Dr. Jacques Courseault, MD, CAQSM, FAAPMR · Beverly Hills · Los Angeles

The physician who built fascia medicine brought it to Beverly Hills.

Los Angeles has no shortage of recovery studios and wellness brands. What it didn’t have — until Dr. Courseault opened on Crescent Drive — was the sports medicine physician who published the founding research, invented the procedures, and runs the original Fascia Institute. The credentials below are linked, sourced, and checkable.

Board-certified, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · CAQ Sports Medicine · Tulane University School of Medicine faculty · Founder, The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center® of LA

Published & Interviewed By

NPR Louisiana (WWNO)
WWL-TV (CBS)
SciTechDaily
Current Sports Medicine Reports (ACSM)
Heliyon (Cell Press)
ACR Open Rheumatology
Lateral Think Podcast (AUS)

“Fascia” is everywhere in Los Angeles right now — on studio schedules, in recovery lounges, across wellness feeds. Almost none of it traces back to a physician. The Fascia Institute of LA does: its founder spent a career as a board-certified sports medicine physician proving, publishing, and refining what fascia-first care actually means.

What began as pop-up clinics in Torrance became a permanent home on North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills’ Golden Triangle — the California outpost of the original Fascia Institute in New Orleans. Patients come from Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Brentwood, and across Southern California for one reason: the doctor seeing them wrote the research everyone else quotes.

Dr. Jacques Courseault examines a patient — the same hands-on, physician-led evaluation now offered on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.

Pillar One · Sports Medicine

From SEC sidelines and bowl games to Crescent Drive.

Before medicine, there was the training room: Dr. Courseault worked as an athletic trainer for Tulane, trained at Georgia Tech, and spent years as a personal trainer. The MD came next — then board certification in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine.

His sideline résumé reads like a tour of American sport: team physician for LSU, Tulane, Southern, and Loyola; physician coverage at the Allstate Sugar Bowl since 2018; team physician for the Cotton Bowl; team physician for Major League Rugby’s NOLA Gold and advisor on the league’s player-safety protocols; medical director of the Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon; coverage at the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. He currently consults for multiple NFL teams.

The athlete list keeps growing: WNBA champion Theresa Plaisance; NFL linebacker DeMario Davis, through the FIT ELITE Performance Group program; professional pitcher Eric Reyzelman, back to high-level throwing after Hydrofascia Release™ and metabolic work; NFL quarterback Jameis Winston, assessed with Fascial Mapping®. In Los Angeles — a city that runs on physical performance, from training facilities to film sets — that experience now sits one appointment away.

Pillar Two · Fascia

LA discovered fascia recently. He published on it in 2019.

The first paper describing fascial hydrodissection for chronic hamstring injury carries his name — Current Sports Medicine Reports, 2019, the American College of Sports Medicine’s clinical review journal. He followed it with an ulnar-nerve fascial adhesion case in a baseball pitcher (JSES, 2022) and an open case library spanning hamstrings, scapular pain, post-surgical stiffness, and low back pain.

From that research came procedures you can book in Beverly Hills: Hydrofascia Release™, his ultrasound-guided release of fascial adhesions; Fascial Mapping®, the 488-point head-to-toe assessment he invented; Human TECAR therapy; and the Fascia Performance Program — the latter two available only at the LA location.

His ultrasound authority is institutional, too: developer and lead instructor of Tulane’s CME-accredited First Wave Ultrasound Course for athletic trainers and physical therapists, and a consultant to handheld-ultrasound maker Butterfly, which published his point-of-care ultrasound playbook for sports medicine teams.

Pillar Three · Hypermobility & EDS

A city full of flexible bodies finally has the physician who studies them.

Dancers, actors, stunt performers, yogis, gymnasts — Los Angeles concentrates hypermobile body types like nowhere else, and most have spent years being told their pain, fatigue, and injuries are unrelated. Dr. Courseault is one of the few physicians anywhere who treats hypermobility as a career specialty: he secured the $200,000 grant that established Tulane’s Hypermobility & EDS Clinic and served as its principal investigator and director before founding the Fascia Institute’s own clinics.

His research changed how the condition is understood. The 2023 Heliyon paper proposing folate-dependent hypermobility syndrome gave a long-dismissed condition a biochemical mechanism — and a treatment target — while the 2024 ACR Open Rheumatology study showed how widespread the underlying MTHFR variants are in hypermobile patients. National science press covered it; NPR Louisiana introduced his clinic as among the world’s first built specifically for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

For California patients, the meaning is practical: the physician-led hypermobility evaluation developed in New Orleans — ultrasound assessment, genetic and metabolic workup, structured treatment plan — is available through the Beverly Hills office, without flying to Louisiana. Contact the LA clinic to begin.

“Hypermobility is like a Ferrari that requires a lot of maintenance and the best synthetic oil.”

Dr. Jacques Courseault — on his hypermobility research, SciTechDaily (2023)

The Receipts

Research on the record. Honors on the wall.

A working bibliography and recognition record — every item linked or citable, none of it marketing copy.

Press & Interviews

The coverage came to him — radio, television, science press, podcasts.

Why It Matters Here

In a city of wellness brands, be treated by the source.

Los Angeles will sell you a hundred versions of “fascia work.” Almost none come with a physician, a publication record, an invented assessment, or a board certification in sports medicine — let alone all four. When the person holding the ultrasound probe is the one who wrote the first paper on the technique, secured the grant, taught the courses, and answered the press’s questions, the difference is not branding. It is the standard of care.

From Beverly Hills and the Westside to the Valley, Orange County, and patients flying in from across California — this is where fascia medicine, sports medicine, and hypermobility care meet in one exam room.

See the physician behind the field.

Athlete, performer, or a patient who has waited years for someone to connect the dots — the evaluation starts in Beverly Hills.

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The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center® of LA · 415 N Crescent Dr., Ste. 130, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 · (424) 378-3488