Sports injury treatment in Washington.

No. In Washington, DC you can see a physical therapist directly, with no referral, and most sports injuries do not need imaging to be assessed properly. A hands-on evaluation tells us what your tissue is doing under load right now, which a scan cannot. If what we find belongs with an orthopedist instead, we will tell you plainly and point you there rather than sell you visits. That happens here, and it is the whole reason the first conversation is free.

Almost never, and that fear is the main reason athletes wait until it is bad. Total rest calms the sore tissue and quietly weakens everything else, which is how people come back and get hurt again. So we work out what you can keep doing, and often that means changing the surface, the volume or one movement rather than the whole week. Trupti runs, so she knows exactly what being told to stop costs you.

That depends on the injury and on how long you have been playing through it, so we will not invent a date at the front desk. What you get is a plan with an endpoint. After your evaluation you will hear when to expect the first real change and when you should no longer need us. You will know which of the four phases you are in, Pain, Prime, Perform, or Prevent, and what you have to pass before you go back at full speed.