athELITE Performance Therapy

athELITE Performance Therapy We are a sports medicine clinic whose focus is to return our patients to the their sport better than before.

athELITE Performance Therapy is a rehabilitation clinic unlike many others. athELITE Performance Therapy was born out of a desire to bring the highest quality of physical therapy to our patients in an ever changing world of insurance reimbursement. Over the years insurance reimbursements for physical therapy has steadily declined, while costs to deliver physical therapy and cost of living have inc

reased. In order to increase revenue and maintain profit margins, traditional cookie-cutter physical therapy clinics have simply increased their volume to offset annual decreases in reimbursement. This means that because they are getting paid less to deliver care, they simply stack patients up on top of each other and some therapists end up seeing 20-30 patients a day. This means that while you may be in the clinic for an hour or even longer, you may only get 10-15 minutes of face time with your therapist. 10-15 minutes is not nearly enough to diagnose and treat your condition thoroughly. Many times patients do not receive the outcomes that are possible and quite frankly, the outcomes they deserve. This is the reason why we only see patients on a 1-to-1 basis for a full hour so that our Doctors can adequately assess and treat their condition. Our focus is to help facilitate the return our patients to the activities they love without pain or discomfort. At athELITE Performance Therapy, our mission is to re-teach our patients how to move and manipulate their bodies in a manner that minimizes stress and the chance of injury. Through education and empowerment, we give our patient's the tools to understand and manage their pain throughout their lifetime.

A lot of runners aren’t being held back by their injury.They’re being held back by outdated advice about what they’re su...
08/27/2026

A lot of runners aren’t being held back by their injury.

They’re being held back by outdated advice about what they’re supposed to do when something hurts.

“Stop running until it’s completely gone.”

“Just rest for a few weeks.”

“Don’t lift. You’ll make it worse.”

Then 3–4 weeks later you try running again… and somehow the exact same knee, hip, Achilles or back pain comes right back.

Because rest may calm symptoms down, but it doesn’t automatically build a body that can tolerate running again.

Good rehab should help you keep doing as much as you safely can while progressively rebuilding your capacity to run, lift, sprint and train.

Sometimes that means modifying mileage.

Sometimes that means temporarily changing intensity.

Sometimes that means getting stronger.

But the goal shouldn’t be to make your life smaller until nothing hurts.

The goal is to build your body back up until it can handle the life and training you actually want to do.

Runners: save this one for the next time someone tells you to “just rest.” 🏃‍♂️

Your schedule is busy. Your goals are big. Your rehab shouldn’t require you to rearrange your entire life around appoint...
08/26/2026

Your schedule is busy.
Your goals are big.
Your rehab shouldn’t require you to rearrange your entire life around appointments to actually work.

These are CEOs, physicians, engineers, bankers, and competitive athletes who needed to get back to running, lifting, sports, work, travel and LIFE and they did it with online rehab.

Because virtual PT doesn’t mean less hands-on.

It means your rehab actually gets to live where your life happens.

We can see how you move, analyze your lifts and running, adjust your program as you progress, troubleshoot flare-ups when they actually happen, and build a plan around the things you need your body to be capable of doing.

You don’t need to be in the same room as your PT to get great rehab.

You need the right plan, the right progression, and someone paying attention to the details.

And these texts are exactly why I’ll die on that hill 👏🏼

You aren’t “broken.”You’re just under-prepared for the life you want to lead 📉😤It’s a story I see every single week: A h...
08/17/2026

You aren’t “broken.”

You’re just under-prepared for the life you want to lead 📉😤

It’s a story I see every single week: A high-level executive or a former athlete who spent their 20s moving with total freedom. You played basketball three times a week, you skied every winter, and you never thought twice about your knees or your back.

Then life happened 💼👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

The career took off. The kids arrived. The travel increased.

Gradually, the training sessions were replaced by meetings and the recovery time was replaced by emails.

You didn’t “get old”, you just transitioned into a lifestyle that is physically sedentary but mentally high-stakes.

The problem arises when you try to call on that “old athlete” for a weekend game or a ski trip. When the demand of the activity far exceeds your current capacity, your body sends a pain signal. Not because it’s damaged, but because it senses danger and its trying to protect you.

Stop shrinking your life to fit your pain 🛑

At athELITE, we don’t just treat the “soreness.” We build the foundation back up so that your body can actually handle the life you’ve worked so hard to build.

Ready to bridge the gap?

DM to learn more about our Elite Performance Program 🤝

The biggest lie in rehab? “I need someone to fix me.” Most people treat physical therapy like a car repair shop. They dr...
07/31/2026

The biggest lie in rehab? “I need someone to fix me.”

Most people treat physical therapy like a car repair shop. They drop their body off for 60 minutes, expect a “tune-up” from a therapist’s hands, and then go back to their life.

But here is the hard truth: You are not a car. 🛠️🛑

You are a biological system that adapts to stress, not a machine that needs a mechanic. While manual therapy (massage, adjustments, scraping) is a great side dish, it is NOT the main course. It can open a temporary “window” of relief, but it cannot build the strength, stability, or tissue capacity you need to return to the court, field or the boardroom.

If your rehab only happens during the 60 minutes you’re in a clinic, you are ignoring the 10,000+ other minutes in your week. That is where the real results happen ⏳📈

Your body doesn’t care if you’re in a fancy clinic or your home gym, it only responds to progressive overload.

The goal of a high-level performance program isn’t to keep you dependent on a therapist for a weekly “fix.” It’s to give you the blueprint, the progression, and the autonomy to become your own best advocate.

Stop settling for temporary relief. Start building permanent capacity. 🤝

Swipe through to see why the “hands-on” model is failing you. 📲

From chronic shin pain to 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents. 🏃‍♂️🌍A runner came to us dealing with constant shin pai...
07/25/2026

From chronic shin pain to 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents. 🏃‍♂️🌍

A runner came to us dealing with constant shin pain. Every time he tried to bump up his weekly mileage, his shins would flare up and force him to stop. He was frustrated, stuck, and didn’t know how to move forward.

When we evaluated him, we realized something important: He wasn’t weak because he was injured. He was injured because he was weak; he wasn’t strong enough for the volume he was doing.

Plus, he was ramping up his mileage way too fast. His body just wasn’t ready.

Here’s what we did:

Step 1: We actually dialed back his running volume. I know, counterintuitive. But we needed to let things calm down.

Step 2: We shifted the focus to the weight room. Heavy lower body work, especially single leg work: squats, deadlifts, calf raises. We built a solid foundation.

Step 3: Once that baseline strength was there, we slowly and progressively layered his running volume back in. No sudden spikes.

The result? His body could finally handle the high-intensity, high-volume work he wanted to do. He went on to complete the Great World Race: seven marathons, seven days, seven continents 🔥

The lesson: If your mileage is going up and things are starting to hurt, don’t just push through it.

Let’s look at your strength, your capacity and your programming.

Ready to get back to running strong? DM me “RUN” to learn more 🏃‍♂️

In honor of the World Cup, here are some red cards when it comes online physical therapy and physical therapy in general...
07/17/2026

In honor of the World Cup, here are some red cards when it comes online physical therapy and physical therapy in general 🚩

07/10/2026

Manual therapy and massage aren’t doing what you think they are 😱

Most people think manual therapy, massage, scraping, etc is “breaking up scar tissue” or “lengthening” their muscles.

The reality? Your fascia and connective tissue are so strong that it would take an unsafe amount of force to actually “deform” them (actual metric tons of force 😳).

So why do you feel better after these interventions? You’re hacking your nervous system.

Manual therapy is like a “reset button” for your brain. It uses touch to “close the gate” on pain signals, providing a temporary window of relief.

But here’s the catch: That window is temporary. If you don’t use that relief to actually strengthen the tissue, the pain cycle will just repeat.

Manual therapy opens the door 🚪

Strength training walks you through it 🚶🏽

(Check the comments for the full scientific breakdown and citations! 🔬👇)

07/09/2026

The most dangerous part of your MRI isn’t the image, it’s the vocabulary 📑🛑

When you read words like “degenerative,” “tear,” or “loss” on a medical report, your brain immediately categorizes your knee as “damaged goods.”

This is the essence of V.O.M.I.T. (Victim of Medical Imaging Technology).

It’s a phenomenon where the psychological weight of a scan leads to kinesiophobia, an actual fear of movement, which ironically makes your recovery slower and your pain feel more intense.

The data tells a much more optimistic story:
A landmark systematic review (Culvenor et al.) found that in adults over 40 with zero knee pain:

• 19-43% had meniscus tears.
• Up to 43% had signs of osteoarthritis.
• Nearly 97% of all asymptomatic knees showed at least one “abnormality.”

If these findings were a direct sentence to a life of pain, we wouldn’t have 50-year-old marathoners or 40-year-old pro athletes competing at the highest level.

The Reality:
Your MRI is a snapshot of your anatomy, not a blueprint of your potential. These findings are often just “normal variations” of a knee that has been used, trained, and lived in.

The “V.O.M.I.T.” effect happens when we treat the picture instead of the person.

At athELITE, we prioritize Function over Film. We look at how you move, how you load, and how you recover, because that is what actually determines your return to the court or the gym.

Stop letting a radiology report dictate your activity level.

If you’re ready to build a knee that’s stronger than your scan, click the link in our bio to apply for coaching. 🤝

If your pain keeps coming back every time you return to sport, this is why 👇🏽I spent the first 8 years of my career doin...
07/07/2026

If your pain keeps coming back every time you return to sport, this is why 👇🏽

I spent the first 8 years of my career doing manual therapy. Massages, scraping, mobilizations…. all of it. And I was good at it. But I eventually had to be honest with myself: it wasn’t getting athletes better long-term.

Manual therapy is a neurological hack. It temporarily turns down the pain dial in your brain and that’s mainly what I used it for. But it does nothing to change the physical resilience of your tissues.

A 2025 systematic review confirmed it, manual therapy has no significant long-term benefit over exercise. [1]

Sports are high-load. If your rehab is low-load, you’re going to get hurt again. It’s that simple.

Here’s what actually works long-term: heavy, progressive strength training.

Lifting triggers something called Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia, your body’s own built-in pain relief system. It activates your endogenous opioid and endocannabinoid pathways and creates a lasting reduction in pain sensitivity. Not temporary. Trained. [2]

A 2024 meta-analysis of 1,700+ patients confirmed that resistance training produces significant, lasting improvements in pain, strength, and function. [3]

Bands and table exercises don’t cut it. They don’t produce enough stimulus to build real tissue capacity. If you want to return to sport and stay there, you have to load the tissue progressively and build the capacity to handle what sport actually demands.

Pain returns when load exceeds capacity.

The only real fix is to raise the tissue capacity 🤷‍♂️

📚 References in comments.

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