Fuel Sport & Spine Team
The Fuel Team
Dr. Peter Duggan
Doctor of Chiropractic, The National College of Chiropractic in Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Duggan enjoys working with professional athletes from: MLB, NBA, NFL, NASCAR, PGA as well as, Olympic and professional runners and Ironman triathletes. He focuses on the athlete’s muscular and skeletal imbalances, correcting them to help optimize performance in competition.
Dr. Duggan uses the very latest medical advances including Active Release Techniques & Graston Techniques to get his patients back to competition quickly. Dr. Duggan is an ART instructor and helps teach doctors and therapists from around the country the latest in soft tissue therapeutics. Many athletes recognize the competitive edge they receive from treatment and elect to continue with performance care, once their injury has resolved, to help them reach their athletic goals.
Dr. Duggan has lectured extensively and made numerous TV appearances on sports and spinal injuries. He has presented at the NYU School of Medicine Comprehensive Spine Course as guest faculty. He has been appointed to the medical staff for The Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii; Medical Captain for The NYC Marathon and Manhattan Classic Gymnastic Competitions.
Dr. Eric Winiarz
Doctor of Chiropractic, New York Chiropractic College
Dr. Winiarz has extensive post graduate education and is full body certified in Active Release Technique and Graston instrument soft tissue manipulation. He acknowledges that soft tissue dysfunction plays an integral role in pain syndromes creating altered biomechanics which results in faulty movement patterns.
He is expert in functional rehabilitation and soft tissue release methods. Dr. Winiarz is TPI certified from the Titleist Performance Institute. TPI has has studied thousands of golfers ranging from the top tour players to weekend enthusiasts. The TPI analysis reveals physical limitations in a player’s body which adversely affect the golf swing and more importantly lead to injury. To achieve an efficient swing, a golfer must first be screened. This screen involved as assessment of swing mechanics and biomechanics, physical fitness and movement quality, and a client history.
Dr. Winiarz has a certificate of completion for the McGill Method, a technique by Stuart McGill. He is the world’s most prominent spinal bio mechanical researcher that combines movement efficiency with exercises to create a resilient spine. His post graduate studies in spine biomechanics employs movement techniques to help treat patients who suffer from chronic low back pain. Teaching exercises to help these patients to move with less pain and employ self-management techniques to understand their own back pain and learn how to avoid painful situations. He understands how important movement quality is and how it relates to pain syndromes.
Dr Winiarz enjoys competing in triathlon events and road running races. He treats a wide range of athletes from Ironman to weekend warriors. He understands fitness, as an enthusiast and enjoys helping other athletes obtain their specific goals so they can reach their fitness aspirations and maintain a healthy quality of life.
Dr. Melanie Rocchio
Doctor of Physical Therapy, Hunter College
Melanie earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Hunter College where she graduated summa cum laude and received her Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Geneseo. During her graduate studies, she was involved in a research project on Multiple Sclerosis that was presented at a national conference and published in a peer-reviewed journal. She has training in a variety of settings, including outpatient orthopedics, neurological rehabilitation, and acute hospital care.
Melanie’s passion for physical therapy began after experiencing an injury while playing on the women’s college soccer team. She became excited to become involved in a career that combined her love for movement and exercise with her desire to help others. Since becoming a physical therapist, Melanie has gained extensive experience in outpatient orthopedics treating patients with a wide range of sports-related injuries, neurological diagnoses, post-operative conditions, gait and balance deficits, postural dysfunction, and more recently, long COVID syndrome.
She utilizes a combination of therapeutic exercise and manual therapy techniques to optimize healing. Melanie has taken multiple manual therapy courses through the Institute of Physical Art and Maitland-Australian Physiotherapy Seminars. She incorporates a holistic approach with diagnosing and treating patients which is driven by a patient-centered philosophy.
Dr. Jasmine Bhoola
Doctor of Chiropractic, Licensed Acupuncturist
Drexel University, University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic and Acupuncture Institute
Dr. Bhoola uses each treatment as an opportunity to hone her skills as a healthcare provider and manual therapist to provide the highest quality of care. As your future doctor, she holds herself accountable for providing evidence based, patient-centered treatments by integrating manual therapy and acupuncture. Getting patients out of pain and moving with more confidence is a passion of hers throughout her career in New York City. She loves blending the worlds of western and eastern medicine to treat the patient as a whole and bridging the mind/body connection. Dr. Bhoola prides herself in addressing the injury from the root of the problem and not treating the symptoms. She utilizes a patient’s history, as well as a thorough biomechanical and soft tissue assessment to formulate an appropriate treatment plan.
Techniques Dr. Bhoola is trained in is Active Release Technique, dry needling, neurofunctional acupuncture, medical acupuncture, cupping, gua sha and Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture. She uses her blended knowledge of Eastern and Western acupuncture to provide her patients with a wide range of healing.
Dr. Bhoola enjoys weightlifting and kettlebell training, various fitness classes around the city, and walking for miles. Her multiple years of dance and gymnastics background allows her to understand sports injuries and provide her patients with motivation to return to doing the things they love the most.
Summer Reed
Summer Reed is a Romana’s Pilates Certified Instructor and co-founder of LAB Pilates. With two years of formal training and an additional five years apprenticing under New York’s master instructors, she has remained a humble student throughout her career. Summer is one of very few teachers in NYC with this incredibly thorough certification and is equipped to handle any body type and/or injury. Her sessions are results-driven and efficient, attracting CEOs, runners, golfers, new parents, and 85-year-olds who impress their doctors so much that they come, too!
From the age of 8 Summer started training rigorously in ballet and left home when she was 15 to attend a professional boarding school for dancers. She was selected to be an American Ballet Theatre National Training Scholar for 4 consecutive years, and helped found a contemporary ballet company in Pittsburgh, PA. Chronic injuries led her to Romana’s Pilates in NYC, and there she discovered hope to pursue an active lifestyle without pain. Thanks to Pilates (and amazing chiropractic care!) she now enjoys running, cycling, weight training, hiking, and the hardest workout of all — babysitting her niece and nephew! She travels internationally to guest teach and learn from world renowned instructors, and continues to master her craft by training regularly with her mentor.
