Specialties
Education
- M.S. Physical Therapy — Widener University, 1999
Karna Johnson
PT
Karna has practiced physical therapy since 1999 across orthopedics, post-head-injury rehabilitation, and pediatrics — a range that shapes how she reads the way a child moves.
Karna earned her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Widener University in 1999. Earlier in her career she worked in general outpatient orthopedics and in rehabilitation following head injury, including traumatic brain injury and stroke, alongside pediatrics, hippotherapy, and aquatics. That breadth built her understanding of how biomechanics, postural control, motor learning, and the sensory systems together shape the way a person moves through their environment.
She brings a holistic, team-based mindset to pediatric care, partnering with families rather than working around them. In sessions she leans on creativity and purposeful play — engaging a child in something genuinely fun while still working toward gross motor and mobility goals.
Clinical focus areas
- Gross motor and mobility development
- Postural control and breathing
- Motor learning
- Toe walking
- Torticollis
- Assessing adaptive equipment and mobility needs
Karna keeps up an active continuing-education habit; her most recent coursework covered toe walking, breathing with postural control, torticollis, and adaptive equipment assessment.
Outside the clinic she spends time with her husband, their two children, and two golden retrievers. She bikes, hikes, cross-country skis, gardens, and reads.
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No referral needed for most plans. Most insurance accepted. One-on-one sessions with your therapist from day one.
Most insurance accepted · No referral needed for most plans · Serving Bozeman, Belgrade, Manhattan, Four Corners & the Gallatin Valley · Mon–Fri 8am–5pm