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Post-surgical rehab

We bridge the gap between cleared by your surgeon and actually ready to train.

There is a gap between the last physical therapy visit and being ready to play, and it is where a lot of second injuries happen. The paperwork says cleared. The tissue says not yet, and the difference is load tolerance nobody has tested.

c-08 / in your words

Does the gap sound familiar?

  • 01Formal physical therapy ended and you still do not trust the limb
  • 02You were discharged on a calendar rather than on criteria
  • 03The other side is visibly bigger or steadier
  • 04You want to go back to your sport and nobody has told you how

c-08 / how it is worked

The return-to-sport protocol

  1. phase 01 / read the protocol

    Your surgeon's plan is the boundary, not our opinion

    We require written clearance and we work strictly inside the protocol we are given. Anything outside it goes back to the surgeon rather than around them, and progress notes go back to their office as we go.

  2. phase 02 / test side to side

    Measure the limb against the other one

    Strength, control, and load tolerance compared left to right against the criteria that decide the next milestone. Being discharged on a calendar rather than on criteria is the most common reason the limb still feels untrustworthy.

  3. phase 03 / clear the criteria

    Close the gap between cleared and ready

    The milestones open on numbers, not on weeks. Weekly to start and tapering as they are met. Any milestone that is the surgeon's to sign off, we wait for, and we tell you which ones those are at the first visit.

what we test first

We read your surgeon's protocol first and work strictly inside it. Then side-to-side strength and control testing against the criteria that decide the next milestone.

how many visits

Weekly to start, tapering as the milestones are met. Progress notes go back to your surgeon, and any milestone that is theirs to sign off, we wait for.

when this is not ours

We require written surgical clearance before starting. Anything outside the protocol we were given goes back to the surgeon rather than around them.

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