Meet Sean Light: Founder of Saint Bartholomew's

Saint Bartholomew’s is the truth surrounding chronic pain as I have discovered it.

Aug 10, 2025

Sean Light PRT, CSCS, LMT is the founder and President of Saint Bartholomew’s.

Prior to opening Saint Bartholomew’s, Light was the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA) and the Arizona Diamondbacks (MLB).

He holds a Master’s Degree in Sport Performance & Injury Prevention, is a Licensed Massage Therapist, a Postural Restoration Therapist and holds over 30 professional licenses and certifications.

This Was Never Supposed to Happen

I graduated from college in 2010 with a degree in Print Journalism.

I spent my entire life dedicated to fulfilling my childhood dream of playing in the NBA and when that didn’t happen, I was left with a degree that I wanted nothing to do with.

For the first year, I actually was a journalist for the New Haven Register in New Haven, Connecticut. But that only lasted for a few months.

The following year, I was a substitute high school teacher, but I hated that also.

After two failed career attempts, I was really struggling to find direction.

On a friend’s suggestion, I decided to try and become a Strength and Conditioning Coach. I thought it would be a cool way to stay involved in sports and it came with the perk of being able to wear shorts to work every day.

In 2012, I passed the Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach Exam and a year later, landed my first job as a Coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball.

My Chronic Pain

I still remember my first migraine headache. I was in the second grade, standing in the living room when a felt a dull pain start to build behind my eyes.

Over the next hour or so, the pain would get so bad, that I threw up all over the bathroom.

This was the first of many.

My parents and I tried everything we could think of to fix it but nothing ever worked.

During my first Spring Training with the Diamondbacks, that hot, Arizona sun got the best of me and I began to feel that familiar pain click on behind my eyes.

Panicked about what was about to happen, I pleaded with our medical staff in hopes they had something that might help.

A few minutes later, our medical director walked into the training room and began putting me through a battery of strange tests and exercises.

“Stand up and walk around,” he told me after a particularly unique activation technique.

As I slowly rose to my feet and began moving, I realized that a miracle had just happened.

The pain was gone.

I had just assumed that these headaches were going to be a part of my life forever and for the first time, a small light appeared at the end of the tunnel representing the possibility that this could be solved.

This was my moment.

Commitment to What Works

I became obsessed with fixing pain.

Whenever one of my athletes had any aches or pains, I rushed over to try some new technique that I just learned to see if it would work.

Interestingly, I had an advantage that my colleagues did not.

Because I had a degree in Journalism, I was looking through an entirely different lens when it came to how to treat pain.

I had no idea what was written in the textbooks. I had no clue what we were SUPPOSED to be doing.

I was only concerned with what actually worked.

Additionally, I knew that because of my unrelated degree, anyone considering me for a job at a higher level would always ask about my unrelated college degree.

I knew that I had to deliver bigger and faster results than anyone else.

This forced me into a radically different perspective than everyone else in the industry.

This perspective was one of the key driving forces for me to start studying the human brain and it drove me to accumulate dozens of professional licenses and certifications and read nearly 300 books on the subject.

Soon, I began to develop a reputation.

“The Neuro Guy”

After a few years of this, I began to develop a reputation around the sports industry. Others around professional sports were starting to notice my unique way of doing things.

First, I was asked to be a keynote presenter at the National Strength and Conditioning Association Conference in Louisville, Kentucky to outline my approach to pain.

Next universities like Sacred Heart University, the College of Holy Cross and Springfield College invited me to be a guest lecturer for their Sports Medicine departments.

Everyone began referring to me as “The Neuro Guy.”

Finally Making it to the NBA

I spent my entire childhood dreaming of making it to the NBA and in 2016 after five years of studying pain and neuroscience, I was hired to be the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Los Angeles Lakers.

It was a dream come true.

Saint Bartholomew’s

Since leaving the NBA, I have had the privilege of working with so many people suffering with chronic pain.

Each case is unique.

Some clients are able to shake the pain through corrective exercise alone, but for others something was still missing.

As I continued to dive deeper, learn more and search for the missing link, a familiar pattern began to emerge.

A “Neuro” pattern.

I began to test some of my neurological frameworks with my most difficult clients and suddenly, they started to get better.

I tried it with one client. Then another. Then a few more.

They were really getting better and I simply could no longer deny that the brain was a major player in the chronic pain cycle.

Saint Bartholomew’s is the truth surrounding chronic pain as I have discovered it. Sometimes it’s an uncomfortable truth and often times it’s not easy, but it’s the truth nonetheless.

I didn’t build Saint Bartholomew’s to be a big business. I built it to deliver lasting pain relief to good people like you, who deserve a real path to getting better, led by people who genuinely care about delivering that result to you.

Professional Licenses and Certifications:

Registered Strength & Conditioning Coach (RSCC)
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT)
Postural Restoration Institute – Postural Restoration Trained (PRT)
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in Pelvic Restoration
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in Myokinematic Restoration
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in Postural Respiration
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in Cervical Revolution
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in Impingement and Instability
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in Advanced Integration
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in Vision Integration for the Baseball Player
Postural Restoration Institute – Certified in PRI Integration for the Baseball Player
Functional Movement Screen - Level 2 Certified (FMS)
Active Release Technique - Upper Extremity Certified (ART)
BioForce - Certified Conditioning Coach
Athletes Acceleration – Certified Speed and Agility Coach
NASM - Performance Exercise Specialist (PES)
Functional Range Conditioning Certified (FRC)
Certified Member of the National Association of Speed and Explosion (NASE)
CPR/AED Certified by American Red Cross
Member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association

Presentations:

2015 National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) National Coach’s Conference
2018 National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) New Jersey State Clinic
Springfield College – The Neurology of the Athlete
Quinnipiac University – The Role of Fascia in Biomechanics
Sacred Heart University – Soft Tissue Techniques Simplified
College of Holy Cross – The genMAX Training Model
Equinox Trainer Forum – Discover genMAX.
2019 National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) Massachusetts State Clinic