Finding the cause, not the location
The most useful thing an orthopedic evaluation does is separate where you hurt from why you hurt. Those are frequently different places, and the gap between them explains most of the therapy that does not work.
A shoulder that keeps impinging may be a shoulder problem. It may also be a thoracic spine that will not extend, which forces the shoulder blade into a position from which the shoulder has nowhere to go. Treat the shoulder and you get short-lived relief. Treat the thoracic spine and the shoulder stops being the problem.
This is what the Selective Functional Movement Assessment is designed to sort out. It works backwards from a painful or limited movement through the chain that produces it, distinguishing a genuine mobility restriction from a stability or motor-control problem. Those two look similar from outside and need opposite treatment, which is why guessing between them is expensive.
What we treat
Shoulder, hip and knee pain. Spine-related pain and injury, including neck and low back. Tendon problems. Sports injuries and the aftermath of them. Recurring strains that keep returning to the same place. Post-operative recovery.
If you have been given a diagnosis already, bring it. Imaging is useful context but it is not the whole story, and plenty of people are walking around comfortably with findings on a scan that would look alarming on paper.
The evaluation
The $325 comprehensive evaluation runs a full hour and covers orthopedic, neurological and biomechanical assessment, movement mapping, and functional target tracking against the things you actually want to get back to.
It ends with a plan you understand and your first treatment already delivered. Nobody should leave an evaluation having only been assessed. If we found something we can start relieving on day one, we start on day one.
The hour is the point
The single biggest structural difference between this and a typical clinic visit is that the hour is yours. Not fifteen minutes with the therapist and forty-five on a machine with an aide. Not shared with two other patients on adjacent tables.
That changes what is possible. Manual therapy takes time. Watching someone move, correcting it, and watching again takes time. Explaining what you found, so the person understands their own body well enough to manage it, takes time. Those are the parts that get compressed out of a shorter appointment, and they are the parts that make the difference last.
Where treatment happens
In your home, at your club, in your gym, or wherever you are. We bring a professional treatment table and everything else. You do not drive, park, or wait.