Dr. Lauren Mueller

Dr. Lauren Mueller is the Clinical Director here, which means the standard the other clinicians work to is partly hers to hold. She has been a clinical instructor since 2018, teaching student clinicians on the floor while carrying her own caseload, and that is a harder job than it sounds: a student watches how you reason, not just what you do with your hands, so the reasoning has to be legible.

Most of her week is orthopedics and sports medicine. Shoulders, backs, hips and knees, the ordinary catalogue of things that stop working in the middle of an ordinary week. The specialty she is best known for is golf. She is TPI certified at Medical 2, and a golf evaluation with her looks nothing like a lesson. It starts on the table and on the floor, testing how much your hips rotate, whether your thoracic spine turns or your low back turns for it, and what your lead shoulder can actually do at the top of the swing. Then it works backward: this restriction, therefore that compensation, therefore the ache that shows up on the back nine and not the front.

Golfers who book this are rarely chasing distance. They have noticed that the second half of a round costs more than it used to, and they would like to understand why before they change their swing to hide it.

That reasoning is the same whether or not there is a club involved. The point of a cause-first evaluation is that the place it hurts and the reason it hurts are often two different addresses, and the plan is written to the second one. Her credential line also carries a CDN certification, and every visit with her is 60 minutes, one-on-one, with no handoff partway through.