Testimonials

Dear Doctor Alison, I can't thank you enough for fixing me, all I had to do was do what you told me to do. Luckily I did, I am excellent at following instructions and now I walk without any pain. That is huge especially at 71. I was hiking 6 miles every day last week without any issue.

The plan was slow which made it attainable, you addressed my pain first, then the weight training made the biggest difference. Also I understand now that I shouldn't sit as much but I also need to train to sit if needed. I was at a Bridge Tournament last week and was sitting 6hrs a day without any pain.

I recently began working with Lexi on a confusing bunch of lower extremity issues. She loves to solve the puzzles that bodies, even older ones, can conjure up. Using a fresh new approach to PT she got me all fixed up. She has a wonderful attitude and is very sincere about helping you get yourself healed and back to functioning as fully as possible. Thank you Lexi and GSM!!!

A welcoming, amazing group of healthcare professionals!  After a poor experience with physical therapy, I chose Granite Sports Medicine on the recommendation of a friend and never looked back.  Alison helped me feel less like an older woman, giving me the tools to exercise and build strength after getting me on the road to fixing my hip issues.  Thank you!!

So thankful that our community has you all!  Welcoming staff, clean environment, flexibile, knowledgeable, effective and efficient PT's.  Alison listens and responds so well.  She is caring, considerate, experienced, and continually learning.  I am so thankful that I took the step to better myself during my pregnancy and postpartum journey with this crew.  Look forward to feeling better and staying that way!  Highly recommend this business/service.

My experience addressing a severe back pain/strain at Granite was fantastic. Darcy progressed me through: getting pain relief, then getting back to normal, then strengthening to prevent future injury. She explained the what and why all along the way, and constantly sought my input.

I really do appreciate the team over at Granite Sports Medicine. I have always felt welcomed and respected in all of my treatments and visits. I primarily work with Alison and would totally recommend. She listens to your needs, is a fun person and really cares about your progress and road to whatever goal you are trying to accomplish. They offer a lot of options as far as PT care is concerned including dry needling, cold laser, exercise, stretching, strengthening and more. My experience with Granite and Alison could not have been better once I worked through the initial difficulty of scheduling appointments (mostly due to restrictions set forth by COVID). I have seen results in every aspect of my PT treatment and am glad that I chose Granite...I believe they are one of the top providers in the area!

As an active person, I get my share of injuries. And every time, I call Granite to help me out. Such a friendly and competent staff, who have helped me out on a wide range of issues. I highly recommend them for your next physical mishap!

I am so glad that I found Granite Sports to help me through my current injury.  Darcy, Alison, and all the providers use the most update scientific data and research to create a personalized plan to recovery.  I truly feel that everyone at Granite Sports was invested in my recovery, and gave me more optimism adn hope than I would have received elsewhere.  Commuting from Bozeman is definitely worth it.  They also have really cool video technology that allows providers to analyze your movements and workout remotely.  I sent Darcy a video of myself doing an exercise at my local gym.  Using this technology, she was able to draw angles, forces and other tips directly over my video, and sent it right back to me.  Very cool!  I feel my recovery has been expedited by going to Granite Sports.

I had an excellent experience working with Alison at Granite for an acute, unexpected neck injury.  She helped me recover and then worked with me on preventative strategies, which have helped me make changes that will serve me the rest of my life.  I am an active person and I appreciated her attuning to what my daily life was like and adapting her plan accordingly.  Also, huge props on the effective dry needling; I am a big fan!

Very friendly staff that gives clear instruction and explains things in a way that I was able to understand.  The establishment is very calming and warm feeling, not clinical like what I have seen before.  They really helped me get back on my feet and back to work!

These folks are fantastic.  Alison is amazingly skilled and talented.  A lifetime of neck and shoulder pain is finally starting to ease after just a few weeks of treatment.  I'm definitely learning how years and years of taking my body for granted has caused the deep aches in those parts I most neglected and abused.  But Alison is showing me how to develop new habits and listen to my body and I no longer end every day with a headache.  I absolutely recommend Granite Sports Medicine if you are in need of physical therapy or training.  They know their stuff!

I sought treatment of a lower back issue in the fall of 2020. GSM helped me with recovery over a period of about 2.5 months. For context, I could barely get into their office on my first visit. After 7 visits, I'm essentially pain free. What I liked most about the experience was the level of knowledge GSM and Dr. Kate brought to the table. I'm a "scientific brain" and all GSM staff were able to provide detailed answers to all my questions (and repeat questions). I also appreciated that GSM's goal is to get the patient to actively think of PT, their posture, and one's entire lifestyle to ensure these issues are managed into the future. GSM's goal is to get you back to normal function...not to set you on a path of continuous doc appointments and follow ups. I would definitely recommend them to a friend.

Darcy and Allison have been great. They have listened to my concerns and have gotten to the root of my issues. Dry needling has worked wonders for me and it is they only thing that I have found that actually helps with my migraines. I would recommend Granite to anyone looking for long term solutions for their physical health and not a band aid.

I was very pleased with the progress on my ankle from start to finish. Physical therapy at Granite Sports Medicine has been a great experience and they have a full staff of pros! I was surprised by how personable their entire team is. They were flexible and worked to accommodate my schedule as best as possible. I'm happy that it feels like I have a foot again!

My experience with Alison was marvelous.   I'm a 75-year-old physician with scoliosis who had walked abnormally my whole life.  Alison made me aware of poor positioning that was adding strain to my body.  I had five or six musculoskeletal complaints that Alison showed me were all connected and easily remediable!  I came in with tightness in my hip, and now feel like a “changed man” — completely better after functional dry needling and tennis ball smashing. It is absolutely mind-boggling how much benefit I got from seeing Alison for only three or four weeks.

I moved to Livingston and moved into a three story walk up for the summer. Little did I know that my knees would start hurting an awful lot!

So I finally went into Granite Sports Medicine and worked with the staff, who were so helpful. 

After a few weeks I was walking up and down my stairs, still with a little bit of help from the railing, but my knees got a lot better. I keep working on the exercises she gave me and my knees are getting stronger all the time. I can walk my dog much farther and my knees are not hurting.

I love all the staff. Everybody is so nice and friendly and I love the building! It's cool and fun. Doesn't feel like a stale old doctor’s office.

Caron Cooper was feeling “busted up” with chronic shoulder and lower back pain and had been holding stress in her body ever since running an intense political campaign the previous year. “I was sick of feeling old and debilitated at the age of 58,” says Cooper.

She saw physical therapist Max Bartlett at Granite Sports Medicine with the goal of feeling better and self-managing her pain. He says Cooper wasn’t eager to do exercises at home so he asked if she was willing to do 10 minutes at day in order to feel better the other 23+ hours a day. “She led herself to the practical conclusion that a few minutes of home exercise was a worthwhile investment. Her willingness to exercise snowballed from that point forward as she began to improve,” Bartlett says.

Cooper’s had two months of physical therapy at Granite Sports Medicine, including dry needling, physical therapy and exercises to do at home. She also got foot orthotics to help with balance. The outcome is that her days are now primarily pain-free, she has more energy, a more positive attitude, and has met her goal of being able to do an exercise class.

“I learned that help doesn’t come from just one thing, but having the whole body treated, and how each part affects the other,” says Cooper. She also enjoys the experience of being at Granite Sports Medicine’s physical office and appreciates that they have appropriate, loose-fitting clothing for her to wear for therapy so she doesn’t have to wear a special outfit on therapy days. “It’s a huge convenience; I can just go and everything’s there,” Cooper says.

I went to GSM following shoulder surgery. After 18 years of guarding my arm, I am finally confident to move it in all directions. Now I can raise my arm straight up and most importantly, play with my boys! 

At every GSM visit, from the moment I walk in, every person I interact with is full of enthusiasm! I leave the visit knowing I had the absolute best experience I could have. The staff’s knowledge is unbelievable! 
I wish more people knew how much physical therapy can do for your physical and mental health.

They care about your injuries and think and research. They are motivated to do the right thing and have fun doing it! They are a model operation. Glad to have them around Livingston.

Kalie Talley’s daughter, Grace, has Spinal Muscle Atrophy, Type 1, a debilitating genetic neuromuscular disease. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/teamgracetalley/

Kalie says, “I had lots of back pain; mostly upper back between shoulder blades, middle back and occasional pain with my sciatic nerve. For years I went to a chiropractic as often as every 2 weeks to get relief from the pain but I wasn’t able to afford it anymore. A friend recommend I try dry needling. Needles are definitely not my favorite thing but I was desperate for relief so tried it. After a couple of sessions I was able to go more than a month without any type of maintenance. I went in about every month and a half for a combo treatment of ultrasound and tens unit, and was able to go 3 months between dry needling sessions.

It has helped me in day to day activities like cleaning and taking care of my daughter with no pain or aches. And I’ve been able to tolerate our long car rides to Denver for my daughter’s treatments so much better. It was getting difficult before to take of Grace and pick her up without pain and being conscious of what my limitations were. Now I can just go about my life and do the things I need to do without being in pain or aching at night after the day is over. And I sleep loads better too.

Darcy helped me through my knee replacement therapy in a compassionate, but determined and encouraging manner. She was great in educating me in many ways: what exercises to do, why those exercises were the best for me, and how to properly do the exercises.

She did many different types of therapy including hands on, ultra sound and most recently dry needling. All of these techniques helped me make a great recovery from my knee replacement surgery. My thanks to GSM for making a challenging knee replacement rehab into a great lasting relationship.

I suffered greatly from Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS) for nearly a decade before desperately agreeing to surgery which was advertised as a cure for my pain. WRONG! My pain worsened significantly post unsuccessful surgery by my urologist. 

Longing for a solution to get out of pain and stay out of pain, I learned about physical therapy as a potential solution to CPPS. Enter Granite Sports Medicine and Alison. 

I found Alison to be incredibly knowledgeable, passionate about her vocation, and always most excellent in her approach. But most importantly, Alison acted like she cared, day after day after day after day. I now have hope for better days ahead.

And then a light bulb turned on. Hey grasshopper, maybe you should have tried CPPS physical therapy BEFORE surgery.

This place has done more for my back than any drug could.

Alison is a gift to Livingston. Thank you for bringing her on board. The combo of her knowledge of the body, her manual work and needling (and nudging) makes me think that a full recovery is possible.

I had major surgery on my right shoulder and went to Darcy Cook at GSM for my therapy. Her knowledge of anatomy and how to strengthen each muscle group with the proper physical therapy exercise is amazing.

What I really appreciate about Darcy is she listens to what I am saying if I have a particular problem area I am dealing with and then she addresses it. I had one area in my shoulder that cause me some discomfort when I raised my arm overhead so Darcy dry needled that area and after just two sessions the problem was solved.

I am now back at work full time. I am able to do everything I was doing before my surgery like carpentry, snowmobiling, and cutting and chopping firewood. If you have to do physical therapy then Granite Sports Medicine is the place to do it.

We have been coming to GSM since the beginning. Darcy and her team have always been friendly, professional, and kept our family pain-free and mobile! You are awesome!

I have had a number of sports injuries over the years including a torn Achilles tendon. I always come back to Granite for injuries when I can, as they are friendly, timely and operate in a professional environment.

We owe so much of our ability to live and love life again to the fantastic GSM staff... Darcy and all of the front office staff! We are able to do simple things such as throw the ball or frisbee for the dogs (shoulder repairs), walk up to the trampoline and swing set with our grandkids (knee repairs), get into a saddle and ride with more strength and less pain, or to hike up to the end of our property to pick wild berries or even just look at the beautiful wildflowers and moss rocks we've been blessed with! Everyone at GSM makes us feel welcome and important. THANK YOU, and CONGRATULATIONS on bringing a fabulous service to Livingston!

Every time I have come in the staff has been kind and pleasant. Alison is always open and willing to look at what we were doing and how we could improve.

The staff is warm and approachable. Your needles are the best!

I think it is great that each employee greets each patient with their name and a smile. It makes your visit start off with a big positive feeling.  

I owe GSM a great deal for helping me restore my body and health to normal function, and for continuing to help me as I need tune-ups.

I can now ski, work, and do all the outdoor activities that I have always enjoyed, just like I did prior to injury. I would recommend them for anybody young or old regardless of injury.

The front office staff is always welcoming, fun and positive. They are great with patients, explaining costs and billing for insurance thoroughly, and juggling appointments around work schedules.  

My thanks to GSM for making a challenging knee replacement rehab into a great lasting relationship.

Darcy is so determined, not easily discouraged, and she never gives up; even with my old chronic injuries! My many years of hairdressing with poor posture and body mechanics – misuse and overuse wear and tear - led to chronic pain and limited motion.

With Darcy’s specialized individual treatment, and personal and caring help, I have better range of motion and less pain. Thanks for all you do!

Darcy has been an amazing therapist, the best I have had; she's a godsend! For more than 10 years I fought chronic pain.  I was suffering from back pain, right knee pain; numbness in my thigh and just plain couldn’t sleep more than an hour or two. After she evaluated me, Darcy told me I was not walking correctly, she identified which muscles were not being used, developed exercises to get those muscles firing and we were making progress.

Then she became certified in Dry Needling which has sped up my therapy and the pain is almost nonexistent. I wish I could have her dry needle my whole body!! Darcy’s ability, positive attitude and her love of helping people makes GSM the ideal place for an upbeat, fun recovery.

Darcy loves life, loves her patients, and she loves a challenge. What a perfect combination!

I’ve been going to see Darcy for a number of years. Darcy pushes me to realize my body’s abilities and to understand what I should and shouldn’t do to recover and maintain my normal activities. Darcy goes into detail to show you what and where the problem is.  Being trained and adept at using dry needling therapy has added to her skills. For my nerve pain originating in my lower back, it’s made a big difference. It’s working.

I was experiencing a problem with my right knee and after an MRI I was diagnosed with a small tear in my meniscus along with some arthritis. The last thing I wanted to do was have surgery. I called and talked to Megan at GSM and she got me in quickly to talk with Darcy about my symptoms.

Darcy recommended dry needling of the trigger points in my thigh. I was desperate for some kind of relief so I told her to go ahead. Darcy explained and talked to me through the process which was very helpful. I won’t lie, it was uncomfortable for a few seconds, but the results are so amazing! After just one treatment the burning was almost gone and after the third needling treatment it is totally gone. It feels so good to live without that burning pain. I would recommend dry needling to anyone experiencing any kind of muscle pain. Thank you so much.

Miracle workers! Awesome therapists and fantastic staff.

In 1997, surgery was performed on all 10 of my toes to correct bunions and hammertoes and I was fitted for orthotics. After continuing to tolerate pain and discomfort in my feet and winning an “ugly foot” contest, it was time to take action. An appointment was scheduled at GSM.

I learned that the orthotics I had were not correcting my foot issues!! I was given different orthotics and exercises to help strengthen my toes. Thanks for your expertise and helping me know what shoes to wear, for answering all my questions, and for assistance in making my toes go in the right direction. 

Darcy’s knowledge of the body is amazing. She utilizes a variety of treatment modalities to best meet one’s changing needs during the healing process. Darcy’s best asset is her ability to be cheerleader for any progress made. Her enthusiasm for her client’s improvement is contagious, regardless how one truly feels. She makes you want to help yourself more.

The office atmosphere is one of friendliness, encouragement, and efficiency.  We highly recommend Granite Sports Medicine for physical therapy needs.

You don’t have to drag your feet to show up for physical therapy at this place. Entering Granite Sports Medicine is a happy experience! There is an infectious enthusiasm that helps patients want to get better. Darcy goes out of her way to really show you what’s going on with your body, and seems to genuinely enjoy sharing as much knowledge as possible with her patients. She’s the best.

While recovering from a surgery that involved multiple procedures on one knee, I had lots of questions of which Darcy Cook was always able to answer. Within the first visit, it became apparent that she is passionate about physical therapy. She strives for the best outcomes possible.

It is evident she stays informed with the latest in physical therapy news and advances in technology regarding the profession. Darcy is organized and thoughtful about her individualized treatment protocols.

Thanks to her and to the staff at Granite Sports Medicine, I left each visit feeling positive about my recovery. We are lucky to be able to receive such care in the state of Montana.

I suffered a severe fall while skiing, which fractured my neck badly and tore my left ACL.

Darcy put her full attention and training to work with my injuries before and after surgery, and over the next 8 months helped me overcome partial paralysis in my left arm, rehabilitated my neck and knee injuries, and regained the strength, muscle tone and fitness that I had prior to my accident. 

She gave me exercises and therapies to use at home and at the gym, and answered my questions any time I needed help.While physical therapy is not a fun process to go through, Darcy and her staff made it as enjoyable as possible, and were very accommodating to my schedule and needs. We always managed to laugh at the pain somehow!