Greer, SC · The staff
Four doctors, one hiring standard.
Every doctor on this staff is a Doctor of Physical Therapy. Every visit is one-on-one with them, start to finish, no rotating cast of aides. Meet the person running your schedule too.
The standard we hire to.
We don’t hire for volume. Every doctor on this staff came in already licensed as a Doctor of Physical Therapy, but the license is the entry fee, not the interview. We watch each candidate run an actual evaluation before an offer goes out: can they explain, in plain language, what’s actually wrong and why, to someone who has never heard the word “biomechanics” in their life. If they can’t do that across the table from us, they can’t do it for a patient at 8am on a Tuesday, and the offer doesn’t go out.
Specialty matters here for the same reason. Match the wrong specialty to the wrong problem and treatment tends to look generic: a shoulder protocol handed to a knee, general strengthening handed to a joint that actually needed to move first, before it needed to get strong. That’s why your evaluation, not the front desk or the calendar, decides which doctor treats you.
The team holding the plan.
Dr. Scott Kaylor
Sports Medicine · Founder · PT, DPT, SCS
Dr. Kaylor founded Zone on a simple complaint: the model most patients already know doesn’t leave room for the questions that actually change a plan. His own path ran through an APTA sports residency and an upper-extremity fellowship, sideline work for the University of West Georgia and Central High School, and a stint with the Kansas City Royals’ sports medicine staff before he started practicing in Greer in 2019. He carries Postural Restoration Institute training, trigger point dry needling, IASTM, and SFMA movement screening into evaluations, and he still competes in triathlon and adventure racing himself, so “get back to your sport” isn’t an abstraction to him.
Dr. Christina Schultz
Orthopedic & Running Rehab · PT, DPT
Dr. Schultz is the doctor most patients end up seeing first, and usually the one they ask for by name after. A former collegiate cross-country and track athlete and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, she treats running injuries the way a coach would: gait, cadence, and training load examined together instead of just the joint that’s loud. Patients chasing a marathon time or just their next pain-free mile tend to end up on her schedule, and her plans usually come with homework, video review of their own movement, and specific numbers to hit before moving on.
Dr. Mathew Clark
Baseball & Throwing Athletes · PT, DPT
Dr. Clark treats throwing athletes from the other side of the injury. A four-year pitcher at Clemson, he underwent his own Tommy John reconstruction before his freshman season, which means he knows exactly what a return-to-throw progression should feel like, not just what a textbook says it should look like. His evaluations run heavier on measurement than most patients expect: strength ratios, throwing mechanics, and the specific standard an arm has to clear before it’s cleared, not a date circled on a calendar.
What they have in common.
If you read staff bios before booking anywhere, that’s not fussiness. That’s good judgment. Hands-on care means an actual person’s hands, and knowing whose they are before you show up is a reasonable thing to want, and exactly why this page exists.
Past their specialties, the three of them run the same way. Every evaluation starts cause-first, not symptom-first. Every plan moves through the same four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, Prevent, whichever doctor is holding it. Every visit is hands-on and one-on-one, the whole hour, no handoff to somebody else partway through. And every one of them will tell you, out loud, at the evaluation, roughly how many visits this should take and what “finished” is going to look like.
Pick a doctor. Or let the evaluation pick for you.
Put it in writing.
Five short questions. A real person calls you back, usually within two business hours, with times that fit your week.
The people who end up filling this out are rarely in the worst pain of their life. They’re just done working around it, done picking the errand that doesn’t require the stairs. If that’s the stage you’re at, this is the part where you stop researching and start.
Consider it filed.
A real person will call you back, usually within two business hours, with appointment times that fit your week. Keep your phone nearby.
Can’t wait? Call (864) 263-7390 ⟶Easy to find. Easy to park.
In the neighborhood, with parking by the door. Come see the place before you commit, if you like.
The clinic · Zone Physical Therapy
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