Michael J. PintoMPT

Recovery after a stroke, brain injury, or spinal cord injury is measured in hard-won victories — standing, walking, regaining independence. Mike Pinto has spent more than twenty years helping patients win them.

Mike is a physical therapist with a career built around neurological rehabilitation. Before joining Design Neuroscience Center in 2013, he spent twelve years at Jackson Memorial Hospital, treating patients across some of the most demanding settings in medicine: the medical and surgical ICUs, neurological and spinal cord rehabilitation, pediatric care at Holtz Children's Hospital, and outpatient orthopedics and trauma. That range means he has treated nearly every kind of impairment a neurological patient can face — stroke, Parkinson's disease, head and spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and more.

At DNC, Mike is also the lead therapist for clinical research. He has served as co-principal investigator on numerous clinical trials of botulinum toxin treatments for spasticity after stroke and traumatic brain injury — the same research that informs DNC's spasticity program. For patients, that means rehabilitation guided by someone who helped test the treatments now in use. He provides care in English and Spanish.