NEARLY FIVE YEARS LATER, THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE CONTINUES

PETITION UPDATE: NEARLY FIVE YEARS LATER, THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE CONTINUES. HOW MUCH CAN ONE PERSON LOSE BEFORE SOMEONE HOLDS THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE?

To everyone who has signed, shared, prayed, donated, or supported my fight for justice, thank you. I desperately need your continued help.

I want you to imagine something.

Imagine taking out student loans to fulfill your dream of becoming a physical therapist. Imagine working 70–80 hours a week for 20 years, paying off those loans, building a successful practice, helping thousands of patients, and investing everything you have into expanding your business.

Now imagine that on the very day you receive the keys to your new building, a politically appointed government board takes away your professional license during a 46-minute telephone meeting, effectively destroying your ability to earn a living.

Imagine that the agency had possessed information underlying its investigation for nearly two years before suddenly deciding you represented an immediate danger to the public.

Imagine sitting through a 15-hour disciplinary hearing where the lead investigator acknowledges under oath that she had not reviewed the complete evidence before signing off on the investigation.

Imagine being judged by board members who do not practice the specialized treatment at issue, while clinical records, patient testimony, professional training, and established treatment principles are disregarded or disputed.

Imagine losing your livelihood over allegations involving pelvic floor physical therapy, a recognized treatment you had never received a patient complaint about.

Imagine being subjected to requirements that you maintain did not exist in the regulations when the treatment occurred, requirements that were effectively introduced during your disciplinary proceedings and applied retroactively to you.

Imagine being punished more severely than practitioners involved in documented cases of serious patient misconduct, while being unable to obtain a satisfactory explanation for the disparity.

Now imagine finally going to court and winning a partial reversal of the board's decision.

On March 27, 2023, the Henrico County Circuit Court vacated a finding and two legal conclusions involving pelvic floor treatment, consent, and referral requirements.

You might think that would change everything.

Instead, the board held a special meeting and imposed the exact same indefinite suspension, with the same minimum two-year period.

The board characterized the court's reversal as a narrow technical matter and a novel legal argument.

Imagine watching the government preserve the same punishment after part of the legal foundation supporting its original decision had been overturned.

Imagine appealing again, only to have the courts uphold the sanctions.

And imagine discovering how difficult it is to challenge an administrative agency when courts defer to its factual determinations despite the record not supporting their "findings of fact."

Deference should never mean that government agencies are beyond meaningful judicial scrutiny.

THEN CAME REINSTATEMENT. BUT NOT FREEDOM.

After years of fighting, the Board of Physical Therapy finally reinstated my license in December 2025.

Its order recognized that I was safe and competent to resume practice under conditions. It also acknowledged that certain findings did not constitute violations.

Yet I was placed on probation for not less than two years, with no automatic end date, and subjected to extensive practice restrictions.

Those restrictions continue to affect my ability to rebuild.

My probationary status has prevented me from obtaining direct-access privileges. I have also continued facing barriers to treating Medicare patients, severely limiting the practice's ability to recover financially.

Think about that.

After years of being unable to work, I am finally permitted to practice again, but the consequences of the disciplinary process continue to interfere with my ability to earn the income necessary to recover.

THE FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL DESTRUCTION IS REAL.

My family and I have exhausted our life savings.

We have accumulated enormous debt fighting these proceedings and trying to keep our business alive.

We have struggled to pay our employees, maintain our building, meet our financial obligations, and preserve everything we spent decades building.

We are working tirelessly to recover, but we are now facing the very real possibility of losing what little remains.

I cannot adequately describe what it feels like to work your entire adult life, follow the rules, help others, build something meaningful, and then watch it all unravel while desperately trying to get someone to examine the evidence.

I have contacted elected officials, professional organizations, government agencies, attorneys, journalists, and advocacy groups.

I have repeatedly asked for independent scrutiny.

I have provided documentation and explained the contradictions I believe exist between the allegations, the testimony, the medical records, and the applicable law.

Yet meaningful intervention remains elusive.

Who is supposed to protect citizens when the government agency accused of wrongdoing is the very institution exercising power over their lives?

THIS IS NO LONGER JUST ABOUT MY LICENSE.

This is about due process.

It is about government accountability.

It is about whether professional licensing boards can impose standards without proper legal authority.

It is about whether regulators must apply their rules consistently and proportionately.

It is about whether the evidence actually matters.

And it is about whether an ordinary citizen can obtain meaningful justice without being financially destroyed in the process.

I am not asking anyone to simply take my word for what happened.

I am asking people to examine the record.

Read the hearing transcripts. Review the medical documentation. Compare the sworn patient testimony to the allegations. Examine the court's reversal, the board's subsequent actions, and the reinstatement order.

If the government's actions were justified, the record should demonstrate that.

If they were not, there must be a meaningful avenue for accountability.

No American should have to sacrifice their life savings, business, career, and family's financial security simply to demand that the government follow the law.

I AM ASKING FOR YOUR HELP, NOW MORE THAN EVER.

After nearly five years, I am exhausted. My family is exhausted. We have sacrificed more than I ever imagined possible.

But I am not willing to accept that government officials can exercise this kind of power without having their actions subjected to meaningful independent examination.

I am asking everyone reading this update to help in whatever way they can:

Share this petition and update. Help bring this story to people outside my immediate circle.
Contact Virginia's elected officials. Ask them to examine the documented procedural concerns and the oversight of professional licensing boards.
Share this with journalists, investigative reporters, and civil liberties organizations. The underlying documents and court decisions deserve independent scrutiny.
Help connect me with attorneys, advocates, and organizations experienced in administrative law, constitutional rights, and government accountability.
Continue supporting and praying for my family. We are doing everything possible to keep our business alive while pursuing accountability.
To everyone who has stood beside us, I cannot thank you enough. Your support has meant more than you know, especially during the moments when it has felt as though every institution that should provide protection has turned its back.

I spent more than two decades dedicating my life to helping other people.

Today, I am the one desperately asking for help.

I do not want special treatment. I want equal treatment.

I do not want the evidence ignored. I want it independently examined.

I do not want revenge. I want accountability, fairness, and justice.

And I want to know that what happened to me cannot simply happen to the next healthcare professional who finds themselves facing the overwhelming power of a government licensing board.

Please do not let this story disappear. Please share this petition. Please help us get the attention of someone with the authority and courage to act.

Because after nearly five years of fighting, the question remains:

If the government can take away everything you worked your entire life to build, and meaningful accountability remains out of reach, what protection do any of us truly have?

With sincere gratitude,

Scott Jonathan Roberts, PT, MPT
Owner, Roberts Physical Therapy & Massage
Richmond, Virginia

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