About
Amber Bell DScPT, OCS, COMT, SMT, FAAOMT
Amber Bell graduated from Andrews University with an MSPT degree in 2002 and with a DScPT degree in 2007. She became a Certified Manual Therapist (CMPT) in 2005 and a Certified Orthopedic Manipulative Therapist (COMT) in 2007 (also no knows as SMT). Amber received her Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS) certification through the APTA in 2008 and finished an orthopedic fellowship with NAIOMT in 2008. She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy in 2009. Amber has lab assisted at all levels of the NAIOMT core curriculum with Valerie Coolman, Terry Pratt, and Erl Pettman. She has worked in sports medicine, manual outpatient, and home-health care settings.
In 2020 Amber became a founding organizer of the Aspire OMT Institute. She serves on the Advisory Board, as Director of Mentorship, as a Faculty Instructor, as a COMT/SMT Examiner, and a Clinical Fellowship Instructor. She currently does limited part-time private evaluations/treatments, and participates in COMT and SMT Aspire OMT online study groups at the request of students. She also continues to lab assist with Aspire's Senior Instructor and Examiner Erl Pettman.
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Amber loves to teach in several areas including horseback riding lessons, fitness classes, coordinating Financial Peace University classes, and teaching for Aspire OMT. Amber enjoyed playing sports and intramurals from elementary school up through college, and loves working with athletes as well as other manual therapy clients. She enjoys sharing health with her community and owned and instructed a year round outdoor beach boot camp for 5 years. Along with exercise instruction, she also taught health principles and gave menu/meal plans. Amber also participated in local community employee health fairs.
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Amber currently lives in Maine with her husband and two children. They enjoy lots of outdoor activities including horse-backing riding, boating/kayaking, and skiing, as well as time with extended family, friends, and church groups. She especially enjoyed homeschooling her children.
Apex Wellness 2020 strives to provide quality hands on manual physical therapy and education. We also provide Telehealth Consultation when face to face interaction is not possible. We understand that the body is not just a group of individual parts, but a fully functioning unit with regional interdependence, where all the parts communicate with and affect each other. We feel strongly that it is important to not only address the current symptoms, but to find the cause of the dysfunction. We aim to treat the whole system, not just the member who is currently in pain or dysfunction.
Apex Wellness 2020 also offers mentoring services and technique practice sessions both in person and through online vehicles to therapists who are pursuing a fellowship in orthopedic manual therapy. We are a clinical fellowship instructor(CFI) trained in the NAIOMT (Now Aspire OMT) fellowship program.
We are also growing a wellness center that provides eduction on the lifestyle choices that facilitate full body wellness. This center includes plant based menus and cooking ideas, education on healthy sleeping practices, encourages a weakly day of rest from the cares and concerns of this world to focus on spiritual growth, focuses on cultivating a health activity level to support mind and body, encourages adequate hydration, promote appropriate exposure to sunshine, teaches abstinence from unhealthy practices and encourages moderation of positive behaviors, and emphasizes the importance of exposure to fresh air and well ventilated indoor spaces. This is a privately owned cash based company that is dedicated to excellence in customer service and care. Payment is due at the time of service. We look forward to working with you.