Dr. Felipe Picado believes in patient-centered high quality of care where the patient is given full attention through the entire treatment in combination with hands-on skilled services and functional therapeutic specific exercises. Dr. Picado has a diverse experience treating musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, and cardiopulmonary pathologies in the hospital, home health and outpatient settings ranging from high-level professional athletes to adults just wanting to improve their function. However, his specialty is in orthopedics. 

Dr. Picado attended the University of Central Florida where he received his bachelor’s degree in Sports and Exercise Science. Afterwards, he received his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Saint Augustine for Health Sciences where he graduated with honors.

Dr. Picado is one of 300 physical therapists in the U.S. to have earned a Diploma in Osteopractic. In 2023, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy (FAAOMPT), a title earned by only 2% of the physical therapy profession where he completed a comprehensive post-graduate program consisting of thousands of hours of mentorship, state-of-the-art courses and examinations on the neuromusculoskeletal system. 

After graduation, he completed another rigorous program consisting of various continued education courses on advanced knowledge of the spine and extremity where he successfully passed a series of practical , written and oral exams from the University of Saint Augustine granting him the Manual Therapy Certification (MTC). He then pursued an additional post graduate degree, this time from the American Academy of Manipulative Therapy, where Dr. Picado took various courses and passed several exams which tested his knowledge and skills in spinal thrust manipulation granting him the spinal manipulation certification (cert-SMT). 

Dr. Picado has helped teach multiple courses across the United States to physical therapists, chiropractors, and athletic trainers on dry-needling, joint manipulations, and differential diagnostic skills through the American Academy of Manipulative Therapy. 

An osteopractor is a physical therapist who has completed an evidence-based, post-graduate training program in the use of spinal and high-velocity low-amplitude thrust manipulation, dry needling, instrument-assisted manual therapies, and differential diagnostics for the management of neuromusculoskeletal conditions.
Osteopractic physical therapy is an approach to care, a sub-specialty within physical therapy, and more accurately describes the kind of physical therapy services (rather than simply “physical therapy”) offered so the public, potential patients and colleagues alike, can identify the appropriate practitioner of choice for the condition in question. When you break a bone, you look for an orthopedist, not just a general medical doctor. When your child needs medical care, you look for a pediatrician, not just a general medical doctor. Likewise, when you have neck pain, low back pain, headaches, tennis elbow, heel pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, knee osteoarthritis, plantar fasciitis, shoulder impingement, or joint pain etc., it makes sense to look for a specialist within physical therapy, that is specifically trained and has advanced post-graduate qualifications to treat neuromusculoskeletal conditions.  One of these specialties is osteopractic physical therapy.