Shannon graduated from Indiana State University in 2021 with her Doctorate in Physical Therapy. Her first experience with rehabilitation was in PT school when she fostered a cat named Doodle who was thrown from a car. Despite suffering from a broken pelvis and nerve damage upon arrival, Shannon was able to use her physical therapy techniques she was learning in school to help restore Doodle’s function. She was inspired by this experience, and in 2022, she began courses with the Canine Rehabilitation Institute to study canine rehabilitation. In May of 2023, Shannon become a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist. She opened SSCR shortly after.

She has worked as a physical therapist in outpatient orthopedics for the last three years, and loves using the skills she has learned from the human PT world to help guide her treatments for her four-legged clients. She often finds that her experience as a human PT makes it easier to explain a dog’s conditions to their owners by relating it to conditions we often know about (such as ACL tears in humans are similar to CCL tears in dogs).

Outside of working as a human and dog PT, she enjoys running, baking, gardening, and spending time outdoors. She owns two dogs, a German Shepherd and a Lab Heeler mix, as well as two cats.