Beau Saunier, DPT

Bridging the Gap: How Physical Therapists and Personal Trainers Can Work Together

This presentation reviews how the profession of physical therapy has grown. It describes how physical therapists and personal trainer have similar backgrounds and how we can work as a team to provide long term health and wellness benefits.
Learning Objectives:

1. The education background and scope of practice of PT’s
2. Develop strategies to help PT’s and CPT’s work together
3. Have any questions answered about PT services answered

Who is Beau Saunier?

Beau is a native of south Louisiana, growing up in Delcombre. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Kinesiology - Exercise science. From there He attended the University of St. Augustine for Health Science in Austin, TX. He graduated with a doctorate of Physical Therapy in April 2015. Beau has received advanced training in manual therapy as well as non-operative and post-operative orthopedics. Beau is now a staff therapist at LaBorde Therapy Center and treats patients in the Lafayette and Morgan City office and will be seeing patients in a new facility in Youngsville, La.