A & M Physical and Occupational Therapy

A&M Therapy Inc created the A&M Warhol 15 monthly award to recognize the associate who earned the most internal customer satisfaction surveys from both patients and our own A&M Jedi warriors.🥇 I’m proud to announce that Tracy garnered the most positive reviews in the month of May!
Next up is the A&M Associate of the Quarter! Who is our best A&M Jedi associate for the second quarter? Delivering value to our Space Coast community brings its own reward.

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Zenaida Ip, Kevin Wirth

Every day find joy in what you do.
Our mission at A&M Therapy is to provide a welcome atmosphere of inclusion. Hard work and passion for providing great physical therapy care is what drives us to continue serving Brevard’s Space Coast!

There are two fathers in our A&M Therapy team we celebrate today:)
Have a great Father’s Day weekend! Cheers to the good fathers out there who are in the mix:)! Thanks for all you do! Take time out to celebrate together as a team.

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Zenaida Ip

It’s Summertime!
A&M is open to serve you:)
Grateful to get patients in sooner for PT evaluations than the current week 4-6 week waiting period patients are reporting from local PT clinics.Thanks for choosing our team.

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎
Thanks for yoiur belief in what we do.
naida Ip

This is a special post to honor a person we love and respect who recently passed away.
Ode to a life well lived: Honoring Father Larry Olsewski who passed away on June 3,2024.
Rest in Peace my dear brother in Christ:
We meet people in our life journey that emit so much lightness of being and kindness that you cannot help but be drawn to them. Father Larry was one of those beacons of light.
I first met Father Larry when he came to Viera as a Holy Cross priest way back when over a decade ago. He had a genuine love for his calling, his profession of priesthood and it showed in the way he conducted his Sunday Mass services in St John the Evangelist in Viera. Back then it was a small venue and was being built to become a full Catholic Church in Viera. When we could not attend our local Divine Mercy Catholic Church in Merritt Island, we would try to find another church for Sunday Mass.
It was much later that during his retirement from St John’s that Father Larry started doing cameo appearances in my local Merritt Island Catholic Church of Divine Mercy. I did not know then that God is always watching and providing people in our path as their angels on earth.
I remember approaching him after one Sunday Mass he presided over in Divine Mercy Catholic Church and talking to him about another priest Father Mac who had passed away. Father Mac also had a genuine love for our Catholic faith and he always led his sermon with a joke and I thought that might be Holy Cross tradition. At that time I was not aware that the Holy Cross order helped build Notre Dame Du Lac in South Bend Indiana. It was much later that I would discover the connection.
Father Mac was instrumental in starting the Christ Renews His Parish retreat in Divine Mercy and his passing was a tremendous loss to our community as he had an incredible joie de vivre that I would later find out most Holy Cross priests.
It was as as result of attending Father Mac’s Christ Renews his Parish retreat in Divine Mercy way back in the early 2000's, that I developed the courage to start my small business of A&M Therapy,Inc in 2006. By the grace of God’s Angels on earth.
Father Larry was new to Divine Mercy and I felt an instant connection and he smiled to acknowledge that he knew Father Mac. He genuinely listened.
From this point forward, Father Larry would add jokes at the end of his homily and we would give each other a thumbs up acknowledging his sermon.
Every homily he gave was focused and directed to the topic of the week, what we Catholics call the readings and the gospel.
It was much later on that Father Larry’s impact was felt in our lives when my son started getting interested in choosing a college and Notre Dame du Lac became his final choice.
My wife and I didn’t know anything about Notre Dame and since we did not prepare for a college outside of Florida, I asked Father Larry what his thought was on my son's choice of schools. I prayed for a miracle as the tuition was more than my family could afford.
He immediately answered that Notre Dame is not an easy place to get into as it took only the top students in the world. We prayed about this for months and although he could not impact the decision made by the college, I was grateful for the fact he was praying for us.
Prayers and the grace of God helped my son get in. We discovered how much the Notre Dame tradition would impact our family. We talked about Notre Dame every time we saw Father Larry. He gave me a magazine to give to my son from the Mendoza college of business. I was not aware that my son was gifted enough to make the grade.
The pandemic arrived in 2020 during my son's first year in college and it changed the world.
We could not attend live Sunday mass as it was restricted to virtual masses during the beginning of the pandemic. When things normalized, and Sunday masses came back on, Father Larry was a source of inspiration to our local church as despite his advanced age, he took on more duties to perform
more Masses for our local Divine Mercy Church when it reopened. He was also there when the pain of losing the Divine Mercy school occured during the pandemic.
He also attended to my small business and we helped him recover from his neck and shoulder ailments so that he can go fishing with other retired and active Holy Cross priests. He had a passion for painting and often showed his completed paintings in social media. Father Larry was always gracious and welcoming when we approached him about any family issues.
We would talk about Notre Dame football games throughout the four years that my son attended Notre Dame. He was supportive of the local Notre Dame Club of Melbourne and its efforts to raise awareness of the works that continue to be done by the Holy Cross priests in Notre Dame.
We will miss your presence here on earth Father Larry and I raise a toast to you in heaven above.
The painting below was the last official painting that Father Larry posted on his social media site.
He loved living in Cocoa Beach. It's been an honor to have served you Father Larry and I pray you and your family know how much you have touched our family's life. Go Irish 🍀!


Thanks for being a guiding light for many in our community.

(This post is to help respect and honor the life of Father Larry.
All opinions here are the opinions of Dr Amado Mendoza,DPT alone).

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A&M believes in giving back to our community by providing summer jobs for college grad and local high school students for the past 18 years. We love to support the dreams of many future medical personnel in the doctoring field of physical therapy. A&M has helped many students who have become medical doctors, physician assistants and physical therapist assistants. Providing a positive start matters to the future generation and generosity of spirit to uplift the new generation of medical personnel is paying it forward.

Be good to yourself and celebrate your life story:)
You are the author of your own life.

It was cool to meet local artist Sara Peck who is a muralist. Hoping she can provide some summer artist color to our two PT clinics. This is one of her works at River Road Coffee. Do you support local artists?

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Fight for your rights as a licensed physical therapist in the USA.

Florida Physical Therapist Stands Up for the Profession | WebPT Last year, the Florida state legislature passed the 2012 Personal Injury Protection (PIP) Insurance reform. Click here to learn more.

Thanks Marty for choosing our local small business for your physical therapy care.

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Happy birthday Shannon! Cheers

A & M Physical and Occupational Therapy "Where movement becomes a reality"

Respect all of our military on Memorial Day weekend and every day after.
We are blessed to have the dedicated men and women who honorably served our country.
Praying for all who have lost their lives in service.

Thank you Mrs Ball for choosing to “dance” with our A&M physical therapy team:) in Merritt Island
Glad to help all patients with total knee replacements improve their overall AROM,strength and balance.
Positive outcomes matter! Spacecoast Living AM Physical Therapy

“Being recognized by my professional APTA/FPTA peers and being elected for any position is an honor. As Chair of the East Central District of FPTA since Oct.2023 my mission is to serve the membership.”
Dr Amado Mendoza,PT,DPT

Thanks Gabriel and parents for choosing our small business. Did you know we can help the pediatric population with physical therapy? Physical therapy care can help reduce torticollis and plagiocephaly if caught early on. True early intervention matters.

Join us in our suntree location for our grand opening festivities!

May you find time to enjoy humor and time to relax during this long weekend ! Happy Thanksgiving and we are grateful for you!

May we all serve each other as well as our US Veterans have served our country! God bless our Veterans!

Join us in celebrating Dr Chance’s birthday. His fave dish:) -Chipotle!


Did you know November is to remember?! We are celebrating our 18th year of serving Brevard County with trusted physical therapy care!