Written by Dr. Josh Funk, DPT Little League shoulder is growth-plate irritation at the top of the upper arm bone, caused by the repetitive rotational stress of overhead throwing, and it’s the one growth-plate injury in young athletes where the answer isn’t to manage load and keep going. Current best practice is an actual break…

What Walking Into R2P Looks Like on Day One Squat racks. Sleds. Kettlebells. Medicine balls. When Dr. Andrew Bucknor, DPT, COMT, CSCS walked into his first Rehab 2 Perform facility, he saw equipment he’d never expected to find in a physical therapy clinic. It wasn’t what he associated with rehab. It looked like a performance…

Written by Dr. Josh Funk, DPT Sever’s disease, also called calcaneal apophysitis, is a self-limiting growth-plate irritation at the back of your child’s heel, and the encouraging part is the same as it is for other growth-plate injuries: your child usually doesn’t have to sit the season out. The old advice was rest completely until…

Written by Dr. Josh Funk, DPT Osgood-Schlatter disease is a self-limiting growth-plate irritation just below the kneecap, and here’s the part that matters most: your child usually does not have to wait it out on the sidelines. The old advice was rest until the pain stops, which could mean months or longer. Current best practice…

Written by Dr. Josh Funk, DPT If your young athlete has shoulder, knee, or heel pain, there’s a good chance it’s one of three common overuse injuries: Little League shoulder, Osgood-Schlatter, or Sever’s. They show up in different places but share one root cause, a growing skeleton under repetitive load. Each is an irritation of…

Written by Dr. Josh Funk, DPT It depends, and that’s the honest answer worth trusting. Knee pain could be a variety of different conditions, and it isn’t typically the result of one cause. The three most common culprits in runners, runner’s knee, patellar tendinopathy, and IT band syndrome, sit in different places and behave differently….

Written by Dr. Josh Funk, DPT For most shoulder pain, and many rotator cuff problems, yes. Physical therapy is the first-line treatment for the majority of shoulder issues, and for a lot of them, conservative care produces results comparable to surgery. Surgery is reserved for specific cases, not the default. I know this one personally….

For most people, returning to sport after ACL reconstruction takes 9 to 12 months. That’s the honest range. But the date is the least useful part of the answer. Recovery is governed by meeting objective criteria, not by hitting a number on the calendar, and a knee can feel fine while still being measurably weaker…

Training and competition put repetitive stress on the same structures over and over. The hip, knee, and ankle absorb most of it, which is exactly why they are usually the first areas to get chronically tight. The physical therapy team at Rehab 2 Perform put together the stretching routine above to address all three, and…

For the large majority of low back pain, yes. Most low back pain is non-specific, which means it isn’t caused by something that needs a surgeon, and clinical guidelines point to active, conservative care like physical therapy as the first move, not surgery. The principle we treat by is simple: Modify is better than Rest….