Michael Wong

Dr. Michael Wong holds a full time appointment as an Associate Professor at Azusa Pacific University, teaching in the specialty areas of Modalities, Therapeutic Exercises, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Evidence Based Practice, Diagnostic imaging and Medical Screening. He is a residency and fellowship trained orthopaedic clinical specialist. He currently lectures for the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Orthopaedic Fellowship and Sports Rehabilitation Program and the University of Southern California (USC) Spine Fellowship.

He is the author of Pocket Orthopaedics: Evidence based survival guide and has presented nationally and internationally on various topics related to manual therapy and movement. Dr. Wong has lectured in 17 sessions for Combined Sections Meeting in the last 5 years (2015-2019) covering topics related to movement analysis, manual therapy and using technology to enhance guideline implementation and entry level education.

Dr. Wong plays an important role in international Physical Therapy education, spending 1 month per year mentoring and teaching in Beijing, China for the University of Southern California Orthopaedic Residency and Spine Fellowship.

Dr. Michael Wong graduated from the Entry-level Physical Therapy Professional Program at Loma Linda University in 2000, receiving his Masters of Physical Therapy Degree. In 2001, he received his Post-professional Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree while simultaneously completing the Kaiser Permanente Orthopedic Residency Program.

In 2003 Dr. Wong continued with his advanced training in physical therapy by successfully completing the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Fellowship Program in Manual Therapy. In 2003 he also began teaching orthopaedics at Azusa Pacific University, became a Board Certified Specialist in Orthopedic Physical Therapy and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapist. He has been a reviewer for the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy musculoskeletal imaging feature.

Along with his teaching responsibilities at the University, he is a designated Teaching and Learning Fellow and Chairs the Institutional Review Board that oversees ethical human subjects research. He was awarded Faculty of the Year in 2014 for the School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences at Azusa Pacific University.

He lectures for the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Orthopaedic Fellowship and Sports Rehabilitation Program and the University of Southern California (USC) Spine Fellowship.

Dr. Wong has presented nationally and internationally on various topics related to manual therapy and movement. He was a keynote speaker at the 2011 Ohio State Physical Therapy Association Annual Conference regarding the latest guidelines: Neck/Shoulder Disorders: Get with the Guidelines and Low Back/Hip Disorders: Get with the Guidelines.

He is currently a lead author on the Medical Screening Guidelines Task Force sponsored by the Orthopaedic and Federal sections of the American Physical Therapy Association.

Dr. Wong is the Founder and CEO of Clinical Pattern Recognition/PhysioU LLC. The leading educational technology platform in physical therapy.