A full hour, one-on-one
Every session is an hour with a Doctor of Physical Therapy. No getting handed to an aide, no sharing your time with three other people.
Sound familiar?
You’re doing the work, but is it the right work?
An ACL injury changes things fast. One day you are training or competing, the next you are handed timelines, protocols, and a lot of opinions that all feel generic.
Maybe you were told to rest, follow a standard protocol, or just wait it out. Maybe you are doing exercises without really understanding how any of them connect to getting you back on the field.
That is where the doubt creeps in. You are putting in the work, but you are not sure it is the right work, and no one has shown you what “ready” actually looks like.
The part most people aren’t told
Getting cleared is not the same as being ready
Most rehab stops at pain relief and basic motion. That gets you walking again, but it does not prepare a knee for cutting, landing, and sprinting, and stopping there is where people get hurt again.
This is not meant to scare you. It is the reason we do rehab the way we do, and why the research shapes every decision we make.
The recovery roadmap
A 10-step path back to your sport
We do not guess, and we do not hand you a sheet of exercises. Every ACL recovery follows a proven progression, from calming the knee to returning to sport, so you always know where you are and what’s next. Each step has to be earned before you move on.
01
Pain, Swelling & Guarding
Calm pain, swelling, and protective muscle guarding so the area can heal.
02
General Mobility
Restore range of motion and get the joint moving freely again.
03
Local Muscle Strength
Rebuild strength in the muscles right around the injury.
04
Balance & Coordination
Retrain control, proprioception, and coordinated movement.
05
General Muscle Endurance
Build the endurance to handle repeated, everyday loads.
06
General Muscle Strength
Progress to full-body strength beyond the injured area.
07
Rate of Force Absorption
Train landing and decelerating so you can absorb force safely.
08
Rate of Force Production
Develop power and explosiveness for real-world demands.
09
Return-to-Running
Progress running gradually with clear, tested milestones.
10
Return-to-Sport
Complete return-to-sport testing and clearance with confidence.
What’s different
Rehab built to actually get you back
The 10 steps are the map. These four things are how we run it, and why our athletes come back with a knee they trust.
We assess, we don’t guess
Your plan starts with a real movement assessment, not a generic protocol printed for every ACL.
A test to pass, not just more exercises
You earn your way back through measured checkpoints: strength symmetry, control, and sport-specific testing. “Ready” is proven, not assumed.
Always in your pocket
Your plan, your progressions, and a line to your clinician live in the EVO app, so you are never guessing between sessions.
Wherever you’re starting
Three common places people find us
Preparing for surgery
The stronger you go in, the better you come out. We restore full extension, wake up the quad, and calm swelling now, so recovery starts from a better place.
Fresh out of surgery
Early on, the priorities are full extension, waking up the quad, controlling swelling, and restoring a normal walk, before we ever touch strength and agility.
Already had PT elsewhere
Many people still have pain, weakness, or hesitation because steps got skipped the first time. We find the gaps and close them, so you can finally get all the way back.
The research
Why we won’t rush you back
Our approach is not a philosophy, it is what the evidence points to. Here is some of it.
Across 48 studies, about 63% of athletes returned to their preinjury level of sport after ACL reconstruction, and fear of reinjury was the most common reason the others did not.
In younger athletes who return to sport, the rate of a second ACL injury is about 23%, close to 1 in 4.
The one study that shapes how we clear you
Waited 9+ months and passed the return-to-sport tests
6%
Returned to sport without passing them
38%
Both groups are reinjury rates after ACL reconstruction. When athletes waited until at least 9 months and passed a set of strength and hop tests before returning to sport, reinjury dropped sharply.
This is the whole reason we test before we clear you. Passing is not a formality, it is the single biggest thing separating a comeback that lasts from one that ends in another tear.
Studies located via PubMed.
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The free ACL recovery guide
The same progression our clinicians use to take a knee from surgery to sport. All the phases, in order, with the milestones that actually matter. Yours free. Just tell us where to send it.
- ✓The order recovery follows, and why skipping ahead sets you back.
- ✓The tests that tell you a knee is truly ready, not just cleared.
- ✓The questions to ask whoever is guiding your rehab.
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