BLAIRE ZIKRATCH-CLAYSON, DPT MAT
OWNER & FOUNDER
Blaire is a Pocatello, Idaho native who was valedictorian of Pocatello High School class of 2003. She went on to play basketball for Idaho State University for a year, and received her Bachelors of Science in Biology with Highest Honors in 2007. Blaire received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2011 from Idaho State University, graduating top of her class as Most Outstanding Student. She then accepted a position at a private practice in the Idaho Orthopedics complex, where she specialized in Sports Rehabilitation and became the Physical Therapist for Idaho State University Athletics. She also developed the return to sport (or function) ACL/knee testing combination of the Biodex and Vail tests, and together with Dr. Ken Newhouse, MD, began a new era of successful ACL rehabilitation with excellent long-term results for all patients.
In 2016, she struck out on her own and opened her own clinic, with nothing but a single portable massage table, her own equipment (mostly resistance bands), and a laptop. She was fortunate enough to have a substantial group of patients follow her to her new location, and from there, the clinic began to grow at a consistent (and rather quick) rate. She was quickly joined by Kate Youngblood, PTA (who also worked with her at the previous location), which marked the true formation of a ‘clinic’. In 2016, she received her Masters of Science in Athletic Training from ISU. Growth quickly necessitated the building of and moving to a much larger clinic in 2018, which is the current location of SSPT, and which continues to ever-expand further into the building owned by her father, Tim Zikratch, 40-year owner of In The Woods woodworking.
Blaire is Functional Movement Screen Level-II Certified, a Titleist Performance Institute Certified Golf Fitness Instructor and Level 2 Medical Professional, and Integrative Dry Needling Certified. She has since become known as the region’s sports and orthopedic rehabilitation specialist and sees athletes as well as orthopedic cases from all over southeast Idaho.
