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About Dr. Ariana Fontenot

Clinical authority. Founder energy. Built for the corporate stage.

Dr. Ariana Fontenot is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, the founder of Slight Motion, and the author of PainProof. She built the Human Operating System from a decade of patient data — and now installs it inside high-performing companies.

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Founder story

Built from the patients corporate wellness gave up on.

Ariana started Slight Motion after a decade of treating high-performing patients whose chronic pain had survived every other system — orthopedics, traditional PT, spinal injections, even surgery. The pattern she kept seeing wasn't in the tissue. It was in the 23 hours she didn't get to see.

The Human Operating System is what she built to fix that. It started as a clinical protocol, then became a workshop, then a corporate engagement, then a book. Today it's the framework she installs inside companies that have outgrown perks-as-wellness and need real biological infrastructure.

She is based in Houston, TX and speaks, consults, and ships engagements across the United States.

Credentials

Clinical authority. Operator instincts. Founder ambition.

DPT

Doctor of Physical Therapy

Clinician

10,000+ hours of patient care

Founder

Founder of Slight Motion

Author

PainProof: How Habits Heal

Speaker

Conferences, founder summits, exec offsites

Operator

Multi-location performance practice

Press & podcasts

On stage and in the feed.

Ariana speaks regularly on the founder, healthcare, and workforce podcast circuit. Booking inquiries: speaking@slightmotionpt.com.

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Work with Ariana

Bring a clinician with founder energy to your stage or your team.