It was the kind of administrative work that physical therapists do all the time. Sarah Gallagher, PT, DPT, was on her computer sending and receiving emails. In this case, in the fall of 2022, she was corresponding with a title company about a property her Colorado practice was planning to purchase. Gallagher, a board-certified clinical specialist in neurologic physical therapy, had joined South Valley Physical Therapy, a neurovestibular clinic in Denver, almost exactly a decade earlier. She bought the practice in 2018. Now she was preparing to move it to a new space.
