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10/09/2026

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲, 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 “w𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿.”

🎃 By October, athletes have already accumulated weeks of practices, games, lifting, travel, and recovery demands. So when speed, explosiveness, or confidence starts to fade late in competition, we want to understand what is actually changing.

𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥?

𝘖𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯?

𝘐𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦?

𝘐𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩?

𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬?

🔎 Those are very different problems—and they require very different solutions.

❗This is where sports physical therapy and performance assessment become valuable. At Fick PT & Performance, we look at the full picture instead of automatically adding more conditioning or more training.

⚠️ Sometimes an athlete needs more capacity. Sometimes they need better recovery. Sometimes strength or power has dropped off. And sometimes the issue is a pain or movement limitation that only becomes obvious when the game reaches its highest demands.

𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁.

📣 It is feedback.

🌟 And the goal is to understand what that feedback is telling us before simply asking the athlete to do more.

👉 If your speed, power, or movement starts to change as competition goes on, schedule a sports physical therapy assessment with Fick PT & Performance and let’s figure out what is actually limiting you.

📱 (720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

10/08/2026

📊 You tested great in August. Would your body give us the same answers today?

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴.

🔎 A preseason baseline is useful because it gives us a picture of how an athlete was producing force, absorbing force, and moving before weeks of practices and competition began.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯.

⚠️ Strength can shift. Power can drop. One side may start doing more work than the other. An athlete may still feel “fine” while their body is quietly adapting to accumulated workload, soreness, or an old injury.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.

📍At Fick PT & Performance, we use VALD ForceDecks to look at things like jump performance, force production, force absorption, and side-to-side differences. The goal is not to collect data for the sake of having numbers.

🛑 It is to compare where the athlete is now to where they were earlier in the season and ask whether anything meaningful has changed.

📈 Sometimes the data confirms that an athlete is maintaining the qualities we want.

📉 Other times, it gives us a reason to adjust strength work, recovery, workload, or treatment before those changes begin affecting performance.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻.

𝘐𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘴.

👉 If you want to know how your body is responding after weeks of training and competition, schedule a sports physical therapy assessment or performance evaluation with Fick PT & Performance.

📱 (720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

10/06/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘂𝗽, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

You react.

You plant.

You cut.

You land.

You absorb contact.

You make the next play.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩.

⚠️ Under pressure, athletes tend to fall back on the movement patterns, strength, and habits they have built over time. The goal of training and sports physical therapy is not simply to help an athlete perform a movement correctly when everything is controlled.

👉 It is to make that movement reliable enough that it still shows up when the environment becomes fast, unpredictable, and competitive.

🛑 This is one reason we care about repetition, progressive loading, strength, movement quality, and sport-specific exposure. We are not only trying to improve what an athlete can do in the clinic.

❗We are trying to build qualities they can trust when they no longer have time to think about them.

👉 An athlete should not have to remind themselves how to control their knee during a cut or how to load one leg during a landing in the middle of competition.

𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴.

📍At Fick PT & Performance, we want the work athletes do in rehab and training to transfer beyond the clinic—into the moments when speed increases, decisions happen quickly, and performance matters most.

👉 If you are returning from an injury or preparing for competition, sports physical therapy can help make sure the movement patterns you are building are ready to show up when your sport demands them.

📱 (720) 480-2866
🌐 www.ficktpandperformance.com

10/02/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆.

💭 Think about everything your body has been through since preseason.

👉 Weeks of practices. Games. Lifting. Sprinting. Travel. School. Early mornings. Late nights. Soreness that comes and goes. Maybe an ankle you’ve been managing or a knee that feels a little different after games than it did in August.

𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘱.

⚠️ By this point in the season, we’re not only interested in where an athlete started. We want to know how their body has responded to everything that has happened since.

❓Is strength holding up? Are they still moving with the same control? Are they recovering between competitions? Does something begin to change as fatigue builds? Is an old injury quietly becoming more noticeable as the workload accumulates?

𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴.

🔎 They give us context.

🌟 An athlete can enter a season feeling strong and prepared and still need something different two months later. Maybe the priority shifts toward recovery. Maybe strength needs to be maintained. Maybe recurring soreness deserves a closer look. Or maybe everything is holding up exactly the way we hoped.

❗That’s why in-season sports physical therapy shouldn’t rely on how an athlete looked in August. We need to make decisions based on the athlete standing in front of us today.

🛑 Because the deeper you get into your season, the more important it becomes to understand what is actually holding up when it counts.

👉 If your body feels different now than it did at the beginning of your season, schedule a sports physical therapy assessment with Fick PT & Performance. Let’s figure out what has changed and what you need to keep performing through the rest of your season.

📱(720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

10/01/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵.

✔️ Maybe you’ve noticed that soreness is lasting longer than it did early in the season.

✔️ Maybe an old injury only shows up after games.

✔️ Maybe your body feels completely different on Friday than it does on Monday.

✔️ Maybe you’ve learned that you recover well from certain workloads but struggle when practices, lifting, travel, and competition start stacking up.

Or maybe you feel better than you expected and your body is handling the season exactly the way you hoped it would.

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

⚠️ Because a season isn’t only something you get through. It constantly gives you feedback about how your body is moving, recovering, adapting, and responding to the demands of your sport.

🌟 At Fick PT & Performance, sports physical therapy is about helping athletes make sense of that information.

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆.

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱, 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱.

❗The important part is knowing what your body is telling you—and responding before the decision gets made for you.

👉 A successful season doesn’t mean your body never feels sore, tired, or challenged.

𝘐𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴.

👉 If this season has revealed pain, limitations, recurring soreness, or changes in performance that you haven’t addressed yet, schedule a sports physical therapy assessment with Fick PT & Performance and let’s figure out what comes next.

📱 (720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

09/29/2026

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆.

❗When an athlete is dealing with pain or recurring soreness, the instinct is often to back off completely.

👍 And sometimes that is exactly what the body needs.

⚠️ But other times, the bigger issue is that the athlete simply isn’t prepared for the amount of force, speed, or repetition their sport is asking them to tolerate.

𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

👉 We may need to progressively add strength, controlled loading, sprint exposure, change-of-direction work, or sport-specific movement so the body can better handle the demands that keep bringing the symptoms back.

💫 That’s one of the biggest decisions we make in sports physical therapy: knowing when to protect an athlete and when to begin asking more of them.

🛑 Because the goal isn’t to avoid stress.

✅ It’s to build a body that can tolerate the right amount of stress at the right time.

👉 At Fick PT & Performance, we look at how the athlete is moving, what their sport requires, how symptoms respond to load, and what qualities still need to be rebuilt before deciding what comes next.

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀.

𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲.

👉 If you keep resting, feeling better, and then dealing with the same issue once training ramps back up, schedule a sports physical therapy assessment with Fick PT & Performance. Let’s figure out whether your body needs protection—or better preparation.

📱 (720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

09/28/2026

🚨 WE’RE HIRING A SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPIST 🚨

𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿𝙔 𝙏𝙊 𝙋𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙀 𝙋𝙏 𝘿𝙄𝙁𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙇𝙔?

If you’re a Physical Therapist who wants more time with patients, more clinical autonomy, and the opportunity to work with athletes at a higher level, we want to meet you.

Fick PT & Performance is growing, and we’re looking for an exceptional Sports Physical Therapist to join our team in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

Why Fick PT & Performance?

✅ One-on-one patient care
✅ Sports & orthopedic rehabilitation
✅ Return-to-sport and performance training
✅ Work with motivated athletes and active adults
✅ Clinical autonomy
✅ Advanced rehab & performance technology
✅ Collaborative, growth-focused team
✅ An environment built around outcomes—not volume

Our clinicians work with youth, high school, collegiate, professional, masters, and recreational athletes and have access to technology including VALD testing, Keiser Resistance Training, AlterG Treadmill, BFR, Focused and Radial shockwave, EMTT, PMST, Class IV deep tissue laser, HBOT, Red Light Therapy, and more.

We’re looking for a PT who is passionate about sports rehab, committed to becoming an exceptional clinician, and ready to move beyond the traditional high-volume PT model.

You became a PT to help people get back to doing what they love—not to race from patient to patient.

Be a rebel and come practice PT differently!

📍 Highlands Ranch, Colorado
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09/25/2026

⚠️ Parents, “I’m fine” isn’t always the whole story.

❗Athletes often minimize what they’re feeling because they don’t want to miss practice, lose playing time, or feel like they’re falling behind. That doesn’t mean they’re hiding something serious—it just means parents may need to pay attention to more than the words.

🔎 Watch how your athlete moves after games and practices. Are they suddenly limping, favoring one side, moving more slowly on stairs, or repeatedly stretching and icing the same area? Do they hesitate during movements that used to look natural? Are they recovering normally between sessions, or do they seem increasingly sore and fatigued as the week goes on?

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗼.

🛑 An athlete may say they feel fine while avoiding full-speed cuts, protecting a previously injured leg, or hesitating before contact. Those subtle changes can be signs that their body—or their confidence in it—is not handling the demands of the season the way it normally does.

👉 The goal isn’t to analyze every ache or assume every sore muscle is an injury. Some soreness is part of sport.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻.

🏃 When the same pain keeps returning, movement starts changing, recovery is getting harder, or an old injury seems to be affecting how your athlete competes, that is useful information worth paying attention to.

🌟 Sports physical therapy can help determine whether your athlete is simply adapting to the season or whether something needs to be addressed before it begins costing them playing time.

👉 If you’ve noticed a change in how your athlete is moving, recovering, or trusting their body, schedule a sports physical therapy assessment with Fick PT & Performance. Sometimes catching the pattern early is the best way to keep the season moving forward.

📱 (720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

09/24/2026

❗The right plan for an athlete last week may not be the right plan this week.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴.

👉 One week, an athlete may need more strength work because they are handling practice well and have room to build capacity. The next week, they may have two games, less recovery time, and soreness that is starting to accumulate. Suddenly, the priority shifts.

⚠️ Instead of adding more, we may pull back on lifting, increase recovery, modify part of practice, or focus treatment on whatever is limiting them most in that moment.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯-𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.

📍 At Fick PT & Performance, we do not believe athletes should be forced into the exact same plan week after week when their workload, symptoms, recovery, and competition schedule are constantly changing.

𝗪𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝘄.

❓Are they recovering between sessions? Is pain changing? Are they still moving well under fatigue? Has their game schedule increased? Do they need more capacity, or do they need more recovery?

𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁.

✔️ Sometimes progress means adding more.

✔️ Sometimes progress means doing less for a few days so the athlete can adapt and keep moving forward.

❗The plan should respond to the athlete—not force the athlete to fit the plan.

👉 If your body is feeling different from one week to the next, your plan may need to change too. Schedule a sports physical therapy assessment with Fick PT & Performance and let’s make sure your treatment, training, and recovery still match the demands of your season.

📱(720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

09/22/2026

❓You rested. It felt better. You went back to your sport…and the pain came right back.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁.

👉 Rest can be exactly what an irritated area needs in the short term. Reducing activity can settle symptoms and give the body a break from whatever was aggravating it. But if the same problem returns as soon as running, lifting, practice, or competition resumes, simply taking more time off may not answer the bigger question:

❗Why can your body feel good at rest but struggle when the demands return?

🤝 That's where the conversation changes.

⚠️ Instead of only asking how to make the pain go away, we start looking at what the athlete may still be missing. Has strength dropped? Is mobility limiting how force is distributed? Is an old injury changing movement? Did training volume increase faster than the body was prepared for? Does the athlete simply need a more gradual progression back to higher loads?

🌟 This is an important part of sports physical therapy because returning to sport requires more than the absence of symptoms. The body also has to rebuild the capacity to tolerate sprinting, cutting, jumping, lifting, contact, and repeated effort without falling back into the same pattern.

💯 Sometimes that means treatment. Sometimes it means strength, progressive loading, movement work, or adjusting how quickly an athlete returns to full participation. Often, it is a combination.

🛑 Rest can calm a problem down. It doesn't always prepare the body for what caused the problem in the first place.

📍 At Fick PT & Performance, our goal is to figure out what still needs to be restored so you're not stuck in the cycle of rest → feel better → return → hurt again.

👉 If you've already tried resting and the same pain keeps returning when you get back to your sport, schedule a sports physical therapy assessment. Let's figure out what your body needs to tolerate the demands of your season—not just what makes it feel better when you're doing less.

📱(720) 480-2866
🌐 www.fickptandperformance.com

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