Meet Dr. Rachel Turner
A physician who leads with the whole picture
Dr. Rachel Turner is a board-certified family medicine physician whose training spans preventive medicine, women’s health, sports medicine, and the management of complex, overlapping chronic conditions across the lifespan. That last skill — holding many moving parts in view at once — is exactly what patients with hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome so often go without, and it is where her work at The Fascia Institute is focused.
She earned her medical degree at Tulane University School of Medicine — where she first trained under Dr. Jacques Courseault — and completed her family medicine residency at HCA TriStar Southern Hills in Nashville. Her academic path is unusually broad: before medical school she completed a Master of Science in Cellular & Molecular Biology at Tulane, along with a Master of Arts in the Social Foundations of Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University. It is a foundation that runs from the molecular biology of connective tissue to the lived, day-to-day experience of the patient in the room.
Sports medicine, primary care, and the hypermobile body
A member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and the American College of Sports Medicine, Dr. Turner approaches the body the way a sports medicine clinician does — as a system under load, where one strained link affects the whole chain. For hypermobile and EDS patients, whose joints, autonomic system, and connective tissue are all in conversation, that lens matters.
At The Fascia Institute she works alongside Dr. Courseault and continues to train directly under him in the practice’s signature tools — musculoskeletal ultrasound, Fascial Mapping®, and Hydrofascia Release™ — learning these techniques from the physician who developed them. Patients will often see the two collaborate, and that is by design: it is how the Institute keeps its methods consistent and its standard of care intact as the practice grows.
A family of physicians — and a habit of service
Medicine runs in Dr. Turner’s family, and service has shaped her career as much as science has. In 2019 she co-founded The 15 White Coats®, a nationally recognized, physician-led nonprofit that has generated more than $990,000 in charitable contributions, supported over $450,000 in scholarships, and carried its imagery and outreach into more than 10,000 classrooms worldwide — opening pathways into medicine for the next generation of clinicians.
Earlier in her career she coordinated clinical trials at a New Orleans research organization, giving her a working fluency in how evidence is built — a natural fit for a practice whose techniques are grounded in published research.