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Summit Physical Therapy

Owners: Paul and Lisa Arsenault

Lending Partner:  First Citizens Bank & Trust

Location: Black Mountain (Buncombe County)

Project: Purchase of a 866 square-foot commercial condominium

Community Impact:  Historic downtown development; environmentally “green” building

Company Mission: Work closely with patients to provide individualized programs in a comfortable, eco-friendly environment. We’re family-owned and believe in treating our patients like family. That means we approach problems in a caring way and take time to understand our patients’ concerns and explain their treatment programs. And we teach patients how to move forward so that after therapy they can get the most out of life.

 

“Thanks to Paul, I am beginning to live pain free after over 20 years,” Barbara Bridges, patient.

This fall husband-and-wife team Paul and Lisa Arsenault opened a business to help people in their community overcome spinal and other physical ailments. At Summit Physical Therapy they evaluate and treat residents in underserved Black Mountain, N.C., and surrounding areas.


The 866 square-foot condominium, located in the heart of historic downtown Black Mountain, was constructed as a “green building,” with features like solar power, energy-efficient cooling and heating systems, and more. First Citizens Bank and Self-Help partnered with the Small Business Administration to help the Arsenaults finance the facility through the SBA 504 loan program.

 “The folks we’ve been working with on the loan process have become our business’ ‘family,’” says Lisa. While it’s been a drawn-out process, with lots of hoops to jump through, we’ve learned along the way and have developed relationships with people I trust and who have a personable warmness. It’s been a really positive experience.”

Paul has more than five years of physical therapy experience and is the only American Back Pain specialist in the state. One local board-certified orthopedic surgeon states, “patients universally comment on his excellent care.”

The center provides orthopedic care with a focus on the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine. Paul provides physical therapy for a wide variety of conditions like fractures, pinched nerves, sports injuries, arthritis, and Carpal Tunnel syndrome and much more.

Lisa will help manage the business, while continuing to serve as a Nationally Board certified English as a Second Language teacher in Henderson County.

Paul is an avid outdoorsman.I In 1998, after Lisa recovered from battling cancer, he organized the first co-ed mountain bike trip on the 2500-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Trail as a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.

Paul and Lisa have plans to someday open up a satellite treatment center in Asheville.

 

For more information, visit www.summit-physical-therapy.com.