Treatment That Teaches You to Fix Yourself!
Adjustments and soft tissue work reduce pain. Structured rehab solves the root cause. We use both!
At 417 Performance, our job isn't to fix you, it's to teach you. All the latest research consistently shows that the more self-reliant you become in managing your body, the better your long-term outcomes. That's why every treatment we provide is designed to give you the knowledge, strength, and confidence to take control of your recovery. By the end of your care plan, you won't just be out of pain. You'll be stronger and better than before the pain started! You'll walk out knowing you have the tools to handle any future flare-ups on your own.
Movement-Based Assessments
We believe you can learn far more about the cause of a person's body injury by watching them move actually move their body than you can from still image in time, like an X-ray. That's why every new patient goes through a comprehensive movement-based evaluation, not a quick once-over and a picture.
What to Expect Your First Visit
(~60 minutes)
We start by getting the full picture of your injury history, your current condition, and your goals. We also want to understand what's holding you back: whether that's fear of re-injury, frustration with past treatment, or uncertainty about what's actually wrong.
From there, we put you through a thorough physical evaluation that includes:
- Global movement screens (overhead squat, hip hinge patterns, etc.) to see how your whole body moves together
- Location-specific screens (like a push-up test for shoulder stability or single-leg balance for hip control)
- Active and passive range of motion testing to identify restrictions
- Manual muscle strength testing to find weaknesses contributing to your pain
- Breathing and core pressure assessment because how you stabilize affects everything
- Neurodynamic testing when nerve involvement is suspected
- End-range loading tests to determine what movements help vs. aggravate your condition
This isn't a checklist we rush through. Every assessment is tailored to your specific condition, because you don't evaluate low back pain the same way you evaluate a shoulder impingement.
Our Three-Phase Treatment Model
Phase 1: Reduce Pain & Restore Mobility
Phase 2: Rebuild Stability & Movement Patterns
Phase 3: Return to Performance
Phase 1: Reduce Pain & Restore Mobility
(Weeks 1-3)
Goal: Get your pain under control and restore basic movement capacity.
What it looks like: In Phase 1, we spend about 50-60% of your session on hands-on treatment—adjustments, dry needling, soft tissue work, or whatever tools necessary to best reduce your pain and improve your mobility. The remaining time is spent pairing that treatment with corrective exercises designed to maximize and maintain the benefits of what we just did.
Why it matters: Passive treatments like adjustments create a window of opportunity. Corrective exercises help you keep that window open. Without the exercise component, the relief is temporary.
Phase 2: Rebuild Stability & Movement Patterns
(Weeks 4-10)
Goal: Correct the underlying dysfunction that caused the problem in the first place.
What it looks like: With pain under control, we shift the balance. Now we spend only 30-50% of your session on hands-on work, with the majority focused on guided corrective exercises. This is where we rebuild proper stability patterns, retrain functional movement, and address the root cause—not just the symptoms.
Why it matters: Most injuries don't happen because of bad luck. They happen because of movement dysfunction, muscle imbalance, or stability deficits that accumulate over time. If we don't fix those, your pain will come back.
Phase 3: Return to Performance
(Timeline Varies)
Goal: Get you back to the activities you love, and make sure you stay there.
What it looks like: Phase 3 is personalized to your goals. For some patients, this means transitioning to periodic tune-up sessions—bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly maintenance visits to keep everything running smoothly. For athletes looking to return to sport at full capacity, Phase 3 means performance-focused training: weight lifting, plyometrics, blood flow restriction training, and sport-specific movement work. In these sessions, we spend about 20% of the time on maintenance treatment and 80% on high-level exercise.
Why it matters: "Feeling better" and "ready to perform" are not the same thing. Phase 3 closes the gap between pain-free and game-ready.
Pain Is More Than Physical!
We take a biopsychosocial approach to treatment. That's a clinical way of saying we understand that pain isn't just about tissues, it's influenced by so many other factors of life like: your movement habits, your stress levels, your sleep, your fears about the injury, and your beliefs about recovery.
Our treatment integrates principles of Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS), which focuses on how your brain controls movement and stability. When you learn to move the way your body was designed to move everything else gets easier.
We are not just trying to chase pain away with adjustments. We are helping you build a body that doesn't break down under the demands of the life you want to live.
Passive Treatments Are Great Tools, but Not "The Solution"
We have a full toolbox of manual therapy techniques: chiropractic adjustments, dry needling, Active Release Technique, instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM), and shockwave therapy. These are powerful tools for reducing pain, releasing tight tissues, and restoring mobility.
But here's what we want you to understand: these treatments open a window. They create the conditions for healing. Corrective exercise and movement retraining are what actually fix the problem.
That's why we never rely on passive treatment alone, and why you'll always leave with work to do at home.
The "magic" isn't in an adjustment or a dry needle, it's in what you do after...
What to Expect From Your Sessions:
Initial Evaluation:
Follow-Up Sessions:
Tune-Up Sessions:
Our Promise to You
By the end of your care plan, you should be:
- Out of pain and back to the activities you love
- Stronger and more resilient than you were before the injury
- Confident that if pain ever returns, you have the tools to control it and stop it in its tracks
