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.

Dr. Chris Garcia with Doctor of Physical Therapy students
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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.

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.

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.

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Dr. Chris Garcia teaching DPT students
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
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
Stem Cell Recovery Experts
Send your client to my team
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Have a client who just had injections?

Point them to my team. We build the plan around the procedure they already had, week by week.