Our team is ready to root for you.
When we say “your goal is our goal” - we mean it. Everyone on our team at NCCPT is on your team, too. With decades of experience guiding us, we strive to hire the best physical therapists possible. We believe that PT’s should be both highly skilled and compassionate listeners, so you can benefit from the expertise and support you need to make what matters most happen.
Together, we’ve helped thousands of patients through quality physical therapy, innovative treatment, and listening well to everyone we work with. We can work with you and we can coordinate with your existing treatment team if you have one - including doctors, coaches, and personal trainers.
When you walk through our doors or connect with us in a telehealth appointment, you’ll see exactly what we’re talking about. And we can’t wait to meet you soon!
Meet the NC Center for Physical Therapy Family
Misty Pidgeon
PT, Founder / CEO / Clinical Director
Misty founded NC Center for Physical Therapy in 2010 to create a local, independent PT clinic that prioritized patients and their goals - choosing quality of care over quantity of care. With more than 3 decades of experience as a physical therapist, Misty holds multiple PT certifications and has led the clinic to win “Top Three Best PT’s in Durham” from ThreeBest Rated several times. Prior to running her practice, Misty was a skilled PT for Duke Medical Center, Durham Regional Home Health, Treyburn Rehab, and Carolina Meadows. She holds a bachelor’s of science in Allied Health / Physical Therapy from the University of Vermont.
Misty runs NC Center for Physical Therapy in partnership with her husband, Jeff, the clinic’s COO/CFO. They share this special business, a wonderful life, and four children (who aren’t quite “kids” anymore!).
Hunter
Senior PT, DPT
Dr. Hunter earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) from East Carolina University and a BS in Kinesiology from James Madison University. Hunter has experience treating a wide variety of patients of all ages ranging from neurological to orthopedic conditions. Additionally, as a 5-year collegiate football player, Hunter has gained a passion for treating athletes. He has personal experiences of being sidelined due to injury and knows the importance of proper recovery and wellness to return to the playing field. He now enjoys working with runners, weightlifters, and athletes of all sports and ages to optimize performance and achieve an active and healthy lifestyle. His greatest joy is seeing patients achieve their goals and seeing them returning to the activities they love to do.
Hunter enjoys spending time with his wife, Kayla, and their GSP, Hazel. They enjoy being active, watching sports, and going to the beach.
Abby
DPT, Clinical Director
Dr. Abby earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. She also received a BS in biology with a minor in psychology from Walsh University. Abby has over a decade of experience working within the outpatient private practice setting and enjoys treating a wide rage of conditions including dizziness, headaches, neck pain, low back pain, and balance deficits. With a background of playing soccer throughout her college career, Abby also enjoys working with athletes of all ages.
Abby spends most of her free time with her family, but also enjoys attending concerts and going camping.
Aanand
Dr. Aanand earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) from Duke University and a BS in Kinesiology from Michigan State University. Aanand has experience treating a wide variety of orthopedic and post-operative conditions involving the should, hip, knee, and ankle. Additionally, Aanand has valuable experience treating sport-specific athletes in the scope of performance enhancement and injury prevention including contact and non-contact sports like soccer, football, tennis, and gold. He has personal experience playing competitive sports through his graduate studies and enjoys giving patients the ability to be pain free and perform at their highest level without risk of injury and promoting longevity in his patients’ health and wellness. His commitment in providing high-level care and outcomes shows through his fun and motivating approach to rehabilitation.
Aanand enjoys spending time with his partner, trying new eateries and bakeries in the Triangle, while enjoying time swimming, hiking, golfing, and playing tennis.
Jessie
Social Media Manager
Jessie is currently a student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, majoring in Exercise Science and minoring in Digital arts. She works the magic behind the camera and is the office photographer. She has been doing photography since her sophomore year of high school and is now learning more techniques about photography in college. She is Jeff and Misty’s youngest daughter and has been helping out at the office since 2010. She used to clean, check patients in, and even count reps for their exercises. Now her tasks have slightly changed, while you may sometimes see her in the gym helping the PTs over her college breaks, she works more with updating the website and managing social media. Growing up in a PT clinic she has learned a lot about physical therapy and is considering going to PT school.
In her free time outside of classes Jessie is on the club water polo team and a member of the photography club. She also loves playing board games with her new friends she has made in college.
Jeff Pidgeon
Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operations Officer
Helping lead NC Center for Physical Therapy is our CFO/COO, Jeff Pidgeon. Jeff oversees the clinic’s financial and business affairs, strategic planning, human resources, building operations, information systems and security. Having spent more than a decade working in Corporate America, he brings an insight for optimizing operations to our work – ensuring our PTs are empowered to provide the best treatment to our patients, maximizing both time and resources for them.
Jeff is also Misty’s husband of 32 years. He fondly remembers writing a letter to her back in 1991, just as she was finishing her last clinical rotation of physical therapy school in Vermont. It read, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could open our own practice one day, where you’re the PT and I was the financial guy and did the computer stuff?”
Together, they did just that on November 15, 2010. Turns out, it is great.
A bit of the letter that Jeff wrote to Misty while she was finishing her final physical therapy clinical.
The Athlete’s Advantage: Greenville, NC branch!
Jennifer “JP”
Head Athletic Trainer, ATC, LAT, MS
The Athlete’s Advantage
JP is the Head Athletic Trainer and Clinical Director for The Athlete's Advantage in Greenville, NC. She has been a Board-Certified Athletic Trainer since 2017 after graduating from UNCW in 2017 then completing her Masters at Clemson University in 2019 where she focused her thesis study on Concussions in Youth Athletes. Her passion and experience is working with dedicated recreational athletes who don’t have as easy access to sports medicine care as professional and higher level athletes do. Her domains of practice include concussion evaluation and management as well as sport injury prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, immediate care, rehabilitation and reconditioning.
In her free time, she loves to do CrossFit, hang out with her husband, their two dogs and preparing to be a first time mom!