Category: Performance News

LOOKBOOK: Health Club Opening Celebration

September 25, 2024

The Performance Optimal Health team celebrated their grand opening of the latest location, a boutique health & fitness club, located at 508 Westport Avenue in Norwalk. Todd Wilkowski, Founder/CEO, gathered with the Performance team and was joined by various city and town officials, celebrating this new business concept. The mayor of Norwalk, Harry Rilling, First Selectwoman of Westport, Jennifer Tooker, Shannon O'Toole, President of the Norwalk Chamber, Kevin Wing, Director of Membership, and Matthew Mandell, Executive Director of the Westport Chamber of Commerce, cut the ribbon and engaged with attendees of the evening.

It was exciting to see so many familiar faces and meet new ones as the team unveiled this cutting-edge approach to health and wellness. “Our vision was to create a space where clients can focus on their health and well-being in a supportive, expert-driven environment,” said Wilkowski. “We are thrilled to introduce this unique concept, and we invite the community to stop by and experience a health club designed to help you reach your full potential.”

Performance Optimal Health Earns 2024 Great Place To Work Certification™

August 8, 2024 | Great Place To Work

Performance Optimal Health is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place To Work® for the first time! The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Performance. This year, 81% of employees said it’s a great place To Work – 24 points higher than the average U.S. company.

Great Place To Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.

"Great Place To Work Certification is a highly coveted achievement that requires consistent and intentional dedication to the overall employee experience," says Sarah Lewis-Kulin, the Vice President of Global Recognition at Great Place To Work. She emphasizes that Certification is the sole official recognition earned by the real-time feedback of employees regarding their company culture. “By successfully earning this recognition, it is evident that Performance stands out as one of the top companies to work for, providing a great workplace environment for its employees."

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Norwalk physical therapy and personal training office "puts health into health club"

Aug 6, 2024 | The Hour

Expanding on its physical therapy and sports medicine model, the new Performance Optimal Health location provides a gym, personal training, nutrition information and recovery care to its members.

“We call it putting the health back in the health club,” founder, CEO and physical therapist Todd Wilkowski said. “Typical health clubs make people think, ‘Oh, I’m just going to go to the gym and I’m going to have a steam room and lockers.’ We have all that here.”

Norwalk’s location also offers workout classes, including Pilates, barre, spin, rowing and meditation in its studios. In the back of the facility, there is a golf simulator as well.

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Serendipity Magazine's Medical Leader: Danielle Pasquale

Redefining healthcare

Fall/Winter 2023 | Serendipity Magazine

Physical Therapist Danielle Pasquale PT, DPT was honored as a medical leader by Serendipity Magazine for her outstanding work creating a bridge between the highest clinical standards and exceptional levels of care. Check out her feature below.

Danielle Pasquale

Danielle Pasquale, PT, DPT, is a physical therapist certified in dry needling, women's pelvic health, and pre/post-natal fitness. She has always had a passion for helping people, and decided to funnel that drive into physical therapy and teaching others how to live their healthiest life.

Meet Danielle

HEALTHY LIVING: Deeper dive on direct access to physical therapy

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — This morning, Todd Wilkowski, with Performance Optimal Health, joined us on More in the Morning, getting us more on how you can seek physical therapy without a doctor’s referral.

Direct access allows a patient to receive evaluations and treatments from a physical therapist without having to obtain a referral from a physician. It’s often challenging to set up an appointment with a physician in the same week, let alone on the same day.

By connecting with a physical therapist first, consumers can start getting care and treatment right away while waiting for their appointment with the physician.

Direct access helps ease stress by giving the patient more control over their healthcare needs, yielding faster recovery time and results. Direct access legislation may vary from state to state.

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Performance Optimal Health opens second Naples location

Mar 3, 2023 | Gulfshore Business Magazine

After expanding from Connecticut and New York to North Naples less than six months ago, Performance Optimal Health announced the opening of its second Southwest Florida location. Performance Optimal Health at Athletic Republic, 6425 Naples Blvd., opened earlier this month, offering physical therapy, recovery and wellness services. Based on comprehensive research and the latest technology, Performance clinicians use a team approach that incorporates overall wellness into every aspect of a client’s treatment journey to achieve their goals through coordinated and highly personalized health strategies focused on four pillars of exercise, recovery, nutrition and stress management. Hours of operation are 3 to 8 p.m. by appointment Monday through Thursday.

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New physical therapy concept Performance Optimal Health opens in North Naples

Sep 12, 2022 | Gulfshore Business Magazine

Todd Wilkowski decided to take his professional life and his favorite vacation destination and merge the two of them.

Performance Optimal Health, founded nearly 20 years ago by Wilkowski in Manhattan, New York, has grown to six locations, with the others clustered in Connecticut. Now, he has a seventh location at 2260 Logan Blvd. N., Ste. 202 in North Naples. It’s at the Logan Landing shopping center, next door to First Watch.

The 1,500-square-foot facility opened with a soft launch Tuesday and will celebrate its grand opening Oct. 13.

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Introducing the Optimal Health Assessment

What once was a burgeoning physical therapy practice is now an innovative health care company with a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. We expanded our mission from the original focus on recovery to one of finding balance in all pillars of one’s health: stress, exercise, recovery and nutrition.

Apr 27, 2022 | Todd Wilkowski

The world has changed a lot in the past two decades, and we at Performance Optimal Health are determined to stay ahead of that change. Our forward-thinking approach is evident in our name, methods, and the services that we provide, and it is only natural that we continue staying ahead of the curve, providing our clients with the care they didn’t even realize was a possibility.

As such, I am pleased to announce that Performance now offers an Optimal Health Assessment, a true evaluation of your health, habits and goals through the lens of the four pillars of optimal health: exercise, recovery, nutrition, and stress management.

A highly credentialed member of our team will take account of your health history, review appropriate health metrics and diagnostic tests, discuss your goals and set forth a personalized strategy to help you achieve them. Whether you want to improve your fitness, optimize sports performance, recover from an injury or increase longevity, this assessment will ensure that all your bases are covered, and all your needs met.

The assessment will cover your quality of movement, sleep, nutritional intake, and stress levels, among other things. We will then devise a program through a coordinated delivery of a combination of the four pillars, tailored to meet your goals.

We will also work with the team you currently have — or build one around you. We have close relationships with physicians, coaches, yoga instructors and more, and plenty of experience working in tandem. But through the years, we have also assembled our own team of experts — physical therapists, personal trainers, Pilates instructors, nutritionists, mental performance consultants, massage therapists, recovery specialists and more — to help you on your journey to optimal health.

Whether you already work with us or have never stepped foot in our doors, the Optimal Health Assessment is the perfect way to determine your goals and set yourself up for success with a team around you to keep you accountable.

To schedule your assessment, call us at 203-557-4000 today.

Chief Executive Officer
Performance Optimal Health