His Story

Gregg Johnson is one of the founding partners of Johnson and Johnson Physical Therapy. A 1971 graduate of the physical therapy program at University of Southern California (USC).  Prior to graduation he was selected to attend a one-year residency under Maggie Knott PT at Kaiser Rehabilitation Center in Vallejo, CA to be trained in the world famous PNF approach.  At the completion of the training, he was asked to continue as a staff member and faculty and remained for a total of 7 years.  After leaving Kaiser Vallejo, he and Vicky Saliba opened a cash based private practice in Marin County California.  This successful practice is believed to be the first physical therapy cash-based clinic in the USA.  In 1978, he and Vicky Saliba Johnson developed the Institute of Physical Art (IPA), through which they have trained PT’s worldwide the Functional Manual Therapy® System they developed. 

Gregg is world-renowned for his contributions to the Physical Therapy profession in the areas of soft tissue mobilization and vagus nerve treatment, as well as co-founder of the Functional Manual Therapy® system of patient care utilized by over 50,000 therapists worldwide. Gregg brings the highest level of patient management and treatment to the community of Steamboat Springs. When not teaching somewhere in the US, Europe, or Japan, Gregg is doing what he loves most, educating the Fellows at JJPT and treating patients. His philosophy that all human beings have existing potential sets the standard of care at JJPT.