Jerod Sharp followed the yellow brick road from Wichita, Kansas, to Advantage Rehab’s Powell office.

“My wife is from Washington, I’m from Kansas and since we got married five years ago, we had two kids, and we’re trying to plant roots somewhere,” Sharp said. “We wanted to be somewhere where we can enjoy public lands and mountains and kind of just enjoy country life a little bit.”

Sharp, who formerly did contract work, specializes in orthopedics. He brings 11 years and roughly 20 clinics worth of experience with him to Powell. 

According to Advantage Rehab’s website, Sharp specializes in spinal rehabilitation, dry needling, orthopedic rehabilitation, neurology rehabilitation and general pediatrics.

“I’ve been able to get exposed to a lot of stuff that I probably wouldn’t get just by being in one location for 10 years,” Sharp said.

The most enjoyable part of the job is being able to “get to know people and to help educate them,” Sharp said.

“A lot of times I’ll give them an analogy of comparing your body to a car,” he said. “You wouldn’t dare drive your car without changing the oil sometimes, or rotating tires. Our bodies are really no different than that. We just got to figure out what the oil change and the tire rotation on ourselves is.”

Sharp and his family have been living in Powell for two months. They hope to be able to get to know the community and be involved through a church, which Sharp says is a big part of their lives, and possibly school athletics.

“We were both college athletes,” he said. “So being able to get involved with them, teaching them to take some physical therapy and what we know in sports and just hopefully, encourage kids there.”