What We Treat

Pre and post-surgery rehab in Murray.

The surgery you’re preparing for, or the recovery you’re in the middle of. Going in stronger and coming back right both start with a cause-first evaluation, not a guess.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • A surgery on the calendar and no real plan for after
  • Wanting to go in as strong as possible so recovery comes easier
  • Home from the operation with a sheet of exercises and a lot of questions
  • A joint that’s stiff and swollen, and no idea how hard to push it
  • Worried you’ll do too much, or too little, and set yourself back
  • Wanting to get back to work, sport, or lifting without rushing it

Two or more? Keep reading.

Why It Matters

Surgery is a step. Recovery is the work.

A good outcome isn’t just about the operation. What you do before and after matters just as much. Going in stronger, what we call prehab, means more strength and motion to draw on afterward, so you recover from a higher starting point. It also means you know exactly what to expect on the other side.

After surgery, healing tissue has to be respected, then loaded, in the right order and at the right time. Push too soon and you risk the repair. Wait too long and the joint stiffens and the muscles waste. A cause-first evaluation, paired with your surgeon’s protocol, tells us exactly where you are and what your body is ready for next, phase by phase.

Physical therapist guiding a patient through post-surgery rehabilitation exercises

The Honest Truth

Skipping rehab doesn’t save time. It costs it.

If you keep waiting

  • Skipping prehab means starting your recovery from a weaker place
  • A joint left stiff after surgery can be hard to loosen later
  • Muscle wastes fast after an operation, and lost strength takes far longer to rebuild

If you start this week

  • You know exactly where you stand and what’s next by the end of visit one
  • Hands-on relief and safe early movement start before you leave the building
  • You get a plan with an endpoint: a real return to your life, not an open tab of visits

Nobody regrets starting too early. Every week, someone in our clinic says they regret waiting.

How We Fix It

The same four phases. Built around your surgery.

You’re the one who prepares, who does it right. This is where that pays off: the people who prehab and rehab well recover faster and further. You’ll work one-on-one with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, every visit. Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what the four phases look like.

Weeks 1–2

Pain

Calm the pain down.

We protect the healing area, manage swelling and soreness, and get you moving safely, starting your very first visit.

Weeks 2–6

Prime

Get your motion back.

Guided, protocol-safe mobility restores the range the joint loses after surgery, before stiffness can set in.

Weeks 6–10

Perform

Make it strong enough to trust.

Progressive strength rebuilds the muscle that faded around the operation, so the repair has real support under it.

Weeks 10+

Prevent

Return better than before.

We test the movements your life and work demand under real load before you’re cleared to go all-in: that’s the endpoint, not just another appointment.

After having back surgery, Isaac’s personalized approach to PT has been exactly what I needed. The pacing has been just right and any questions I have between sessions are answered promptly. I highly recommend him.

Shared by Shaun T. · Post-surgery rehab

Week 1: home from surgery, nervous about every movement

Week 12: back to full days, moving with confidence

Post-surgery rehab 12 weeks

Related Conditions

Pain rarely stays in one place.

Compensation patterns often show up nearby. Here’s what else we treat.

1

ACL Tears

A knee that buckles when you plant, cut, or trust it with your weight.

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Rotator Cuff Tears

The overhead reach that used to be automatic and now sets off a warning.

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Hip & Knee Pain

Taking the stairs one at a time because your knee doesn’t trust the next step.

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Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for surgery rehab.

Not necessarily. Starting before surgery, prehab, builds the strength and motion you’ll draw on afterward, and people who go in stronger tend to recover faster. It also means you already know your Doctor of PT and your plan before day one. If surgery is already behind you, the best time to start is now. We’ll meet you wherever you are.

No, we work right alongside them. Your surgeon’s protocol sets the guardrails, and a Doctor of PT builds your plan inside them, progressing you only as fast as the healing allows. You get one-on-one care every visit, so nothing gets rushed and nothing gets skipped. The goal is the outcome your surgery was meant to give you.

It depends on the procedure, but most patients move through a clear, phased plan over several weeks to a few months. A full plan runs through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, and Prevent, matched to your surgeon’s timeline. Either way, you get a plan with an endpoint: you’ll always know which phase you’re in and what’s left, not an open-ended string of appointments.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon, Tue & Thu: 8:00am-6:00pm, Wed: 2:00pm-5:00pm, Fri: 8:00am-1:00pm
  • (385) 743-2757 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Same-week appointments available

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