I'm Edward Stevenson — most people call me Eddie. I built Gallatin OrthoSport to bridge rehab and performance for active Montanans, because the system that's supposed to do that doesn't.
After years in the clinic, I grew frustrated watching insurance dictate care — cutting people off long before they were actually ready to get back to the mountain, the trail, or the season they were training for. People got "cleared" while still walking with a limp. Athletes got discharged because a calendar said so, then quietly reinjured themselves trying to come back to sport on their own.
Gallatin OrthoSport is the practice I wanted to exist when I was watching that play out: clinical-grade reasoning, performance-grade programming, no insurance gatekeeping the timeline. You progress when your body earns it.
I'm a Doctor of Physical Therapy and certified personal trainer based in the Gallatin Valley. I keep a small clinical case-load reserved for professional skiers in active rehabilitation — that's where the deepest tissue tolerance and return-to-sport thinking gets developed, and it's where my PT capacity goes. The rest of the practice is performance training for active Montanans: skiers, snowboarders, climbers, trail runners, mountain bikers, and people who plan to keep doing all of that into their 70s. Some are post-surgical. Some are healthy and want a real program. The same evidence-based, criterion-driven system runs underneath all of it.
My specialty inside that work is ski-specific performance training and ACL return-to-sport preparation — the demands skiing puts on a knee (variable terrain, high eccentric forces, rapid deceleration, asymmetrical loading) are exactly what most rehab programs don't prepare for. That's the gap I fill.
In person, the work happens at Trifecta Fitness in Bozeman — 1-on-1 Personal Training, small-group Mountain Athlete classes (Trail Prep / Ski Prep / Maintenance), the in-person ACL Bridge (1-on-1 or small-group format), Ski Team Consulting, and Big Sky ski-day prep + manual therapy recovery. For athletes outside the Gallatin Valley who want clinical-grade programming, the digital products live on Montis — same system, delivered remotely.
Every program here runs on the same backbone: criterion-based progression, not calendar-based. You don't move forward because the calendar says you should — you move forward because the testing says you can. Your quad's Limb Symmetry Index drives ACL Bridge progression. Movement quality and tolerance govern the rest.
It's slower for some athletes. It's safer for everyone. And it ends with a body that's actually ready, not just a calendar that says it should be.
ACL Bridge is a structured performance program for athletes who have already been discharged from formal physical therapy. It is not clinical intervention. I don't do imaging, differential diagnosis on active concerns, or post-surgical wound care. If something flags during assessment — pain that doesn't pattern with mechanical loading, joint effusion, neurological symptoms — the patient goes back to their surgeon or PT immediately. My clinical PT case-load (separate from ACL Bridge) is intentionally narrow: professional skiers in active rehabilitation.
If you're a surgeon, PT, or athletic trainer evaluating whether to send patients into ACL Bridge, the referral page covers the workflow, communication standards (block transition notes, patient release for clinical communication), and the three ways to refer. Or reach me directly at
