Logan Merritt founded Physio+ in 2022 and treats patients at Fusion Lindale and FIT Tyler. He earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2015, became a Board Certified Neurologic Clinical Specialist in 2019, and has practiced for eleven years. The cases he most wants on his schedule are rotator cuff repairs, lumbar disc injuries, and stroke recovery, treated with manual therapy and adjustments, dry needling, and a level of patient education most people have not had from a clinician before.
Rotator cuff repairs, lumbar disc injuries, and stroke. Those are the three he named when asked what he most wants to see walk through the door, and they say a lot about the range of the practice he built.
A repaired rotator cuff is a surgical shoulder on a clock. The tendon has to be protected while it heals to bone and loaded before the shoulder stiffens and the muscle around it forgets its job, and the window between those two mistakes is narrower than most patients are told. Getting the sequence right, week by week, is the work. The shoulder pain page covers the non surgical side of the same joint.
Lumbar disc injuries are the other half of his orthopedic caseload: the herniations, bulges, and sciatica that most often arrive after a round of imaging, injections, or pain medication that did not change the outcome. His stated aim with those patients is to help them avoid exactly that list, which means testing what the back actually does under load and direction rather than treating the picture on the MRI. The back pain and sciatica page goes deeper.
Stroke is the case that separates him from most outpatient physical therapists. He is a Board Certified Neurologic Clinical Specialist, and eleven years of practice have covered everything from childhood athletic injuries to balance disorders in aging adults, with a wide range of orthopedic and neurological conditions in between. The neurologic side gets its own section below.
In his own words: listen first, then connect, then treat the whole patient. Do not chase symptoms. Find the root cause.
The order matters to him. Listening comes before the exam because the history usually contains the diagnosis, and connecting comes before treatment because a patient who does not trust the plan will not do the parts of it that happen at home. Treating the whole patient is the part that shows up in the room: a knee that hurts on stairs gets its hip and ankle tested too, and a shoulder that will not lift gets its neck and mid back looked at before anyone touches the shoulder.
Ask his patients what he is known for and three things come back. Manual physical therapy, including the adjustments, which is hands on joint and soft tissue work to restore motion where a segment has stopped moving. Dry needling, for muscle that has been guarding long enough to become its own problem. And patient education, which he treats as a clinical skill rather than a courtesy. His stated goal since the beginning has been to improve each patient's understanding of their own injury well enough that they can carry the plan without him, and to use that understanding to keep them away from pain medication, surgery, unnecessary injections, and expensive imaging when those are not the answer.
What that looks like in a visit is a lot of explaining. What is actually injured, what is not, what the pain means and does not mean, and why the exercise he just prescribed is the one that matters. The adjustments page and the dry needling page cover the two hands on tools in detail.
Stroke recovery, balance disorders, dizziness, and nerve problems. This is the work his board certification is in, and it is rare to find it in a cash pay outpatient clinic.
Neurologic rehabilitation is a different discipline from orthopedics. The tissue is not the limiting factor; the nervous system's ability to recruit, sequence, and balance is. After a stroke that means retraining walking, weight shift, and the use of an affected arm through repetition that is specific enough to drive change, and it means knowing when a patient is ready for more challenge and when they are one step from a fall. A therapist who does this work every week reads those margins differently.
The same training is why balance and vestibular patients end up on his schedule. Balance that is getting worse with age, dizziness that has been shrugged off as normal, and the fear of falling that quietly shrinks a person's world all respond to the right kind of work, and the right kind is specific. The balance and vestibular page and vestibular therapy cover what an evaluation involves.
A patient came in with hip pain after two months at a local outpatient clinic that had not made a dent in it.
Two months is long enough to conclude that the plan was aimed at the wrong thing, and that is usually what a second opinion is really for. The evaluation started over from the history, tested the hip in the positions and loads that actually provoked it, and looked past the hip at what was feeding it. By Logan's account the patient was about 80 percent better after two sessions. One patient is not a promise, and he would be the first to say so. It is an illustration of the difference between treating where it hurts and treating why it hurts.
Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 2015, an undergraduate degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, 2008 to 2012, and eleven years in practice. He founded Physio+ in 2022.
The letters after his name: PT and DPT for the doctorate and the license, Cert. DN for certified dry needling through the American Academy of Manipulative Therapy, and NCS for Board Certified Neurologic Clinical Specialist, earned in 2019 through the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. Board certification requires documented clinical hours in the specialty and a passed examination beyond the doctorate, it has to be maintained rather than earned once, and only a small minority of practicing physical therapists hold any specialty certification. Neurologic certification is rarer still outside hospital systems.
He holds Texas physical therapist license number 1264122. You can confirm it through the Texas licensure verification search. He does not hold professional association memberships, which is a fee rather than a qualification and is noted here only so the record is complete. He guest lectures for the physical therapist assistant programs at Kilgore College and Tyler Junior College.
His reason for entering the field, in his words: he wanted to be helpful during the difficult times of people's lives. Eleven years in, that is still the plainest description of the job.
He grew up in Hemphill, Texas, in Sabine County near Toledo Bend, which is about as East Texas as a hometown gets.
He and his family are part of Life Source Church, and their time off is spent outside: hiking, camping, traveling, and fishing together. The practice is his own, which is why the footer of this site carries his name. A clinician who built the place he works in tends to run it the way he would want to be treated in it.
He sees patients at both clinics: Fusion Lindale, 140 E Eagle Spirit Dr, Lindale, TX 75771, and FIT Tyler, 2259 Broussard Street, Tyler, TX 75701. Call or text 903.492.5215, email hello@physioplustx.com, or book online. New evaluations are often available the same week.
Texas direct access law lets a doctor of physical therapy evaluate and treat you without a physician referral, so you can book with him directly. The direct access guide covers the mechanics. Your first visit is one on one with Logan: an exam, a working diagnosis, a written plan, and treatment the same day.
Read the rest of the roster on the team page, or read up on what he treats most: shoulder pain, back pain and sciatica, and balance and vestibular disorders.