Core 3 Physical Therapy branches out

EAST NORRITON » As a physical therapist, Danielle Knippenberg is trained to treat an injured knee, an aching back or any part of the musculoskeletal system.

But with the high number of patients seeking her uncommon skills in pelvic care, she is able to focus on her specialty niche at Core 3 physical therapy, while her husband and co-founder of the business, Caleb Knippenberg, tends to the orthopedic aspects of physical therapy.

The couple opened the first Core 3 location in Hatfield three years ago, and, in response to a growing demand for specialized treatment in the area of pelvic health for women and men alike, expanded to a branch in the Sycamore Hill Medical Center, 325 W. Germantown Pike, East Norriton, this month.

Preceded by a string of glowing online testimonials amassed since launching the Hatfield facility, which is still going strong with Caleb Knippenberg at the helm, the privately owned outpatient clinic seemed destined for an East Norriton presence.

“The urologic and gynecologic patients had been coming to Hatfield, but it’s about half an hour an hour distance for our patients to travel, so we decided since there was space available in this building that we would expand. East Norriton has a rich medical community and we had been working with the other practices here,” explained Danielle Knippenberg, whose expertise embraces preand postpartum issues, generalized pelvic pain, sexual dysfunc-

GARY PULEO — DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA Core 3 Physical Therapy owner Danielle Knippenberg holds a model of the pelvic floor at the East Norriton facility, which opened this month at Sycamore Hill Medical Center, 325 W. Germantown Pike. With her is office manager Sara Leonard.