It all started when…

Kim Fischer-Key, CMT, NCBTMB, Kim returned to the Washington DC area after spending two years in North Carolina as the Sport Massage Therapist for Appalachian State Football Team, helping them win two conference titles.

She is a three year member of the National XPE Core Sport Bodywork Team, working with multiple Division I football players to prepare them for the NFL Draft. Several of her clients were successfully signed to leading teams in the league.

As part of her current private practice, she works with several local area high school women athletes, the George Mason University Men and Women Basketball Teams, and nationally and internationally ranked triathletes.

Kim has experience working in a variety of athletic environments, from the training room, on the field, pre and post race events, or backstage.  She has established a reputation for helping all levels of athletes both prepare for the demands of their individual sport as well as find relief from pain to achieve more efficient movement.

Kim began her life of bodywork in the Bay Area after returning to the states in 2000 with several French degrees.  She obtained her Massage Therapy Certification in 2005 with a specialization in Neuromuscular Re-education and passed the National Board Certification in Massage Therapy in 2006.

 Her first move to the Washington, DC area in 2006 led her to merge her private practice into an integrative rehabilitation clinic in 2008.  There, she became the Director of Clinical Massage Therapy and created a clinically focused professional mentor program for massage therapists and taught at two area massage therapy schools.  She was also on call for performers for the Washington Ballet and the Kennedy Center. 

 Kim became certified in Clinical Bike Fit after a move to Portland, Oregon in 2013.  Using her posture knowledge with injured cyclists she started Functional Bike Fit to discern athletes’ inefficient body patterns.  Collaborating with a bike fitter and prominent racer, they use bike and body corrections to create optimal riding conditions in order to make a cyclist faster.

Seeking to expand her skills, she completed Mind Body Medicine training at Harvard, has a Postural Alignment Certification from the founders of The Center of Neurosomatic Studies, and was the first American to graduate from Connaissance et Evolution in Paris, France with a diploma in Neuro-Sensory Posture, a two year Osteopathic program studying the role of the nervous system in chronic pain.

She has a certification in Myofascial Decompression (MFD) and is currently completing a course in Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism to find better ways of working with female athletes.