For clinicians

Better outcomes for your athletes — and for the post-injection clients more of you are now seeing.

Everything here is free. Years of clinical teaching, from the Olympic Training Center to a San Diego practice floor, and what I’ve learned about loading tissue after regenerative procedures.

Listen to the podcast archive Treating a post-injection client?

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The topics clinicians ask me about most

Return to sport

Criteria, not calendars

How to decide an athlete is ready, and what to test before you say yes.

Barbell athletes

Rehab under the bar

Keeping lifters training while the injury settles, rather than stopping everything.

Movement

Assessment that changes the plan

SFMA and FMS in real clinics — what’s worth the time and what isn’t.

Regenerative

Loading after injections

Why the first two weeks matter so much, and the mistakes I see most.

Strength

Dosing strength work

Sets, reps and progressions that hold up for athletes and for 60-year-olds.

Clinical reasoning

When the plan isn’t working

How I review a stalled case with my own staff.

Dr. Chris Garcia with University of St. Augustine physical therapy students

Still teaching

Time with the next generation of PTs

I still say yes to teaching. Most recently that meant a talk for Doctor of Physical Therapy students at the University of St. Augustine in San Marcos.

Invite me to speak to your program

Treating a post-injection client?

“Is it normal that my PT had me push a 200-pound sled two weeks after my injections?”

A client sent me that message after her first session back. Her therapist wasn’t careless. Most physical therapists simply never see enough post-injection clients to build the instinct for it — so they fall back on standard post-op timelines, which don’t fit.

If one of your clients has had injections, point them to my team. We build the plan around the procedure they already had, week by week.

Where to start

  • Listen: EP155, Stem Cell Physical Therapy — the most-played thing I’ve published on stem cell rehab
  • Read: the free client report, so you know what your client has been told
  • Refer: send your client to Stem Cell Recovery Experts

Refer a client to SCRE See the client report

The clinician podcast

The Sports Physical Therapy Academy Podcast

Practical, easy-to-use clinical content for physical therapists who want to specialize in sports rehab, injury prevention and athletic performance. 179 episodes and over 54,000 downloads. Recording has finished, and every episode stays free to listen to.

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