Adam Loiacono, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS

Concierge physical therapy and performance training for athletes and business pros. After 15 years of working in professional team sports, Adam is translating high performance in sport for everyday life. Adam's vision is to lean into his experiences to help athletes and business pros optimize their performance and enhance longevity through the support of regenerative medicine. Providing exclusive, 1-on-1 care for clients, Adam provides complete care including movement & posture, strength and power, and physical endurance. Adam incorporates various technologies that he is bringing with him from professional sports to his private clients. Technologies include biomechanics analysis, force-velocity profiling, resting metabolic assessments, VO2max testing, and more. In the event of an injury or surgery, Adam provides intensive rehab for his clients. Adam's approach is combining both the art and science by integrating evidence based medicine and practical experience from professional sports.

Successful health and performance are much deeper than the X’s & O’s of training and rehabilitation. The key to success is finding the small wins each day that help us keep moving forward. Each episode Adam will pull back the curtain on sports by having conversations with industry leaders such as trainers, athletes, therapists, & coaches. The conversations will not only share insight into training, rehab, and sports but explore challenges that happen behind the scenes that influence the success of the health and performance of people. You will learn how experts & industry leaders are finding their small wins. Adam’s hope for you is that you will be able to use something that can help you elevate not only your training & rehab, but your overall health & performance in life.

In addition to continuing to manage rehabilitation and return to play, Adam manages the performance training, philosophy, and performance planning for the NBA season.

Adam is the first Director of Rehabilitation for the Phoenix Suns and has had to manage, create, and implement rehabilitation strategies and return to play processes for professional basketball players. As the lead performance therapist, Adam provides direct care to male and female professional basketball players. Additionally, Adam collaborates with athletic trainers, physical therapists, chiropractors, medical doctors, performance coaches, nutritionists, sports psychologists, basketball coaches, and front office personnel throughout the rehabilitation process. Aside from direct medical and performance player care, Adam has co-created the Athlete Performance Team's hiring process and in doing so has lead the hiring process for multiple positions.

Adam was a full-time performance therapist as part of the Atlanta Hawks Athlete Performance Team. Adam participated in day-to-day engagement with the coaching staff and players. During his time he provided rehabilitation and performance training for the NBA basketball players during practice, games, and travel. Additionally, Adam travelled to Atlanta's G-League affiliate, Erie Bay Hawks, with players who are returning from injury to continue end-stage rehabilitation. Adam also had the opportunity to accompany a rookie to the Erie Bay Hawks to support the athlete's goals of establishing daily lifestyle habits and professional routines.

A part-time position that assisted the coaching staff of the Orlando Pride, a professional women’s soccer team of the National Women’s Soccer League. Adam led player warm-ups and fitness during on-field team training, assisted with analysis of GPS player tracking data for use with weekly training plans, and programmed off-season training that included close interaction with the team nutritionist.

Adam participated in daily training and game day preparations with New England Revolution soccer players in Major League Soccer. His daily activities involved collaborating with both the technical staff and Athletic Training staff to train players through warm-ups, rehab, fitness, and strength training programs. His work continued off the field collecting, analyzing, and reporting data from different technology systems that monitor player performance. Adam utilized GPSports player tracking system, Match Analysis video, Fit for 90 subjective questionnaires, and Polar Electro heart rate data. He analyzed the data through Microsoft Excel to create daily, weekly, and season trends for both individuals and the team as a whole. Adam discussed his analysis with players on an individual basis and helped plan training when he reported to the technical staff. Adam worked closely with the Revolution Youth Academy teams as well. He initiated player monitoring by incorporating GPSports player tracking system and Fit for 90, a self-reporting app that monitors subjective data relative to training load, fatigue, stress, mood, and sleep. Adam also established a partnership with The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention to create annual athlete biomechanical & anthropometrics screenings for the youth players. The data collected from GPSports, Fit for 90, and the athlete screenings were used by the Academy staff to better understand how to monitor training load and risks for injury.

Adam developed and coached soccer training sessions for players ages 6-16 years old that improved their individual skills within the Regional Development School, Regional Training Centers, and Summer Academies. He also developed the philosophy, programming, and marketing resources for the Sports Performance Academy.

Interacted with the technical, medical, and performance staff of the professional Orlando City men’s soccer team of Major League Soccer.

Under the mentorship of Bill Hartman, PT, CSCS, interacted with the IFAST staff in the physical therapy clinic and performance training facility.

Assist Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants in exercise prescription and therapeutic modalities during patient sessions. Maintain cleanliness of all exercise equipment, modalities, and treatment areas.

Assisted the head coach in daily duties including goalkeeper training, scouting, recruiting, and team management.