Kathryne Bartolo, MD - UNC Hospitals Spine Center

People are complex with thoughts, feelings, and relationships as well as physical and spiritual attributes. These facets interact with each other in positive and negative ways. I enjoy helping patients with neuromusculoskeletal (physical) problems with the tools of physical therapy -- this restoration of healthy physical movement can help a whole person's well-being.

I became a physical therapist after experiencing first hand the injuries that can occur while playing sports. Shortly after graduating college, I opened my private practice. During that time, I was the physical therapist of a first division basketball team and a provider at the international Diamond Racket tennis tournament. After moving to the United States 10 years later, I worked as the manager in an outpatient spine center, but after 2 years, I opened an outpatient clinic that specialized in orthopaedic manual therapy. The treatment approach was a combination of manual hands-on techniques, specific exercises for the targeted condition and patient education. In 2016, I teamed up with a national physical therapy company for 4 years, but in 2020, I joined UNC so I could give my patients the care they deserve.