Meet your khaki- free PT.
Clinical Expertise. Independent Thinking.
Laura Opstedal has spent more than two decades treating athletes, educating clinicians, building businesses, and helping move sports physical therapy forward. Her work spans complex knee rehabilitation, bone stress injuries, force plate technology, isokinetic testing, and high-performance sports medicine. Today, she brings that experience beyond the walls of a single practice through education and consulting designed to help other professionals solve harder problems.
Built From Experience.
Laura began her physical therapy career in 2001 after graduating from the University of Puget Sound in her hometown of Tacoma, Washington. Her own athletic background spans fastpitch, gymnastics, dance, and cheer, eventually leading to a career focused on understanding how athletes move, perform, recover, and return to the things they love.
After relocating to Bozeman in 2013, Laura became an influential voice in the local sports medicine community and beyond. She founded Build Physio & Performance in 2019 and Build Gym in 2024, creating environments where rehabilitation, strength, testing, and performance could work together rather than exist in separate silos.
Now based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Laura is bringing decades of experience into a new chapter focused on education, consulting, and collaboration. While her roots in Bozeman remain an important part of her story, Scottsdale offers a new home base for connecting with clinicians, high-performance teams, and sports medicine professionals locally and nationwide.
Her clinical interests include ACL rehabilitation, complex knee injuries, bone stress injuries, high-performance athletes, force plate technology, and isokinetic testing. She is also a recurrent national speaker and educator and the creator of ACL Rehab in a Weekend.
So, Why Khaki-Free?
It started as a joke about the unofficial physical therapy uniform: khakis, polo, sneakers. But the idea stuck because it represented something bigger.
The Khaki-Free PT is about questioning the cookie-cutter expectations of the profession. Laura believes physical therapists aren't simply people who “do PT” to patients. They are autonomous experts capable of thinking critically, leading teams, building businesses, educating others, and shaping the future of the profession.
No khakis required.