Kari Marie Lindegren

Kari Lindegren, PT, DPT is a physical therapist in Bend, OR. She is an associate faculty member at Oregon State University-Cascades and owns her own physical therapy practice, providing pediatric orthopedic, sports, and pelvic floor physical therapy. She graduated from Emory University with her DPT and then completed her orthopedic physical therapy residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is a Board certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS) and is the practice chair of the Youth Athlete Special Interest Group within the APTA American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy (AASPT). Her research interests include pelvic floor dysfunction and return to sport. Her clinical interests include returning youth athletes safely back to sport, pelvic floor rehabilitation, dance medicine, and swimming rehabilitation. She has presented both locally and nationally on topics pertaining to the youth athlete and pelvic fl