Dr. Erienne Blanchard
Doctor Of Physical Therapy
Certification: PT, DPT, OCS, CMPT, CFC, Cert. DN, CCTT
The Compassionate Physical Therapist
Dr. Erienne Blanchard is the founder of Integrative Head & Neck Specialists and specializes in complex head, neck, jaw, and dizziness conditions. She provides comprehensive craniofacial physical therapy focused on reducing pain, restoring function, and helping patients return to daily life with confidence.
Interests
Boating
Camping
Taekwondo with Kids
Service Projects
Paperwork review & symptom check-in
Range of motion tests (neck, jaw, etc.)
Whole-body education: understand why it hurts (not just what)
Discussion of contributing factors like gut health, hormone shifts, and perimenopause
Hands-on care: soft tissue work, joint manipulation, and dry needling (if appropriate) for lasting pain management support
Custom exercise plan: the final leg of the “three-legged stool” to support long-term rehabilitation of injury.
The Compassionate Physical Therapist
Dr. Erienne Blanchard is the founder of Integrative Head & Neck Specialists and specializes in complex head, neck, jaw, and dizziness conditions. She provides comprehensive craniofacial physical therapy focused on reducing pain, restoring function, and helping patients return to daily life with confidence.
Morning Walks with Husband
Kneeboarding
Taekwondo with Kids
Puppy Training
Interests
Words from our Founder :
Doctor Erienne Blanchard
"Integrative Head & Neck Specialists was founded to provide compassionate, comprehensive care for patients experiencing complex head, neck, jaw, and dizziness conditions. Our goal is simple: to care for each patient the way we would want our own family to be cared for.”"
Here’s Why You’re in Expert Hands for Physical Therapy
How One Patient Changed the Way I Practice
HOW I BECAME 1 OF ONLY 3 IN FLORIDA
Kayla was a mechanical engineering student when her TMJ pain became so severe that she had to leave school. All of her food had to be blended and sipped through a straw.
By the time she found me, she had already seen 2 physical therapists, three to five general dentists, 2 oral surgeons, and a neurologist. She heard what so many of you hear:
❝ It's just stress. ❞ | ❝ Your scans are normal. ❞ | ❝ You'll just have to live with it. ❞
She was exhausted, in constant pain, and carrying the weight of medical trauma from being dismissed over and over and over.
In our first round of care, we got her pain under control within 6 months so that she could get back to school.
Her condition, however, had continued to progress. When she returned, her jaw joints were fusing to her skull. Her jaw opening had narrowed to only 5 millimeters. The only option left was major surgery. Joint replacements. A chin reconstruction.
In total, 44 screws would be placed in her face.
When I heard her diagnosis, I realized I didn't know enough about surgical recovery at this level. Not yet.
THEY SAID IT WOULD TAKE 5 YEARS
I called the craniofacial certification in St. Augustine and asked how I could get certified before her surgery in February.
They told me no one had completed the training in under a year. That most practitioners take 5 years.
I told them: "Watch me."
Nine months later, in January 2017, I became a certified craniofacial physical therapist. Just in time for Kayla's surgery in February.
That certification gave me what I had been missing. The precautions. The swelling protocols. Everything I needed to understand what her body was about to go through. And the confidence to say: "We can do this."
FROM STRAWS TO THE STARS
I worked with Kayla through every stage of her recovery.
Today she can eat a meal at a restaurant with her friends. She can hold someone close. She can sleep on the side of her face without waking up in pain. She finished her degree. She is working in the aerospace industry.
She has her life back.
BEING BELIEVED SHOULD BE THE NORM
Kayla's case led me not just to become 1 of 3 board-certified craniofacial physical therapists in Florida, but to serve on the board that certifies others. To draw more talent into an underserved field so that every Kayla out there gets the care they need.
Because Kayla's story, being ping-ponged from provider to provider without answers or relief, shouldn't be typical. Being believed, supported, and healed should be the norm.
That is what I provide to every patient at IHNSS.
Meet Erienne Beyond the Clinic
This Isn’t Just Another PT Clinic In Gainesville
Chronic pain in the head, neck, or jaw affects the way we breathe, sleep, speak, eat, and live. That’s why it deserves whole-body thinking and whole-person care.
– At IHNSS, most patients improve by 90% in only six sessions - compared with 12-18 visits at traditional PT clinics. –
You’ll always work directly with me, Dr. Blanchard, no handoffs, no assistants, no rushing. Just focused, expert care, rooted in science, and full of heart, to help you reclaim your life.
The Human Behind the Credentials
Most mornings start with a book and a cup of coffee to set a calm tone for my day
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Trigger is our 5-year-old Mini Schnauzer. Feisty, opinionated, and completely in charge. Penny is our 1-year-old Cavapoo.
Travis and I have been married for 18+ years. He has supported me from the start as we married 3 months before I started school for my Doctor of Physical Therapy. He tells everyone what I do before I've had a chance to introduce myself as he is so proud of me. He is, without a doubt, my best friend.
I'm also a mom to 2 incredible kids, one navigating the preteens, the other in elementary school. Outside the clinic, you'll find us on the water. Kneeboarding, tubing, splash wars. We are happiest when we’re in the water!
When we're not soaking wet, you'll find us in Taekwondo class. It is loud, it is humbling, and I absolutely love it!
