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About Us

Where performance, lifestyle, and wellness converge.

TRIDENT – Performance | Lifestyle | Wellness was created to redefine what modern wellness care can look like. We are a physician-led, integrated clinic in Virginia Beach bringing together advanced medicine, disciplined lifestyle optimization, and restorative wellness under one roof. At TRIDENT, we believe people should not have to choose between clinical credibility and whole-person care. Too often, patients and clients are forced to navigate a fragmented system where pain management, physical rehabilitation, hormone optimization, recovery services, and long-term wellness all exist in separate silos. Our model is different...

 

Our care philosophy is rooted in three pillars:

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Performance — restoring and elevating physical capability, resilience, recovery, and human output.

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Lifestyle — building sustainable habits, discipline, metabolic health, and long-term vitality.

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Wellness — supporting healing, balance, restoration, and whole-person well-being.

 

Whether someone is recovering from injury, managing chronic pain, rebuilding strength, addressing hormone or metabolic concerns, or simply working toward a stronger and more intentional life, TRIDENT is designed to meet them with precision, purpose, and professionalism.​

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Our Story

TRIDENT was born from a shared belief among its founding team: that the future of health care should be more integrated, more proactive, and more human.

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Its founders come from diverse but highly complementary backgrounds in medicine, rehabilitation, hyperbaric operations, executive leadership, and performance-focused care. Together, they saw the same recurring problem from different angles: too many people were receiving care that was reactive instead of strategic, fragmented instead of coordinated, and temporary instead of transformational.

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Patients with chronic pain often moved from provider to provider without a comprehensive recovery plan. Active adults and athletes struggled to find credible, medically grounded performance and recovery services in one place. People seeking to improve energy, longevity, body composition, mobility, or resilience were left sorting through disconnected offerings without a trusted framework to guide them.

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TRIDENT was created to solve that problem.

Meet The Team

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Kyle Dixon, MBA

Founder, Owner, & Executive Director

kyle@tridentplw.com

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Edmund "Jed" Siebel, DO, MS, ATC, CAQSM

Owner & Performance Medical Director

jed@tridentplw.com

Dr. Kevin Bernstein, MD. Trident - Performance, Lifestyle, Wellness, LLC. Lifestyle Medical Director. Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Kevin Bernstein, MD

Owner & Lifestyle Medical Director

kevin@tridentplw.com

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Christopher Sowers, PT, DPT, ATC, SCS

Owner & Wellness Medical Director

chris@tridentplw.com

Candace Hansen Gillingham, CHT, EMT-P. Trident - Performance, Lifestyle, Wellness, LLC. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Medical Director. Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Candace Hansen Gillingham, CHT, EMT-P

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Owner & HBOT Director & Safety Director

candace@tridentplw.com

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Cheryl Zonkowski, MS, RD, LDN, CSSD

Nutrition Director

Our Partners

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