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. Your running gets modified around the tissue, not deleted from your week.
What We Treat
Running injury treatment in Richardson.
Same spot, same mile, every run. You already know what you’re about to be told: rest it. That’s not a plan, it’s a pause. A cause-first evaluation finds what’s failing under load, then gets you back on the road.
Sound Familiar?
Does this sound like your training log?
- Mile three is where it shows up, and it shows up every time
- The first ten steps out the door hurt, then it warms up, and you call that fine
- You cut the long run short and blamed the heat
- Downhills hurt worse than uphills, and you plan your routes around that now
- You’ve traded speed work for easy miles and told yourself it was a base phase
- There’s a race on the calendar and you’ve quietly stopped telling people your goal time
Two or more? You don’t need rest. You need a reason.
Why It Happens
Running didn’t break you. Load you can’t absorb did.
Your knee, your shin, your Achilles: none of them hurt because running is bad for you. They hurt because the demand you put on that tissue outgrew what it can currently absorb. Every stride sends force up the chain. When a calf or a hip stops taking its share, something downstream takes double. Add a mileage jump, a new pair of shoes, a faster block, or a week of bad sleep, and the gap opens.
That gap is the real injury, and it is the one thing a stretch video can’t see. A cause-first evaluation looks at how you load, absorb, and push off, not just where you’re sore. Dr. Cole Cisneros, PT, DPT, is a running specialist here, and movement assessments like SFMA and FMS show us which link quietly stopped doing its job. Raise the capacity and mile three stops being the part you dread.
The Honest Truth
Your season doesn’t wait for you to feel ready.
If you keep waiting
- The race you already paid for turns into a start line you show up to undertrained
- Mileage keeps shrinking, and the engine you spent a year building shrinks with it
- An irritated 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 in some form while the cause gets fixed, not after
- You get a plan with an endpoint, with milestones you can hold a race date against
Rest was never a plan. It was a pause, and the calendar kept moving anyway.
How We Fix It
The same four phases. Built for the way you run.
You work one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit. Here’s what the four phases look like for a running injury.
Phase Two
Prime
Rebuild what stopped pulling its weight.
Movement assessment shows which link is under-loading. Calf, hip, and foot capacity get rebuilt on purpose, so force stops piling onto the one sore spot.
Phase Three
Perform
Run again, and prove it.
A return-to-run progression with criteria, not vibes: easy miles, then hills, then tempo, then back-to-back days, each one cleared before the next unlocks. You run in front of us so we can see what mileage does to your mechanics.
Phase Four
Prevent
Stop losing seasons to this.
You leave with your own load rules: how to add mileage, when to back off, and the short list of work that keeps this quiet. Personal training picks up where rehab ends if you want the handoff.
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Questions, Answered
What runners ask before booking.
Usually not completely. That’s the sentence every runner braces for, and it’s rarely the right one. Total rest quiets the pain without changing why it started, so the same thing shows up again on your first real build week. What we do instead is work out the load your tissue can handle right now, keep you at or just under that line, and raise the ceiling on purpose. Some weeks that means shorter or flatter runs. Some weeks almost nothing changes.
No. Stretching is a small piece, and it’s usually not the piece that fixes a running injury. Your evaluation is hands-on and cause-first: we look at how you load, absorb, and push off, and we use movement assessments like SFMA and FMS to find the link that stopped doing its job. Treatment can include manual therapy, dry needling, and focused shockwave therapy aimed at deep tendon targets. Then it becomes strength and a running progression, because capacity is what actually holds up at mile ten.
Nobody honest can hand you a date before they’ve seen you run, and we won’t pretend otherwise. What you get instead is a plan with an endpoint and criteria you can hold your race date against: easy miles without symptoms, then hills, then tempo, then back-to-back days. You’ll always know which phase you’re in and what’s left, so the call on race day is a real decision instead of a hope.
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