Phase One
Pain
Take the heat out of it.
Hands-on work, dry needling where it fits, and focused shockwave therapy aimed at deep tendon targets. You get real modifications for this week’s programming, not a blanket no.
What We Treat
CrossFit injury treatment in Richardson.
You’ve been scaling around it for weeks and calling that managing it. Resting won’t answer why the shoulder gave out. A cause-first evaluation will, and then you get the whole whiteboard back.
Sound Familiar?
Does this sound like your week at the box?
- You read the whiteboard for what you’ll have to scale before you read the workout
- Snatches and overhead squats got quietly swapped for something that doesn’t hurt
- The first pull-up feels fine. Rep nine of forty is where the shoulder speaks up
- Your warm-up got twenty minutes longer and you call that being smart
- The knee is quiet during the workout and loud on the stairs the next morning
- You’ve started skipping the days you know that movement is programmed
Two or more? Scaling isn’t a diagnosis.
Why It Happens
Nothing you do is bad for you. Too much of it, too soon, is.
CrossFit didn’t wreck your shoulder. The gap between what you asked it to do and what it could absorb that day did. Intensity, volume, and fatigue all stack on top of each other. Late in a set, the joint that was supposed to share the load stops sharing, and one tissue eats the whole rep. Repeat that across a few weeks of pressing or pulling and you get tendon pain that feels like it appeared out of nowhere. It didn’t.
That’s a capacity problem, not a willpower problem, and scaling alone doesn’t solve it. A cause-first evaluation tests how you actually move under load, and movement assessments like SFMA and FMS show which link quit. Larry Hernandez, who owns this clinic, trains CrossFit himself. Nobody here is going to tell you to take up swimming instead.
The Honest Truth
The season you’re scaling around is still a season.
If you keep waiting
- Scaling turns into avoiding, and avoiding turns into a movement you no longer own
- The Open, the throwdown, or the cycle you were building toward gets written off
- A tendon that keeps getting reloaded never gets the chance to rebuild
If you start this week
- You know which tissue is actually over its limit by the end of visit one
- You keep training with real modifications instead of guessing at them mid-workout
- You get a plan with an endpoint, and the movements come back on a progression
Rest isn’t a plan. It’s a pause, and the barbell asks the same question when you come back.
How We Fix It
The same four phases. Built for the way you train.
You work one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit. Here’s what the four phases look like for a CrossFit injury.
Phase Two
Prime
Rebuild the link that quit.
Movement assessment finds the joint that stopped sharing load. Shoulder, hip, and trunk capacity get rebuilt in the positions your sport actually asks for.
Phase Three
Perform
Earn the movement back, rep by rep.
This is where the barbell goes back in your hands. Overhead position first, then load, then volume, then speed, then fatigue, each one cleared before the next. You lift in front of us, because what rep twenty does to your mechanics is the part that matters.
Phase Four
Prevent
Stop rehabbing the same shoulder.
You leave with your own rules for volume, warm-up, and when to pull back, plus the short list of accessory work that keeps it quiet. Personal training picks up where rehab ends if you want the handoff.
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Questions, Answered
What athletes ask before booking.
Not necessarily, and stopping is usually the wrong lever anyway. Total rest calms the pain without changing what caused it, so it comes back the week you return to full volume. We work out what you can safely load right now and modify the specific movements driving the problem, not your entire week. Sometimes that means changing the lift. Sometimes it means changing the volume. Rarely does it mean changing everything.
Usually not, and it’s rarely the first step. Imaging turns up tendon and disc changes in plenty of people who train pain-free, so a scan on its own doesn’t tell you what’s driving your symptoms. We start with a hands-on, cause-first evaluation and test the movements that actually hurt. In Texas you can see a licensed physical therapist for up to 30 days without a physician referral, and treatment beyond 30 days needs one. If imaging turns out to be genuinely necessary, we’ll help you get there.
No. Bands have a place and it’s a small one. Your plan is built on what the evaluation finds: hands-on treatment, dry needling or focused shockwave therapy when the tissue calls for it, then real strength work in the positions your sport demands. The last phase happens with a barbell in your hands, because a shoulder that only feels good on a treatment table hasn’t been tested yet.
Book Your Visit
Ready when you are.
Request a time and a real person calls you back during business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
- Hours Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm
- (972) 526-5693 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- No referral needed to start
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On Point Movement & Performance
- 445 Walnut St. STE 109, Richardson, TX 75081 (opens in a new tab)
- (972) 526-5693
- Fax: (469) 784-9424
- info@onpointmvp.com
- Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm