Stop Treating the Symptom. Start Fixing the Problem.
You've probably already tried treating the painful area. Maybe your GP told you there wasn't much to do. Maybe you've been managing it yourself for months, foam rolling the IT band, icing the knee, stretching the same spots — and it keeps coming back.
That's because the pain is rarely where the problem is.
At Element, our sports injury specialist takes a different approach. Every injury rehab appointment begins with a full-body movement assessment, not just a look at where it hurts. This is what separates sports rehabilitation from a quick adjustment or a massage, we find out why you keep getting hurt, not just what hurts right now.
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What Happens at Your First Appointment
Most patients come in with a self-diagnosis and a fixed idea of what treatment looks like. They leave with a completely different, and much clearer, picture of what's actually going on in their body.
Here's how the first session works:
Quick history. We start by listening, what hurts, when it started, what makes it better or worse. This isn't a form you fill out in the waiting room. It's a real conversation about your movement history and what you've already tried.
Full-body movement assessment. We assess the whole body, not just the painful area. Chronic and recurring injuries almost always have a root cause somewhere else in the system, a hip that doesn't rotate, an ankle that won't dorsiflex, a thoracic spine that's locked up. The shoulder isn't the problem. The shoulder is paying the price.
The body map. As we move through the assessment, we draw a body map in real time, blue markers for mobility restrictions throughout the body, red markers for compensation patterns where the body is overloading. You see it happening. You watch the map take shape. And 99% of the time, the red and the blue are in different places. Patients consistently say this is the moment they finally understand why treating just the painful area has never worked.
Hands-on treatment begins the same session. We don't send you home with a handout. Joint manipulation where restricted motion is creating load, muscle work around the painful area using Active Release Techniques, and mobility work targeted at the root restriction sites, all in the same visit.
Mobility homework. You'll leave with specific movement drills that reinforce what was done in the session, not generic exercises, but targeted work for the patterns we found on your map.
Gym partnership introduced. Patients are encouraged to connect with our in-house trainers, who can supervise your rehab exercises during group fitness classes. This keeps you accountable and means you're not trying to remember and replicate clinical work alone at home — where most people stop doing it.
Conditions We Work With
Element's sports injury rehab services are built for people with specific, diagnosed problems, not general soreness or maintenance care. If you have a diagnosis, a recurring issue, or a pattern of pain that keeps showing up no matter what you do, this is where you start.
Common conditions include:
- Low back pain
- Runner's knee and IT band syndrome
- Patellofemoral tracking disorders
- Tennis elbow and pickleball elbow
- Hip pain
- Knee pain
- Ankle restrictions and stiffness
- Chronic recurring sports injuries
- Shoulder pain and rotator cuff issues
- Upper back pain and thoracic restrictions
If you've been managing one of these for a while and keep ending up back at square one, that's exactly who this appointment is designed for.
Diagnostic Procedures
Injury Focused Diagnosis
Total Body Movement Assessment
Rehab Services
Hands-On Muscle Therapy
Hands-On Joint Therapy
Fascial Movement Taping
Mobility Training
Movement Drills
Frequently Asked Questions
That depends on what we find in your assessment, how long the pattern has been there, and how well your body responds to treatment. Many patients see meaningful change within the first few sessions. After your first appointment, you'll have a much clearer picture of what the timeline looks like for your specific situation.
Injury rehab is for patients with a specific diagnosis or recurring problem that needs to be identified and addressed. Recovery is for patients who are past the acute phase and coming in for maintenance, post-workout care, or general upkeep. Most patients move through rehab first, then transition to recovery once the root cause has been resolved.
That's actually the most common story we hear. Most people who come to Element have already tried something — rest, massage, physio, stretching — and ended up back in pain. The reason that cycle continues is usually because the treatment was aimed at the painful area rather than the movement restriction driving it. The body map approach addresses that directly. If previous treatment hasn't worked, it's worth finding out why before trying the same thing again.
Not at all. The word "sports" refers to the methodology, a movement-based, performance-focused approach to injury, not the type of patient. The full-body assessment and root cause framework works just as well for someone with desk-job low back pain as it does for a competitive runner. If your body moves, and something in that movement isn't working right, this process applies to you.
Most patients leave with more clarity than they came in with, a real understanding of what's going on, why it keeps happening, and what the plan is. Some soreness in the days after is normal, especially if joint work or deep muscle therapy was involved. You'll also have mobility homework to work on before the next visit. The Our Team page has more background on Scott's approach if you want to know what to expect before you arrive.
Movement is Essential
We Nurture It. You Live It
The Rehab Element prioritizes freeing up injury limitations and eliminating pain. Our process is fourfold integrating Elements of Fitness, Performance and Recovery with your Rehab Experience.
Your movement health is our expertise. Fitness, Performance and Recovery deficits exposes your movement health to unnecessary risk. Our systematic approach identifies risks so we know what tools to prioritize in your care plan.
Our Patient-centered, Team Approach leaves no rock unturned.
Let us become experts specializing in you!
- $140 Full Session (55 mins)
- $85 Half Session (25 mins)
