Holly Silvers, MPT

Ms. Silvers is a board-certified physical therapist specializing in sports orthopaedic rehabilitation in Santa Monica, California. She is the director of research for the Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, where her primary focus is on ACL injury prevention, articular cartilage injury prevention and rehabilitation and prevention of hip and groin injury in athletes. 

Ms. Silvers currently serves on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and has been lead or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on the prevention of ACL injury, articular cartilage injury, groin injury and patellofemoral disorders. 

A member of United States Soccer Federation’s Medical Team and FIFA’s F-Marc Medical Research Committee, Ms. Silvers is the co-chair of MLS’s M-MARC research committee and a member of the International Cartilage Research Society’s Rehabilitation Committee. She serves as spokesperson for the American Physical Therapy Association’s taskforce on ACL prevention. 

Ms. Silvers is the Director of Rehabilitation for Major League Soccer’s Chivas USA and Los Angeles Galaxy, and the Amgen Tour of California pro-tour cycling race, and serves in a research advisory role to Major League Baseball on injury prevention efforts. 

A graduate of Western University of Health Sciences with a Masters Degree of Physical Therapy and of Rutgers University with a BS in Biological Sciences and Communications, she is currently pursuing her PhD in Applied Physiology and Biomechanics at the University of Delaware.