About
Healer, Teacher and Diagnostic Detective.
I determine the root cause of a problem, figure out the remedy, then apply it.
In short, I figure out the “why behind the what” for individuals, practitioners, and organizations so that they can fix their issues in the fastest amount of time.
- Struggling with pain,
- Want to grow your health practice, or
- Need help with keeping your team performing and their best,
Bio
Deborah L Walker Goetz, BS, MS., Ed. PT an expert in Natural Foot and Ankle Treatment and specialist in forefoot correction. With over 35 years in health care, her education includes 2 Bachelors of Science degrees and a Master’s in Education. She has completed advanced certifications in Functional Manual Therapy, Health Coaching, and Energetic Medicine. For the last 15 years she has shared her knowledge and wisdom teaching and developing courses.
A teacher at heart DL creates course work internationally for Physical Therapists (physios), Podiatrists, Pedorthists, Athletic and Personal Trainers as well as the public using myofascial and musculoskeletal; release, realignment, re-stabilizing and reinforcement techniques (The Walker Method™) for treating diagnoses and dysfunctions ranging from bunions to balancing chakras.
She has taught and collaborated with professionals who have successfully used this method with professional sports organization including the WTA, The Tampa Bay Rays, The Washington Generals, and the PGA. She has trained Olympic athletes at the US Olympic Training Center in Marquette, Michigan, as well as performing artists and celebrities.
Her passion is determining the root causes of a problem (diagnostic detecting), creating comprehensive solutions, and coaching individuals, through a process to undo symptomatology and optimize function in the fastest way possible.
Using powerful diagnostic, and treatment techniques; Diagnostic Motion Evaluation™ and The Walker Method™ respectfully, her strategy focuses on root cause/s correction rather than symptom management. Currently she keeps busy learning and developing new healing strategies, honing her clinical skills, teaching, coaching, consulting, and creating courses with the intention of helping the people of the world heal from sole to soul.
- Downstate Medical Center: Bachelor of Science: Physical Therapy
- Queens College: Master’s of Science: Exercise Science
- Ithaca College: Bachelor of Science: Fitness/Cardiac Rehab.
- Institute of Physical Art: Certified Functional Manual Therapist
- Amer. Academy of Ortho. Manual Therapists: Fellow in Training
- The Health Network: Health Coach
- Signature Allied Strategies: Course Creator and Instructor
- The Institute of Physical Art: Lab Assistant
- Summit Professional Education: Course Creator and Instructor
- Thrive Physical Therapy: Physical Therapist Consultant
- Sarasota Chiropractic and Physical Therapy: Physical Therapist Consultant
- Fun Fitness Physical Therapy: President and Principle Physical Therapist
- US Olympic Committee: Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Sports Training Institute: Personal Trainer
- National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Care: PTSt.
- Saint Francis Hospital: Exercise Physiologist
- Assessment and Treatment for Balance Enhancement and Fall Prevention
- Assessment and Treatment of Walking
- Assessment and Treatment of the Pelvis, Coccyx and Pelvic Floor
- Assessment and Treatment of the Foot and Ankle
- The Bunion Solution
- The Toe Walking Solution
- The Tailor’s Bunion Solution
- The Heel Pain Solution
- The Hammer Toe Solution
- Downstate Medical Center: Bachelor of Science: Physical Therapy
- Queens College: Master’s of Science: Exercise Science
- Ithaca College: Bachelor of Science: Fitness/Cardiac Rehab.
- Institute of Physical Art: Certified Functional Manual Therapist
- Amer. Academy of Ortho. Manual Therapists: Fellow in Training
- The Health Network: Health Coach
- Signature Allied Strategies: Course Creator and Instructor
- The Institute of Physical Art: Lab Assistant
- Summit Professional Education: Course Creator and Instructor
- Thrive Physical Therapy: Physical Therapist Consultant
- Sarasota Chiropractic and Physical Therapy: Physical Therapist Consultant
- Fun Fitness Physical Therapy: President and Principle Physical Therapist
- US Olympic Committee: Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Sports Training Institute: Personal Trainer
- National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Care: PTSt.
- Saint Francis Hospital: Exercise Physiologist
- Assessment and Treatment for Balance Enhancement and Fall Prevention
- Assessment and Treatment of Walking
- Assessment and Treatment of the Pelvis, Coccyx and Pelvic Floor
- Assessment and Treatment of the Foot and Ankle
- The Bunion Solution
- The Toe Walking Solution
- The Tailor’s Bunion Solution
- The Heel Pain Solution
- The Hammer Toe Solution
My Story
I learned the power of complementary medicine at the age of 14 through my own healing journey and have been open to and studied
complimentary modalities since that time.
In 1987, I began my formal education and earned 3 college degrees, and several post-professional certifications all in healthcare.
When I choose to study Exercise Science, Cardiac Rehab and Physical Therapy in college, my education taught me to be myopic and disconnected. I was taught to treat body parts and symptoms rather than addressing the root cause of a problem or integrating bodily struggles with psychology and energy factors.
Because of my experience as a 14 year old, who overcame a severe and embarrassing problem holistically, I knew that their was more to healing than what I was taught.
So, I became a Certified Functional Manual Therapist with the Institute of Physical Art and began teaching in 2008 while completing
advanced trainings in health coaching and energetic medicine in 2015 and 2022 respectfully.
As a result, I now include mindset and energy coaching, with my traditional physical therapy techniques as a Functional Corrective Therapist and teach my healing method to professionals and the public.
Since incorporating this holistic approach, I have a perfect success rate.
My 1 -1 clients report on average a 60-80% improvement in just 1 session.
And clinically, diagnoses that used to take 12-24 sessions to resolve, now take half the time.
When people are not healing or unable to get the their next level, then it is likely that either the root cause has not been identified or they are not being treated from a comprehensive approach.
They then become part of a medical merry-go-round which sadly results in more problems.
I have witnessed this far too many times in my career with patients being misdiagnosed or suffering serious consequences of medical errors.
I was 1 of them.
For many of these people the result was death, some fast like my patient who was given 1,000 times the dose of radiation for a cancer treatment.
And others slow, like my grandfather who was misdiagnosed with dementia when he had a very curable diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.
For me, my surgeon missed a infection after a routine dental implant and dismissed me with a diagnosis of allergies.
After losing a month of my life, I helped him get the diagnosis right because of what I know and who I know.
Most people don’t have the knowledge or the help that I did.
When you are experiencing pain and limitation in your life, and things aren’t getting better, it is like an idiot light illuminating in your car, telling you that you are doing “something” wrong.
But it is not telling you what that “something” is.
And many people ignore the warning and follow ineffective advice.
That is where I come in.
I am like that diagnostic computer at the car shop.
I help to determine the root cause of problem from a holistic perspective using a combination of education, experience and intuition.
Then I share all the possible ways that I know to overcome it in safe, comprehensive way without potential disability side effects or death.
Because you have to reveal it to heal it and the more options that you have, the greater your odds of recovery, performance enhancement, and resilience.