About Us
The team behind South Jersey Physical Therapy.
1-on-1 with a doctoral-level provider, every session. Every person on this team treats patients directly.
1-on-1 with a doctoral-level provider, every session. Every person on this team treats patients directly.
No aides, no handoffs. The provider you meet with is the one doing the work.
Dr. Ken Cheng
Owner, Physical Therapist
Founded South Jersey Physical Therapy after his own experience with open heart surgery and a medical system that offered no answers for what came after. Specializes in whole-body assessment, root cause identification, and Eastern/Western integration. Every new patient evaluation is with him.
Dr. Gina Bischof
Physical Therapist
Known for her work in diaphragmatic and visceral treatment. Organ tension contributes to musculoskeletal pain more often than most providers assess for. One patient reported that GERD symptoms resolved after her first session with Dr. Bischof, following a single diaphragm manipulation and a home exercise.
Dr. Dante Venuto
Physical Therapist
Specializes in knee and hip rehabilitation. One patient with a bone-on-bone knee came under his care when a replacement had been recommended. With targeted exercise and mechanics work, that patient now walks with confidence and has deferred surgery, with their orthopedist in agreement.
Collin Dittmar
Elevated Movement Program
Leads the strength and conditioning side of the practice. Works with patients in both 1-on-1 and small group formats through the Elevated Movement Program, focusing on long-term resilience after the clinical phase of care is complete.
Haley Erbe
Team Member
Part of the South Jersey PT team, contributing to patient care and the day-to-day operation of the practice.
Ken Cheng was born in the Bronx and moved to South Jersey at age 6. His parents owned Chinese restaurants. He grew up around long hours, physical work, and the discipline that comes with running something on your own.
He was active his whole life. Sports, movement, physical challenges. From an early age, he also dealt with chronic low back and neck pain. He adapted around it the way athletes do.
In his twenties, he was told he had a small heart murmur he would outgrow. What he did not know was how serious it had become. He underwent open heart surgery to close a dime-sized hole between the two upper chambers of his heart.
After surgery, he saw doctor after doctor. He kept asking why he was still having so many issues when his heart was "fixed." None of them had a useful answer.
He went to physical therapy school determined to learn how to heal himself. He graduated at the top of his class, was inducted into the Alpha Eta Society for Clinical Excellence, and trained alongside top surgeons at the Rothman Institute.
What he observed in practice was that patients receiving injections and pain medications were getting short-term relief without addressing the underlying problem. The same people came back. The same pain returned. The only other option presented to most of them was surgery.
He opened South Jersey Physical Therapy with an emphasis on natural alternatives to painkillers, injections, and unnecessary procedures. He grew up around Eastern medicine through his family background and trained rigorously in Western doctoral-level PT. The practice integrates both.
"We look at the whole body as a whole system. Everything is interwoven. And if you go ahead and balance out the overall health of your body, your body will treat you so well, to where you are treating to the deepest root causes."
Dr. Ken Cheng, Owner and Physical Therapist
Cash-based was a deliberate decision. Insurance restrictions determine how many visits you get, how long each session runs, and what types of treatment are covered. Removing that structure was the only way to consistently do what each patient's body actually needed.
These are not marketing points. They are the actual decisions the practice was built around.
Root cause over symptom management
Pain in one location frequently originates somewhere else. The assessment process follows the mechanics until the actual source is identified. Treating only where it hurts tends to produce temporary relief.
Eastern and Western integration
Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and Ayurvedic principles are part of the clinical model alongside doctoral-level Western PT. The two frameworks are not in conflict. They address different layers of the same system.
1-on-1, every session
No aides, no rotation. The provider who evaluated you is the one doing the work, every visit. Mechanics change session to session. That requires someone paying attention, not handing off to a protocol.
Education creates independence
You know why each treatment decision is made before you leave the room. The goal is a patient who understands their own body well enough that they need less help over time, not more.
Movement is medicine
Controlled, specific movement is one of the most effective interventions available for musculoskeletal pain. Passive modalities support the process. Movement drives the result.
Cash-based removes restrictions
Insurance sets limits on visit count, session length, and approved treatments. Those limits are set by actuaries, not by what your body needs. Operating outside that system lets us follow the clinical picture wherever it leads.
20 minutes, 1-on-1 with a doctor, to see if the way we work makes sense for your situation.
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