Weeks 1–2
Pain
Calm the pain down.
Hands-on care and smart load management settle the injury while you stay as active as is safe.
What We Treat
Sports injury treatment in Youngstown.
Watching from the sideline while your team plays without you. Easing back into the gym and hoping it holds. Getting back is good. Getting back and staying back is the goal.
Sound Familiar?
Does this sound like you?
- Sitting out practice, games, or workouts because something hurts
- Pain that shows up every time you push past a certain point
- An old injury that flares every season
- Feeling slower, weaker, or less sure of yourself on one side
- Taping, bracing, and icing just to get through a workout
- Not sure if it’s safe to play, so you’re guessing
Two or more? Keep reading.
Why It Happens
An injury is the event. Something set it up.
Some sports injuries are pure bad luck, like a rolled ankle or a collision. Many more build up quietly: training load that jumped too fast, tight or weak muscles that change how you move, poor recovery between sessions, or an old injury that never got fully rehabbed and left you compensating.
Resting until it stops hurting treats the symptom and leaves the setup in place. A cause-first evaluation checks the injured area and the movement patterns around it, so you come back with the problem actually fixed, not just quiet.
The Honest Truth
Playing through it usually means sitting out longer.
If you keep waiting
- A small strain can turn into a bigger tear if you keep loading it
- You compensate, and the next injury shows up somewhere else
- Time off stretches from a couple of weeks into a whole season
If you start this week
- We start looking for the actual cause at your first visit
- Hands-on care starts the same visit
- You get a plan built around your sport and your season
Nobody regrets starting too early.
How We Fix It
The same four phases. Built for your sport.
Here’s what the four phases look like for a sports injury.
Weeks 2–6
Prime
Get your motion back.
Mobility work restores full range so you’re not playing around a stiff joint.
Weeks 6–10
Perform
Make it strong enough to trust.
Progressive strength and power work rebuilds the injured area and the muscles around it.
Weeks 10+
Prevent
Return better than before.
Sport-specific drills test speed, cutting, and landing before you’re cleared to play.
Lift heavy stuff at my business all the time. When hurting and out of place they get me back up and going in no time.
Mike F. · Google review
Questions, Answered
What people ask before booking for a sports injury.
Not when the pain stops, but when the injured area passes the tests your sport will put it through. Before you’re cleared, we check strength, motion, and sport-specific movements like running, cutting, jumping, or throwing, so you go back with confidence instead of a guess.
You don’t have to choose. Our chiropractor and physical therapy team work under one roof, so your plan can include adjustments, hands-on care, and rehab exercise, whatever your injury actually needs.
It depends on what’s driving your injury and how long you’ve had it. Your plan runs through four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, and Prevent, and you’ll always know which phase you’re in and what’s left.
Book Your Visit
Ready when you are.
Request a time and we’ll call you back to lock it in. No phone tree. Just a plan.
- Hours Mon, Wed & Fri 8 AM–5 PM · Thu 8 AM–1 PM
- (330) 707-9127 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- Chiropractic + PT under one roof
4.9 · 9 Google reviews
Personal injury & workers’ comp welcome
Step 1 of 5
Request sent.
That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during business hours to lock in your time.
Visit Us
Care this good, this close.
Total Health and Wellness
- 263 W McKinley Way Ste 101, Youngstown, OH 44514
- (330) 707-9127
- Fax: (330) 707-9129
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Mon, Wed & Fri: 8 AM–5 PM
Thu: 8 AM–1 PM
Tue, Sat & Sun: Closed