Sports Rehab & Athletic Recovery

Get back to your sport.

Whether you're recovering from an injury or trying to push your performance further, our Franklin and Spring Hill Doctors of Physical Therapy combine orthopedic expertise, sports-specific rehab, and progressive loading to get you back to what you love.

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Doctor-led, athlete-focused

Sports rehab that goes beyond pain-free at rest.

Sports rehab at Beyond Physical Therapy is doctor-led and built around two ideas: rebuild the tissue and rebuild the capacity. Our therapists combine orthopedic evaluation, hands-on care, progressive strengthening, and return-to-sport testing so the rehab program and the sport-specific training do not sit in two different rooms.

We work with athletes across the spectrum. Competitive runners and lifters, weekend CrossFitters, overhead-throwing high schoolers, parents trying to get back to their league. The injury and the goal change. The approach does not.

This page brings sports injuries, sports medicine, CrossFit, strength and conditioning, ACL prevention, and taping into one practical path: treat the injury, rebuild performance, and reduce the chance that the problem comes back.

Orthopedic specialty care

OCS-level sports rehab.

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Allison Lacey.

Doctor of PT · COMT · OCS

Dr. Allison Lacey is an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist. Only about 6% of physical therapists in the U.S. hold the OCS designation. The OCS is one of 10 specialty certifications recognized by the American Physical Therapy Association, and it reflects advanced training for orthopedic conditions from the spine to the extremities, in surgical and non-surgical cases.

Orthopedic Certified Specialist Sports injuries Concussion management Post-surgical rehab

What we treat

Conditions we treat.

Find your condition below to see how we approach it, from the source of pain to the plan that gets you moving again.

  1. Sprains & strains

    Ligament stretching and tearing, muscle and tendon injuries from running, jumping, and direction changes. Manual therapy and progressive loading.

  2. ACL injuries

    Pre-operative prehab, post-surgical recovery, and full return-to-sport progression. We coordinate directly with your surgeon's protocol.

  3. Meniscus & knee injuries

    Tears, runner's knee, IT band syndrome. We treat the whole kinetic chain (hip and ankle as well as the knee), not just the spot that hurts.

  4. Rotator cuff & shoulder

    Tendinopathy, impingement, and post-surgical rehab. Sport-specific overhead athletes get a structured throwing or lifting progression.

  5. Tennis & golfer's elbow

    Lateral and medial epicondylitis. Manual therapy, dry needling, and progressive loading. Most patients improve in 4 to 8 weeks.

  6. Hamstring strains

    Acute strains and recurring tightness. Eccentric loading, neuromuscular work, and progressive return to sprinting.

  7. Dislocations

    Post-reduction rehab for shoulder, elbow, and other joint dislocations from contact sports. Restoring stability and confidence under load.

  8. Fracture recovery

    Post-cast and post-op rehab to restore range of motion, strength, and sport-specific movement.

  9. Concussion management

    Vestibular and oculomotor rehab, graded exertion testing, and return-to-play coordination with your physician.

  10. CrossFit & weightlifting

    Body-mechanics analysis for technical lifts, programming around an injury, and return to the box without re-injury.

  11. Overuse & repetitive strain

    Tendinopathy from training errors. We diagnose the load mismanagement, fix the tissue, and rebuild capacity.

  12. Recurring injuries

    Injuries that keep returning usually need more than rest. We identify movement patterns, strength gaps, and workload issues so recovery does not become a cycle.

  13. Performance checks

    Movement assessments, return-to-training screens, and pre-season checks for athletes who want to find problems before they become injuries.

A program for at-risk athletes

ACL injury prevention.

Between 100,000 and 200,000 people in the U.S. tear an ACL every year, most often between ages 15 and 45. Female soccer, basketball, volleyball, and lacrosse players tear ACLs at higher rates than male athletes. Research shows that targeted physical therapy can reduce ACL injury risk by as much as 50%. We screen for the risk factors (quadriceps and hamstring imbalances, poor landing mechanics, weak neuromuscular control) and build a program to address them before the injury happens.

  • Strength and flexibility work, with focus on quad/hamstring balance
  • Neuromuscular training to improve mind-body connection during sport
  • Balance exercises for stability under sudden movement changes
  • Education on landing, pivoting, and cutting mechanics
  • Sport-specific functional training
A Beyond Physical Therapy clinician guiding balance training in the Franklin clinic.

How it works

What treatment looks like.

The path from your first visit to discharge. We measure progress at every step and tell you straight what's working.

  1. Step 1: Comprehensive evaluation

    Your doctor takes a full history, identifies what's contributing to your pain or limitation, and assesses how you actually move during your sport.

  2. Step 2: Manual therapy and targeted exercise

    Hands-on soft tissue and joint work paired with targeted exercises for strength, mobility, stability, and pain control.

  3. Step 3: Strength and conditioning

    Progressive programming that builds you back to and past your pre-injury baseline, with sport-specific loading and objective return-to-sport benchmarks.

  4. Step 4: Mechanics and workload

    We look at the way you run, lift, throw, cut, land, or train, then adjust technique and workload so the same injury is less likely to return.

  5. Step 5: Return-to-sport progression

    A structured progression that reintroduces sport demands gradually. Sprints, cuts, throws, jumps, lifts. We coordinate with your coach when it helps.

Common questions.

If we missed yours, call us. We'll talk it through over the phone before you book.

Related services

More of what we do.

Our doctors handle a full range of conditions and rehab paths. Pick what's relevant to you.

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Post-Surgical

Structured recovery after surgery

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Vestibular

Dizziness, BPPV, concussion care

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Dry Needling

Targeted relief for stubborn pain

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Functional Recovery

Root-cause support for recovery plateaus

Ready when you are

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