Sports rehab is injury care for athletes: diagnosis, treatment, and a tested return to play. It is for the torn, the sprained, and the pulled, from Friday night football to weekend 5Ks. At Physio+ you are cleared by measured criteria, not by the calendar, so the injury does not come back.
Sports rehab at Physio+ covers the full arc: acute injury evaluation, hands on treatment, progressive loading, and return to play testing. We treat sprains, muscle pulls, tendon pain, post op athletes, and the stubborn injuries that come back every season.
Who it is for: competitive athletes, youth athletes, and weekend warriors. If you tore something, pulled something, or landed wrong, this page is your front door. If you are healthy and want to get faster or stronger, that is a different service: Sport Performance is our performance programming arm. Sports rehab fixes injuries; sport performance builds output. Keeping those separate gets you the right plan.
Both clinics sit inside working training facilities, so your rehab happens on a gym floor with racks, turf, and open space, not in a carpeted room with a recumbent bike.
This is East Texas, so we plan around the actual calendar: two a days in August, district play in October, baseball and track in spring, and the FRESH 15 in March for Tyler runners. Your plan is written against those dates from visit one.
Plan on about 60 minutes, one on one with a doctor of physical therapy. Bring the shoes you compete in.
What happened, what position you play, what the season calendar looks like, and what "back" actually means for your sport.
Strength, range, swelling, and single leg capacity, measured and written down. These numbers become your return to play targets.
What is injured, what the evidence says about healing time, and whether you need imaging or a physician. Most athletes need neither.
Hands on work, swelling control, and the first loading exercises before you leave. Waiting a week to "see how it feels" is how 2 week injuries become 8 week injuries.
Phases, targets, and test dates mapped against your schedule, so you and your coach both know where you stand.
The short version is below. Each condition has its own full guide with the deep education.
Runner's knee, IT band, shin splints: keep running while we fix the cause instead of resting and relapsing.
Read the guide PillarACL, meniscus, and the knee that gives out or that you no longer trust when you cut and land.
Read the guide PillarOverhead athletes, throwers, and lifters with a shoulder that pinches at the top of the rep.
Read the guide PillarRolled ankles that keep rolling, and the sprain from last season that still is not right.
Read the guide PillarHamstring pulls, groin strains, and hip pain that flares with sprinting or squatting.
Read the guide MoreElbow, back, neck, and the injuries that do not fit a tidy category. See all conditions we treat.
See all conditionsA date on a calendar does not tell you a hamstring is ready. Testing does. Before we clear you, you hit objective targets: strength within 90 percent of the uninjured side, hop and change of direction testing without compensation, and sport specific conditioning at game intensity. About 1 in 3 hamstring pulls recurs within a year, and most of those are athletes who returned on time instead of on numbers.
The head matters as much as the tissue. Over half of athletes who never make it back to sport cite fear, not the injury itself. If you are cleared but still do not trust the knee, that is not a character flaw; it is an untrained variable. We rebuild trust the same way we rebuild strength: measured exposure, one level at a time, with the numbers to prove each level is safe.
Parents get the same numbers. For youth athletes we walk parents and coaches through the test results: what was measured, where the targets sit, and what the risk looks like if the athlete returns early. The return decision gets made with data on the table instead of pressure from the sideline.
Cameron Berry, PT, DPT, CSCS is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, the same certification held by collegiate strength coaches. That combination means your rehab does not stop at "pain free"; it runs all the way to barbell, track, and field speeds. Tim Hu, PT, DPT, OCS, CDN adds orthopedic residency training and deep experience with running and golf athletes.
The CSCS piece matters more than it sounds. Rehab that ends at jogging pace is why so many athletes reinjure in the first month back. The last phase here is programmed like strength coaching: bar speed, sprint mechanics, jump landings, and conditioning at loads that match competition, on a floor built for it.
Access matters when a season clock is running. The average wait for an orthopedic consult runs 12 to 17 days; under Texas direct access (HB 4099) you can start up to 30 days of PT care without a referral, and most athletes are on our schedule within 2 to 3 days. Visits are one on one for a full hour at 2 clinics: 140 E Eagle Spirit Dr, Lindale, TX 75771 inside Fusion Athletic Club, and 6421 South Broadway Avenue, Suite 600, Tyler, TX 75703 inside B-Fit Tyler. Call or text 903.492.5215 or email hello@physioplustx.com.
No. Texas allows up to 30 days of care without a referral under HB 4099. Most athletes are evaluated within 2 to 3 days of calling. Details on our direct access page.
The evaluation runs about 60 minutes. Follow ups run 45 to 60 minutes, one on one with your doctor of physical therapy.
Training clothes and the shoes you compete in. Bring cleats or lifting shoes if your sport uses them; testing in your real footwear matters.
Depends on the tissue and the grade. A grade 1 hamstring pull might need 4 to 6 visits. An ACL reconstruction runs 6 to 9 months. You get an honest range at the evaluation.
In most cases yes. We modify around the injury instead of shutting you down. Total rest usually trades one problem for two.
We can compress some phases with higher visit frequency, but tissue healing has a floor. You get the honest timeline on day one, not the one you were hoping for.
We are in network with most major plans. Plan details, self pay rates, and HSA and FSA options are on our insurance page.
60 minutes with a doctor of physical therapy. You leave with a diagnosis, a timeline, and the first 2 weeks of your plan. Your season is not going to wait; neither should the evaluation.
Performance programming for healthy athletes. Where you graduate to once rehab is done.
See the service ServiceMovement and gait analysis that finds the mechanical cause behind repeat injuries.
See the service ServiceTrigger point release for the tight tissue that keeps limiting your training week.
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