About

Located within the offices of Spine & Sport Annapolis,

Rooted Therapeutix provides personalized therapeutic services designed to support pain relief, athletic recovery, stress management, and overall wellness.

Guided by the principles of movement, therapeutic touch, and mindfulness, our approach is centered on meeting each client's individual needs through thoughtful, evidence-informed care. Whether recovering from injury, managing stress, enhancing athletic performance, or seeking greater balance, our goal is to help clients improve function, restore resilience, and experience a meaningful sense of physical well-being.

 Athena Boyd, LMT, BCTMB

Athena Boyd is a Maryland Licensed Massage Therapist with more than 22 years of experience serving patients in athletic facilities, medical clinics, private practice, and corporate wellness settings. Since 2021, she has been an active member of the multidisciplinary team at Spine & Sport Annapolis, providing therapeutic care focused on pain relief, athletic recovery, stress management, and overall physical well-being.

Athena's career in health and wellness began in the mid-1990s as a personal trainer and health coach while studying Sports Medicine. By 2003, she was providing massage therapy services to gymnasts, cyclists, triathletes, and other competitive athletes, including many affiliated with the United States Naval Academy.

Over the next decade, Athena built a successful private practice centered on an integrative approach to pain management, athletic recovery, and stress reduction. During this time, she also served as an educator, teaching anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, health sciences, and therapeutic modalities to massage therapy students through Steiner Education Group and Tru Mantra Education.

Driven by a passion for sports medicine and human performance, Athena returned her focus fully to clinical practice and advanced training. She deepened her expertise in fascial manipulation, assisted stretching, movement-based therapies, and nervous system regulation while earning the profession's highest credentials. She is both Nationally Board Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (BCTMB) and Nationally Certified in Sports Therapy.

Throughout her career, Athena has worked with professional, collegiate, competitive, and recreational athletes. Her experience includes serving on recovery and sports medicine teams supporting organizations such as the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Frederick Keys and other professionals.

Today, Athena continues to provide individualized therapeutic care while also developing continuing education programs for massage therapists and wellness professionals. Her clinical approach integrates therapeutic massage, myofascial techniques, lymphatic drainage, trigger point therapy, assisted stretching, and recovery-focused therapies designed to improve movement, reduce pain, support recovery, and regulate the effects of stress on the body.

Athena believes that movement, therapeutic touch, and mindfulness are foundational elements of health. Her goal is to meet each client where they are, helping them improve function, build resilience, and achieve a greater sense of balance and well-being.

She is proud to serve the diverse community at Spine & Sport Annapolis and currently serves as Lead Massage Therapist for the University of Maryland Football, Continuing education provider for Manual Therapy Alliance LLC and host of Rooted Therapeutix' biannual therapist CEU retreat in Annapolis, MD.