings. They became friends through a local run group in 2019. Continuing to grow as friends, they shared frustrations about the current healthcare model including the overuse of medications, patients having unnecessary surgeries, and lack of preventative education. They shared similar findings about their patient population suffering with chronic pain have no further resources past masking the pain with medications. Passionate to find a solution, they started to discuss what it would look like if they combined their professions into one setting. They knew in order to make lasting change in their patients’ lives, they needed to connect how people move their body with how they fuel their body. By doing this, they would allow patients to be pain free, recover from an injury or surgery faster, as well as prevent injury or disease. In the fall of 2020, they began to feel a strong pull from the Lord to enter into business together, and after just a few short months of dreaming and planning, Climb Performance Therapies was established.