Find out what's wrong
I check the injury, how you move, and what kind of load brings the pain on.
What you can trust
The work starts with the injury and ends with the load your sport demands. Each step has to earn the next one.
Start
Test the painful area, the movements around it, and the load that brings symptoms on.
Settle it
Use hands-on care and short-term training changes to get the injury moving in the right direction.
Build
Progress strength, movement, and tolerance beyond easy rehab drills.
Test
Build toward the pace, hills, distance, power, or volume that exposed the injury.
Return
Retest the original problem and return with a plan for the next block of training.
Four parts of the method
I check the injury, how you move, and what kind of load brings the pain on.
Hands-on treatment starts at your first visit, if it's safe to start that day. How you respond tells me a lot about the plan.
Your exercises move well past the easy stuff, until the sore area can handle real work.
The last tests look like what you actually need to do. Run, ride, swim, lift, or race.
Your rehab should get hard enough to get you ready for training.
Treatment opens the door. Loading gets you through it.
How progress is judged
Pain is only part of it. What your body can actually do matters just as much, so I go back and test the movement, the strength, or the training that set the problem off in the first place.
As you get better, the exercises get harder and your visits spread further apart. If you stop making progress, we change the plan. And if you need a scan or a different kind of care, I'll tell you straight.
We only move on once you've earned the next step.
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