Dr. Jake Lape

Dr. Jake Lape holds the doctorate, the CSCS for strength and conditioning, and a UDN-C dry needling certification, and he is this clinic’s Male Pelvic Floor Therapist. Those look like separate jobs on paper. On the floor they are the same job: find the muscle group that is not doing its share, then load it back into the work it is supposed to be doing.

Men’s pelvic health is the part most people have never heard described out loud. Pain that sits deep in the pelvis or the groin, urgency that reorganises a workday around where the bathrooms are, discomfort after a surgery, symptoms that get filed as a plumbing problem for a year or two before anyone checks whether the muscles are involved. Often they are, and muscles are what physical therapy is for. The evaluation is private, unhurried, explained before anything is done, and it does not begin with an internal exam by default.

Most men who book this waited. Not because they were not bothered, but because nobody ever told them there was a clinician whose actual specialty was this, and that the appointment would be a normal medical hour.

The other half of his schedule is sports and orthopedics: shoulders, backs, hips and knees, plus the athletes who want their return to training to be decided by a test rather than by a feeling. Dry needling sits in that half as one tool inside a plan, used on a muscle that is holding a protective pattern the rest of the plan needs released. Every visit runs 60 minutes, one-on-one.