{"id":14,"date":"2026-04-17T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:28:45","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Castanuela teaches multiple courses within the DPT curriculum at Tarleton State University. His expertise is within orthopaedic physical therapy practice. Prior to transitioning to academia, he practiced at a rural hospital-based outpatient clinic in Eastland, Texas treating a wide variety of patient diagnoses across the lifespan including orthopaedics, sports, post-surgical, acute care, and wound care. His research interests include rural health and post-surgical rehabilitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-advgb-accordions advgb-accordions-c961d7ca-8750-4b66-9e25-16b30a8e0a0b advgb-accordion-wrapper\" data-collapsed=\"true\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-advgb-accordion-item advgb-accordion-item\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px\"><div class=\"advgb-accordion-header\" style=\"background-color:#4f2d7f;color:#fff;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-radius:2px\"><span class=\"advgb-accordion-header-icon accordion-state\"><svg class=\"advgb-icon-closed\" fill=\"#fff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0,0h24v24H0V0z\"><\/path><path d=\"M12,2C6.48,2,2,6.48,2,12s4.48,10,10,10s10-4.48,10-10S17.52,2,12,2z M17,13h-4v4h-2v-4H7v-2h4V7h2v4h4V13z\"><\/path><\/svg><svg class=\"advgb-icon-opened\" fill=\"#fff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path 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style=\"margin-bottom:15px\"><div class=\"advgb-accordion-header\" style=\"background-color:#4f2d7f;color:#fff;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-radius:2px\"><span class=\"advgb-accordion-header-icon accordion-state\"><svg class=\"advgb-icon-closed\" fill=\"#fff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0,0h24v24H0V0z\"><\/path><path d=\"M12,2C6.48,2,2,6.48,2,12s4.48,10,10,10s10-4.48,10-10S17.52,2,12,2z M17,13h-4v4h-2v-4H7v-2h4V7h2v4h4V13z\"><\/path><\/svg><svg class=\"advgb-icon-opened\" fill=\"#fff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0,0h24v24H0V0z\"><\/path><path d=\"M12,2C6.48,2,2,6.48,2,12s4.48,10,10,10s10-4.48,10-10S17.52,2,12,2z M17,13H7v-2h10V13z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><h3 class=\"advgb-accordion-header-title\" style=\"color:inherit\">Accomplishments<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"advgb-accordion-body\" style=\"border-style:solid !important;border-width:1px !important;border-color:undefined !important;border-top:none !important;border-radius:2px !important\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Certified in Spinal Manipulative Therapy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Certified in Dry Needling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program (CCIP), Level 1 APTA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Certified Functional Movement Specialist (FMS), Level 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-advgb-accordion-item advgb-accordion-item\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px\"><div class=\"advgb-accordion-header\" style=\"background-color:#4f2d7f;color:#fff;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-radius:2px\"><span class=\"advgb-accordion-header-icon accordion-state\"><svg class=\"advgb-icon-closed\" fill=\"#fff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0,0h24v24H0V0z\"><\/path><path 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His expertise is within orthopaedic physical therapy practice. Prior to transitioning to academia, he practiced at a rural hospital-based outpatient clinic in Eastland, Texas treating a wide variety of patient diagnoses across the lifespan including orthopaedics, sports, post-surgical, acute care, and wound &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/author\/sw_ttremaintarleton-edu\/","display_name":"Tremain, Taylor"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 weeks ago","modified":"Updated 1 week ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 17, 2026","modified":"Updated on April 29, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 17, 2026 2:33 pm","modified":"Updated on April 29, 2026 3:28 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.tarleton.edu\/jcastanuela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}