BRUCE WIHONGI, PT
Bruce is the owner and founder of Kiwi PT. He is also the clinic director and treats patients regularly within the clinic. See “The Owner” tab for his full story and PT experience.
REGINA OLARI, PT
Regina has worked as a Physical Therapist at Kiwi PT since October 2017. Her career started after graduating from the prestigious University of Stellenbosch in South Africa in 1983, with a BCS degree in Physiotherapy. After backpacking through Europe for 3 months, she returned to her home land, Namibia (formerly known as South West Africa). Here she worked for a year in a hospital setting.
Always looking for challenges and learning opportunities, she then accepted a position in an Outpatient Orthopedic rehab clinic in Port Elizabeth. In the three years that she spent, she was involved in the sport clinic of the University of Port Elizabeth, and volunteered for many extreme sport competitions. Slowing down a little, she then accepted a teaching position at the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein. There she was teaching PT students and in her free time she was the PT for the Eastern Free State Cricket team for 3 seasons.
Regina moved to the USA in September 1991, and started working for a small outpatient clinic in Milford where she worked for 5 years. She loved the community and the church she went to. She met her husband, John Olari, at a bible study and got married in 1993, and they had 3 children, Luke, Katja, and Benjamin. At that time, she became a stay-at-home mom, and then homeschooled their kids. In January, 2023 she became Oma to her first grandchild.
Regina enjoys scrapbooking, knitting and is always in the middle of some new DIY project. She loves gardening and traveling. She has 23 states, and MANY national parks left on her bucket list.
Regina is passionate about the well-being of her patients. She enjoys treating her patients, but also includes educating them in being good stewards of their own health. It is important to her that her patients understand their conditions, and limitations, and then assists them in finding a new normal, and encourages them to embrace their own wellness plan.
s South West Africa. The second of four daughters born to German parents, Regina graduated from the prestigious Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 1983, with a BSc degree in Physiotherapy.
After backpacking for three months through Europe, she returned to Namibia where she worked for a year in a hospital setting. She then moved to South Africa where she worked in Outpatient PT before spending three years teaching PT students at the University of the Orange Free State.
Regina moved to the USA in 1991 and started working in an Outpatient PT clinic in Milford, Michigan in September of that year. For five years, she worked in Outpatient and Inpatient settings for a contract company.
Regina married John Olari in 1993, with whom she has three children, Luke, Katja, and Benjamin. She became a stay at home mom and then homeschooled all three children.
Over the last seventeen years, Regina has worked part time as a PT, first at Excel Rehabilitation in Milford, then at ATI in Milford.
We are very happy to have someone as experienced and capable as Regina on our team.
MICHAEL ROBERTS, PT, DPT
Michael has worked as a Physical Therapist since 2013. He attended Michigan State University for his undergraduate education, where he received a Bachelors of Science degree in Kinesiology with a specialization in Health Promotion. Following graduation, Michael moved to Pittsburgh, where he completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy at Chatham University. Michael has experience in multiple clinical settings, including outpatient orthopedics, skilled nursing facilities, neurology, and pediatrics.
Upon completing Physical Therapy school, Michael moved back to Michigan to follow his love for orthopedic therapy.
Michael married Erika Roberts in 2018. They welcomed their son, Owen, in 2020 and their second son, Mack, in 2021. They moved to Highland shortly after. Michael is an avid outdoor enthusiast who enjoys hiking, fishing, kayaking, mountain biking, and classic cars.
Over his 10 years of patient care, he has taken several continuing education courses, as well as muscle energy technique courses focused on low back, hip, and neck pain. He is certified in Hawk Tools Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization. Michael has also trained in vestibular therapy, with focus on BPPV (Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo).
MARY HURST, PTA
Mary attended Oakland University and received a Bachelor’s degree in Wellness, Health Promotion, and Injury Prevention in 2013. She began working as a Rehab Tech while completing her Bachelor’s degree and became interested in Physical Therapy. She graduated from the Physical Therapist Assistant Program at Baker College in December of 2017 and began working at Kiwi PT as a PTA in February of 2018.
Mary married her husband Daulton in 2013 and they live in Highland with their two children, Larkynn and Elliott, a dog, chickens, and a rabbit. She enjoys practicing yoga and became a 200 hour registered yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance in the Fall on 2019.
Mary became a certified LSVT BIG certified clinician (a specialized treatment for patients with Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders) in August 2019. She is also certified in BIG for LIFE, which is a specialized group class offered for people that have completed the LSVT BIG program.
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