Mandy Blackmon

physical therapist

Amanda (Mandy) Blackmon received her BSEd in Exercise and Sports Science and her Masters Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Georgia in 2002. She earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Emory University in 2005. Dr. Blackmon is a board-certified specialist in orthopaedic physical therapy with 18 years of clinical experience treating patients with musculoskeletal conditions. She specializes in treating performing artists and dancers and is the head physical therapist for Atlanta Ballet. Mandy owns a private practice in Atlanta, specializing in chronic and persistent pain complaints. She is a managing and founding partner for Atlanta Dance Medicine. With three locations in the metro Atlanta area, all inside dance studios, ADM has 15 PTs and multiple student PTs treating dancers throughout the city. Dr. Blackmon is adjunct faculty in the DPT program at Mercer University in Atlanta, GA. Her current research areas of interest include hypermobility, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), trigger points and dry needling, pelvic floor dysfunction in dancers, and injury surveillance and prevention in dancers and performing artists. She speaks on these topics at local, state, national, and international meetings. Mandy is also an instructor for Myopain Seminars in the Janet Travell Dry Needling Training Program. She was certified in 2010 and has been teaching since 2013. She is involved in multiple performing arts medicine organizations, including the Performing Arts Special Interest Group for the APTA (leadership for 8 years), Dance/USA’s Task Force on Dancer Health (Executive Committee for 4 years), and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (newly-elected Board member, presenting at numerous conferences, moderating roundtables, and serving as an abstract reviewer).