James “Bone” Dexter is a physical therapist who has been practicing in the Albuquerque area for over thirty years.

After finishing his PT course work in 1982 he completed an internship at Ranch Los Amigos Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles which was, and remains to this day, one of the world’s foremost facilities for the study of the biomechanics of human locomotion. It was at that time that he began his quest to understand the mystery of gait (walking and running) and human movement. During his early years as a physical therapist, he was also introduced to the art and skill of making custom foot orthotics. Since that time, Mr. Dexter has devoted his professional life to the development of a unique method of treating movement dysfunction with targeted therapeutic exercise and custom shoe inserts that are specifically fashioned to correct foot function and lower extremity alignment. Over the past 30 years Mr. Dexter has personally fabricated and fitted over 20,000 pairs of custom foot orthotics through a process that he developed, himself, and continues to refine.

In 1989 Mr. Dexter became an original member of the University of New Mexico Sports Medicine Service and he remains the primary provider of custom foot orthotics for the UNM Athletic Department. In 1995 he was granted a faculty position in the UNM Division of Physical Therapy where he remains to this day. His teaching responsibilities include courses in orthopedic evaluation and treatment, human locomotion, prosthetics and orthotics, gerontology and administration and supervision for physical therapists. He recently established and serves as the director of The UNM Center for Gait and Motion analysis, New Mexico’s only digital motion analysis lab.