Sports physical therapy treats injuries and movement problems in people who want to get back to a sport or an active life. It goes past pain relief and rebuilds strength, power, and control until the body can handle the real demands of the activity.

At Tri Star Strength x Rehab in Kingsport, Tennessee, every session is a full hour, one-on-one, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy who is also a certified strength coach and heavily equipped with sports science tech to obtain/track progress. We test with force plates, strength testing, and timing gates, so decisions come from numbers instead of a guess.

Here is how it usually goes. Insurance approves a set number of visits. The visits run out. Someone checks a box that says goals met, and you leave with a sheet of exercises.

That box often means something like how far your knee bends while you lie on a table. It does not mean your body can cut, land, sprint, lift, or throw.

So you go back to your sport, or your gym, or your life, and you hope.

Athletes who went back without passing objective testing had a 38.2% reinjury rate. Athletes who passed had 5.6%.

We find the root cause instead of chasing the spot that hurts.

LOWER BODY

• Low back and SI joint

• Hip labrum and hip impingement

• Patellar tendinopathy and knee pain

• ACL return to play

• Ankle sprains and foot pain

• Calf and Achilles injuries

• Post-operative rehab

UPPER BODY

• Shoulder impingement

• UCL and elbow pain in throwing athletes

• Tennis elbow

• Upper back and neck

• Post-operative shoulder rehab