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Since 2008

We started with one question.
What if we got there first?

Before the claim. Before the surgery. Before the employee quietly decided the job wasn't worth it. That question has driven everything we have built since 2008.

17+
years in workplace injury prevention
100+
Injury Prevention Specialists in the field
15k+
employees supported every day
20
states with active specialist coverage
Our story

The clinic was full. The injuries kept coming. Something had to change.

Delaine Fowler spent years treating workplace injuries as a physical therapist. The patients came in hurt. She helped them recover. They went back to work. Some of them came back again.

She kept asking the same question: why are we waiting for this to happen?

The answer, she realized, was that no one was on the floor. No one was there in the moment when a shoulder started to ache, when a worker pushed through fatigue instead of saying something, when a workstation design was quietly building toward a claim that would take months to resolve and thousands of dollars to close.

In 2008, she built a program to fix that. Not another phone number on a break room poster. Not a quarterly ergonomics visit. A real person, on the floor, every shift, close enough to catch what a once-a-year audit never would.

That model works. The data shows it. And over the past 17 years, we have taken it across 20 states to facilities in manufacturing, logistics, construction, food production, and beyond.

Today, more than 100 Injury Prevention Specialists work inside client facilities every day. They are coaching 15,000 employees on how to work smarter, move better, and stay on the floor longer. They are documenting every interaction so that when renewal time comes, our clients walk into that meeting with evidence rather than estimates.

The question that started this company has not changed. We just keep finding better ways to answer it.

Built on a care and coaching model

2008
Year the company was founded by Delaine Fowler, PT DPT
100+
Injury Prevention Specialists embedded inside client facilities
15,000+
Employees receiving care and coaching every single day
20
States with active coverage and growing
Leadership

The people who built this and run it every day

Two people who have spent their careers inside the problem, not studying it from a distance.

Delaine Fowler, PT DPT, President of Accelerate Therapy and Performance
Delaine Fowler
President
PT DPT

Delaine spent years treating workplace injuries as a physical therapist before asking the question that changed everything: why are we waiting for this to happen? She founded Accelerate in 2008 to put qualified specialists on the floor before injuries occurred, treating employees as industrial athletes rather than patients waiting to happen.

Applying care and coaching inside the workplace had a profoundly positive impact on the employee base we worked with. That is when I knew this was the work.

Today she leads Accelerate's national growth strategy and is a keynote speaker on workplace safety. Outside of work she trains for triathlons and keeps up with three boys.

Jay Hubbard, COO of Accelerate Therapy and Performance
Jay Hubbard
Chief Operating Officer
MS, LAT, ATC, PES

Jay is a 2008 Central Michigan University graduate in Athletic Training and Sports Medicine. He went on to Syracuse University as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer, then spent four years at Georgetown University with the Men's Soccer program that reached the 2012 National Championship final. Before joining Accelerate, he served as Sports Medicine Field Manager at UHS Hospital in Binghamton, NY.

My role is to ensure our specialists have everything they need to provide the best care for the people we serve. I take pride in helping others succeed.

Jay manages the operational infrastructure that keeps 100-plus specialists aligned across 20 states. He spends his time outside of work with his wife Tiffany and their three children.

How we work

The things that do not change no matter the client, the state, or the industry

These are not values we put on a poster. They are the operating principles that show up in how every specialist shows up every shift.

The specialist relationship is everything

We put the same person on the same floor, every shift. Your team knows their name. They trust them. That trust is what makes employees come forward early instead of waiting until something becomes a claim.

We measure everything

Every interaction is documented. Every intervention is logged. When your pre-renewal claim review comes, you walk in with data, not stories. That documentation is part of what we deliver.

Early beats expensive every time

A two-minute conversation on a Tuesday prevents a six-figure claim in November. We are built around catching things early, not managing them after the fact. That is the entire model.

The program fits the facility

A food processing line in Milwaukee is not a distribution center in Charlotte. We build every program around the specific physical demands of your operation. Generic approaches produce generic results.

We speak the language of operations

Our clients are HR directors, operations managers, and risk managers. We report in their metrics: E-Mod impact, claim reduction rates, RTW timelines. Not wellness scores. Not step counts.

We care about the people, not just the numbers

The financial case for prevention is strong and we make it clearly. But the reason this work matters is that real people go home healthier, move better, and stay in the workforce longer. That is worth doing regardless of the math.

Ready to work together?

Tell us about your workforce.
30 minutes. No obligation.

We will walk through your current injury data, show you what a prevention program would look like for your specific operation, and give you an honest picture of what it would return.

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No sales pressure. Just a straightforward conversation about your workforce.