The Fascia Institute & Treatment Center®

Meet the experts behind your care

You’re not choosing one more clinic that added “fascia” to its menu — you’re choosing the practice that helped define the field. This is where Hydrofascia Release™ and Fascial Mapping® were invented, and where patients fly in from across the country and abroad for care they can’t find anywhere else.
Why patients travel the world to us

The team that helped build the field

Sports medicine, fascia, and hypermobility are usually treated as three unrelated subjects. Our work is the argument — made in journals and in clinic — that they are one.

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Paper published on fascial hydrodissection — an industry first

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Procedures invented here: Hydrofascia Release™ & Fascial Mapping®

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Peer-reviewed papers, chapters & published case reports

1 of the 1st

Clinics built specifically for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome — per NPR Louisiana
What sets us apart

Expertise you won’t find together anywhere else

Any one of these can be found elsewhere. Together, in one physician-led practice, they’re rare.
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Procedures invented here
Hydrofascia Release™ and the head-to-toe Fascial Mapping® assessment were developed here and are performed nowhere else in the world.
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A published research record
The first paper on fascial hydrodissection, 10+ peer-reviewed papers and chapters, and an open clinical case library you can read yourself.
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A new diagnosis, defined here
Folate-dependent hypermobility syndrome was first proposed in our research, published in Heliyon and ACR Open Rheumatology.
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One of the world’s first EDS clinics
Described by NPR Louisiana as one of the world’s first clinics built specifically for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome — backed by a physician-led, five-visit protocol.
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The whole picture, one roof
Diagnosis, regenerative treatment, autonomic and MCAS care, connective-tissue-aware GLP-1 (FLIP), and in-house physical therapy — coordinated as one plan.
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Trusted at the highest level
Sought out by professional athletes and by patients who fly in from across the country and abroad for our coordinated programs.
Physician-led care

Meet your medical providers

Meet the FIT Team: Dr. Jacques Courseault, Founder and Medical Director of The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center in Metairie, LA and FIT Fascia Institute Los Angeles and the Hypermobility & EDS Clinic.

Dr. Jacques Courseault

MD, CAQSM, FAAPMR · Founder & Medical Director
Founder of The Fascia Institute and an Assistant Professor at Tulane University School of Medicine, board-certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation with a CAQ in Sports Medicine. He published the first paper on fascial hydrodissection, developed Hydrofascia Release™ and Fascial Mapping®, and proposed folate-dependent hypermobility syndrome — work featured by NPR Louisiana, WWL-TV, and SciTechDaily. A Castle Connolly Top Doctor.
Dr. Rachel Turner @ The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center

Dr. Rachel Turner

MD · Family Medicine Physician
A board-certified family medicine physician (ABFM) and Tulane-trained clinician, Dr. Turner brings whole-person primary care and a focus on the hypermobile body to The Fascia Institute. She first trained under Dr. Courseault at Tulane and continues to train directly under him in musculoskeletal ultrasound, Fascial Mapping®, and Hydrofascia Release™ — learning these techniques from the physician who developed them. She also co-founded the national nonprofit The 15 White Coats®.

Kelli Morrell

MSN, APRN, FNP-C · Director of Clinical Medicine
Kelli leads clinical medicine at The Fascia Institute, caring for adolescent and adult patients with a focus on sports medicine, hypermobility, and EDS — and advanced expertise in fascia-related conditions, mast cell disease, and dysautonomia. With more than 15 years of nursing and advanced-practice experience, she guides patients through personalized treatment, post-surgical recovery, and education.
Kelli Morrell, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, Director of Clinical Medicine at FIT, Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in EDS and sports medicine
The people who keep it all running

The team behind your care

Behind every great visit is a dedicated team coordinating your care, welcoming you like family, and handling every detail so you can focus on healing.
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Brittany Estrade, RN, BSN, CRRN
Director of Nursing
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Hannah Reynolds, LPN
FLIP Program Coordinator & Fascia Performance Specialist, Metairie
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Taylor Brazley
Chief of Staff
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Clintt Meyers
VP of Operations
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Tyler Bazley
Practice Operations Manager

 

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Morgan Pierre
Hypermobility Coordinator
In their words

What our patients say

“
I came in curious and left impressed. Dr. Courseault and his team worked their magic, and now my neck’s feeling like a rookie again!
Shaquille O’Neal
After Hydrofascia Release™ at The Fascia Institute
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With a couple of treatments, I feel less pain and finally in control of my health journey. They are on the cutting edge of pain management and effective movement.
Caitlin Y.
Google Review

Take the next step toward better movement

From your first visit to your last, you’ll have a dedicated team in your corner — and we coordinate directly with your providers back home.