To run is to face the possibility of injury—research shows that over 80% of runners will experience some form of injury. While getting injured is common, it’s not your fault, and you don’t have to face recovery alone.
Our goal is to help you develop a game plan to stay resilient, confident, and ready to run.
Common injuries that we treat include:
Runners commonly experience two main types of injuries: soft tissue injuries and bone stress injuries. While both can impact your running performance and comfort, they require different approaches to recovery and prevention.
Our experienced team can develop a customized recovery strategy aimed at facilitating bone healing, preventing future injuries, and optimizing your return to running safely.
Injury recovery and prevention start with understanding that your body is a multifactorial system. Factors like hormonal balance, nutrition, sleep, and even life stress impact how well your body can adapt to the physical demands of running.
When it comes to soft-tissue injuries, many runners focus solely on symptom relief, but true recovery and long-term injury prevention go beyond just addressing pain. At the core of our philosophy is a proactive approach that emphasizes building resilience, not just treating symptoms. By focusing on strengthening, optimizing running form, and educating runners about injury prevention, we help you reduce the risk of future injuries.
Soft-tissue injuries are often the result of training errors or overuse, but rest alone is rarely the solution. To resolve these issues and avoid recurrence, it’s important to manage training load, monitor key variables, and gradually return to running with a focus on movement quality. This holistic approach ensures that you’re not only recovering but also improving your durability, allowing for safer, more sustainable training in the long run.
A bone stress injury (BSI) is gradual damage to bone due to repetitive stress that exceeds the body’s ability to repair, common in athletes like runners. BSIs, unlike traumatic fractures, develop over time as small cracks in the bone matrix, often due to increased training loads, poor nutrition, or hormonal factors. Bones respond best to high-impact, varied, and dynamic loading, so an ideal training plan incorporates these elements. By examining the big picture—including sleep quality, nutritional habits, and training patterns—we help uncover hidden factors contributing to BSI risk and develop a comprehensive plan for recovery and prevention.
Our approach to running injuries goes beyond addressing the immediate pain, taking a comprehensive look at both the big picture and the specifics of your injury. We begin with detailed anatomy and biomechanics of your injury, focusing on how you landed in this position. This includes essential information on diagnosis and healing timelines, so you’re well-informed about the recovery journey.
We establish clear criteria for each rehab phase and set targeted goals to help you track your progress. You’ll receive customized weekly exercise and cross-training progressions designed for your injury, plus targeted plyometric exercises to rebuild strength and stability where it matters most. Throughout your rehab, we’ll identify important red flags so you can recognize when it might be “too much.” When you’re ready, we’ll guide you through tailored return-to-run progressions based on your individual goals, supporting a safe and sustainable return to running.
We are passionate about helping you live without fear of dizziness, migraines, or headaches disrupting your life. From your first session, we work together to create a path toward relief and recovery, giving you the tools you need to feel steady, confident, and in control.
We take a patient-first approach, focusing on your unique needs and goals. Understanding how deeply these conditions impact your life, we listen, assess, and create a personalized treatment plan. Through open communication and collaboration, we’ll guide you every step of the way, ensuring you feel heard, respected, and supported throughout your recovery.
Our mission is simple: to help you regain balance, manage pain, and get back to the activities you love—safely, confidently, and with long-term well-being in mind. You don’t have to keep living with dizziness or migraines. We are here to help you take the first step toward feeling like yourself again.
I run cross country and track for YSU and have been getting treatment from Rachael for a couple of months. Over the summer, I was struggling with severe plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendinitis, which almost took me out of the season. After just a few weeks of working with Rachael, I returned to full strength and ran a personal best in the 8k, breaking 24 minutes and improving by over a minute from my best. Thanks to her, I feel more confident than ever when racing, knowing I’m healthy. The care I’ve received has been invaluable, and I’ve made treatment at Crew an essential part of my training routine. The staff is incredibly caring and knowledgeable and truly understands how to treat runners effectively. I trust them fully to keep me race ready every week.
Rachael and Caitlin at Crew are my DREAM TEAM!
I have very unique medical needs and every time I go to Crew, they listen to my questions and concerns. They create detailed plans, based on my needs, so that I can reach my goals.
Crew took me from having trouble going up the steps without weird sensations in my leg and poor pelvic floor functioning to feeling confident running a Spartan 5K located on a ski slope.
My experience at Crew Physical Therapy was great! I went in with knee pain, and wanted to get back to running pain free! I worked with Rachael, who was a pleasure to work with. Every time I went in, I had 1 on 1 time to go over exercises to do for the next week. Each week built on the previous, and although I had to be patient with the return to running, I’m happy to say I’m back to being pain free! I can’t recommend Crew enough!!
I’ve been a patient at Crew Physical Therapy for over 3 years now. I went there in 2020 for a running related injury. With their guidance, expertise, and knowledge, I overcame my injury, learned a lot in the process, and came back even stronger than before. I could not be more grateful that Crew Physical Therapy was recommended to me, as I have had such a positive experience there. I also go back a couple times a year for maintenance appointments during training to keep everything in check and we update my strength exercises based on what races I’m running. It has been so beneficial to do this. If you are seeking a physical therapist who cares and will work with you to get you where you want to be, look no further than Crew!
I first came to Crew with a recurring achilles tendon injury related to running. I was initially hesitant with reaching out because I thought that I could solve my issues on my own. Through repeated re-injury and encouragement from friends, I finally decided to sign up for PT. I wish I had made the decision sooner. The care that Crew provides is next level. They provide you with a personalized approach, and will let you know about every step of the recovery process. No questions that you have will go unanswered. Since I had such a positive experience with my achilles tendon PT, I decided to work with them to fix shoulder issues that I had been dealing with for years. What was once 24/7 pain for about 4 years became no pain at all, all over the course of a few weeks. If you are hesitant, I would highly recommend giving Crew a chance. It was one of the best decisions that I’ve made.
Caitlin and Rachel have been so awesome helping me get back to normal after a running injury, very thankful for Crew and the vast knowledge they provide!!
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