The athlete
A three-sport standout and 2007 Associated Press PIAA Class AAA Player of the Year as a
quarterback at Gettysburg High School, where he set 16 school records, Evan
was offered a preferred walk-on position at Penn State and earned a scholarship, contributing
as a starting punt returner, wide receiver, cornerback, quarterback, and placekicker,
including a 43-yard field goal against No. 2 Alabama. During his senior year, Evan ranked as
Penn State's top wide receiver in overall strength index. Across his time at Penn State and
his post-graduate preparation for an NFL combine opportunity at the Miami Dolphins' facility,
he recorded a 4.48-second 40-yard dash, 525-pound squat, 18 reps on the 225-pound
bench press, 3.89-second shuttle, 33-inch vertical jump, and 9-foot-8-inch broad jump.
The mission
That athletic background, a B.S. in Kinesiology, and his own four-day comeback pointed Evan
toward a clear mission: pay it forward to as many athletes as possible, at every level,
through the lens of the nervous system. That drive led him to found Premier
Neuro Therapy in 2015.
His first client was returning from ACL reconstruction and meniscus repair. Just three months
after surgery, the athlete was cleared to return to football, providing an early indication of
what was possible and foreshadowing the specialized ACL model Evan would launch six years later.
The immediate impact
Working with Washington Nationals players in 2016, his system produced a 50% reduction in
Injured List days against the organization's five-year average, with athletes returning to the
field 67% faster than traditional timelines. Documented MLB pitchers also
showed velocity gains of 2.3 to 3.2 mph following his program, despite
multi-year flat baselines that ruled out natural progression. These pitchers came in injured,
with getting them healthy as the only objective. The velocity gains that followed were an
unexpected result of the process.
Across more than a decade, the methodology has continued to evolve and become more precise
while remaining rooted in the same foundation: it is not condition-specific. It is
nervous system-specific. When the nervous system is optimized, the body
responds, regardless of what brought someone through the door. Notably, 78% of clients
had already failed traditional approaches, including rest, physical therapy,
medication, or surgery, before arriving. The most challenging cases are the baseline, not the
exception.
Today
Evan has worked with notable athletes across professional sports, and perhaps the most
documented example is his post-ACL recovery work with
Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon
Barkley, who achieved a 130% improvement in ACL recovery scores over two months. In a
single 60-minute session, Barkley restored movement he had been unable to perform since before
his injury. With 14 years of experience behind him, Evan's focus now is putting the system in
the hands of as many practitioners and fitness professionals as possible through the
Volta X certification and mentorship programs.
Your injury doesn’t define you. How you respond to it does.
