Nancy Ortolani P.T.,I.M.T.,C.
Nancy Ortolani P.T.,I.M.T.,C. is the Clinical Manager of CenterIMT, Inc.Nancy graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Physical Therapy. She spent over 10 years working for the Shock Trauma Center of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems at the University of Maryland Medical System, in the Intensive Care Unit, as well as acute and rehabilitation settings. Acute care specialties included chest Physical Therapy and mobilization of the multiple trauma patient, working with acute head and spinal cord trauma, and the multiple injured orthopedic trauma patient. In 1996, Nancy also was supervisor for the inpatient orthopedic trauma rehabilitation unit and later the outpatient physical therapy unit, where she developed protocols for treating patients recovering from multiple fractures. She developed an aquatics protocol for an aggressive approach to aquatic therapy for the trauma orthopedic patient, which she presented at the American Physical Therapy Association National Convention in 1988. Nancy has lectured on orthopedic trauma Physical Therapy as an adjunct lecturer to University of Maryland Physical Therapy students; at department sponsored continuing education seminars for therapists; to orthopedic residents; and presented a talk titled "Rehabilitation Challenges of Lower Extremity Fractures" at the Twentieth Annual Fall Symposium on Selected Topics of the Femur and Tibia.
Nancy co-authored an article published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery titled Functional Evaluation of the Shoulder after Vascularized Transfer of the Latissimus Dorsi Muscle (Brumback RJ, McBride MS, Ortolani NC J Bone Joint Surg; March 1992 74-A; pp 377-382), which researched functional outcomes after free latissimus dorsi muscle flaps for reconstructive surgery.
Nancy has been studying Integrative Manual Therapy since 1995 and is certified. She has studied with the Institute of Functional Medicine, and is a graduate of their program "Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice".
As teaching faculty for Dialogues in Contemporary Rehabilitation, Nancy has taught nationally and internationally. She also serves on the Department of Cardiac Habilitation for The Connecticut School of Integrative Manual Therapy.
