1. Assess
50 minutes. What hurts, what sets it off, and what to train, modify and hold.
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.
Assess
Full history, physical testing, and movement screening. Not just what hurts, but why it keeps happening.
Treat
Hands-on treatment and short-term training changes, with the first loading work starting at visit one.
Rebuild
Progressive loading designed by a strength coach, well past easy rehab drills.
Return
Retest the original problem at the pace, distance, power, or volume that exposed it, then clear you to push.
Why rest isn't enough
Picture a bridge that cracks every time heavy traffic crosses it. Close it and the cracks settle. Reopen it to the same traffic and it cracks again, because it was never made stronger.
Rest is closing the bridge. Treatment that only manages pain is patching the cracks.
Progressive loading is the reinforcement. It builds the tissue back up, and current guidelines list graded loading as first-line care for common tendon problems.
Four parts of the method
50 minutes. What hurts, what sets it off, and what to train, modify and hold.
Hands-on treatment from the first visit, when it's safe.
Progressive strength work until it handles real training.
Pass a test that looks like your sport. Then full load.
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. I retest the movement, strength or training that set it off in the first place.
As you get better, the exercises get harder and your visits spread out. If progress stalls, we change the plan. On an agreed 30-day plan, if the measure we picked hasn't improved, your next 25-minute visit is on me.
We only move on once you've earned the next step.
Apply the method