Built Back
Stronger
Modification over restriction
Physical therapy and strength coaching for people who refuse to sit still. We don't hand you a rest plan and hope it works. We find what your body can handle today, then build it up until you stop saying no to the things you want to do.
Dr. Steven Dobson, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS. Board-certified orthopedic specialist, strength coach, and lifter who has trained through his own injuries.
A full hour finding what's actually driving it, not just poking where it hurts.
We modify the lifts and the miles instead of deleting them from your week.
Load goes up as you do, until your body handles more than it did before this started.
You Got Told To Rest.
It Didn't Fix It.
You dropped the squat. You stopped the trail runs. The pain quieted down, so it looked like progress. Then you tried to go back and it was right there waiting for you.
Nothing got stronger while you waited. That's the part nobody told you. Rest takes the load off the angry tissue, but it also takes the load off everything holding you together. You come back weaker than you left.
So you start working around it. You skip the deadlift, you take the shorter loop, you think twice before picking up your kid or loading the truck. Little by little you've started treating yourself as fragile.
That's the thing we're here to take back.
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Fifteen minutes with the therapist and thirty with a tech and a sheet of bands
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"Stop lifting for six weeks and see how it feels"
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A printout of clamshells that has nothing to do with your actual sport
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Getting handed off to a different provider every visit
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Being discharged the second the pain drops, before you're actually strong
Your Body Is More
Capable Than You've Been Told
The goal was never just to make the pain quiet down. The goal is a body that handles whatever you ask of it, so you stop planning your week around what might flare up.
- ✓ A real assessment. We find the driver, not just the sore spot.
- ✓ Hands-on work to open the door, loading to walk through it.
- ✓ Rehab that speaks barbell, trail, and desk job, because that's your life.
- ✓ An exit plan, not a subscription. You leave knowing how to keep it gone.
Ever since my back surgery, I struggled to load my squat and deadlift. Steven helped me adjust my form and my load. Now I am stronger than I've ever been.
Find Your Starting Point
Hurt right now, or just tired of getting hurt. There's a lane for both.
Something Hurts
Low back, knee, shoulder, or the thing you've been ignoring for eight months. We assess it properly, treat it, and load you back to full capacity.
You Want To Train
Programming built around your history so you get stronger without breaking down again. Barbell sport or big days outside, the plan fits what you actually do.
You're Not In Bend
The assessment, the coaching, and the program all work over video. Plenty of clients have never set foot in the clinic and still got their training back.
From Sidelined To Strong
Four phases. You always know which one you're in and what has to happen to move to the next.
Calm It Down
Hands-on work and smart load management to take the edge off, while you keep moving. We find what you can still do and we keep doing it.
Rebuild The Base
Now we load the tissue that got weak while you were protecting it. Slow, controlled, progressive. This is the part most people skip and why it keeps coming back.
Load It Heavy
Back under the bar, back on the trail, back to the demands of your real life. We rebuild the lifts you stopped doing, at the weights you used to use.
Bulletproof It
You leave with a program and the judgment to run it. You know what a flare-up means, what to adjust, and how to keep building without me.
Dr. Steven Dobson
PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS
Doctor of Physical Therapy out of the College of St. Scholastica, orthopedic residency trained, board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist, and a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the NSCA.
He has competed in powerlifting and trained through his own injuries, so he knows the difference between a lift you should skip and a lift you should adjust. That's most of the job.
Every session is a full hour, one on one, with him. Not a tech, not a rotating cast.
People Who Got Their
Training Back
Ever since my back surgery, I struggled to load my squat and deadlift. Steven helped me adjust my form and my load. Now I am stronger than I've ever been.
Within a couple weeks I was able to sleep on that shoulder and lift without pain.
I am 100% pain free now and back to normal activities. One thing I loved most about Steven's approach: he focuses on athletes and people who enjoy being in the gym.
Before You Book
Let's Figure Out
What's Actually Going On
Twenty minutes on the phone. You tell me what's happening, I tell you straight whether I can help. Worst case you leave with a clear answer.