What We Treat

Sports injury treatment in Vancouver.

The finger that won’t fully close. The wrist that gives out mid-lift. You want back on the field, and it starts with a cause-first evaluation, not a guess.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • A jammed finger that still won’t bend weeks after the game
  • Wrist pain that flares every time you grip or load it
  • An elbow that aches on every throw, serve, or swing
  • Swelling that won’t settle no matter how much you ice it
  • Gripping the bar or racket and feeling it give out on you
  • Sitting out the sport you love because your hand can’t take it

Two or more? Keep reading.

Why It Happens

The injury is a symptom. Something causes it.

Your hand didn’t fail for no reason. A sports injury is rarely just one thing. It’s usually a mix: a ligament stretched past its limit, a tendon overloaded rep after rep, a joint that stiffened while you guarded it, and a return to play before the tissue was ready. Each one keeps reloading the same spot before it heals.

None of that shows up in a quick glance. It takes a cause-first evaluation to find what’s actually driving your pain. That’s why rest and ice alone so often fall short: they calm the symptom, not the source. As an athlete, you need the injured part strong enough to trust. Find the real cause, and the path back to sport gets obvious.

Person holding their shoulder in pain after a sports injury

The Honest Truth

Waiting on an injury doesn’t make it wait on you.

If you keep waiting

  • The tissue heals short and stiff, and never gets its full motion back
  • You favor the other side, and it starts breaking down too
  • A minor sprain hardens into a chronic problem that follows you every season

If you start this week

  • You know the actual cause by the end of visit one
  • You work one-on-one with a Certified Hand Therapist, every visit
  • You get a plan with an endpoint: a real one, 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 to get you back to sport.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what the four phases look like for a hand, wrist, or elbow injury.

Weeks 1–2

Pain

Calm the pain down.

Smart offloading and targeted techniques settle the swelling and take the edge off, starting your very first visit.

Weeks 2–6

Prime

Get your motion back.

Targeted mobility work restores the range your finger, wrist, or elbow lost while it was guarding the injury.

Weeks 6–10

Perform

Make it strong enough to trust.

Protected, progressive loading rebuilds the grip and control your sport demands, one safe step at a time.

Weeks 10+

Prevent

Return better than before.

You meet clear return criteria under real load before you’re cleared to play full-out: that’s the endpoint, not just another appointment.

Andrew helped me recover mobility in my index finger after dislocating it playing basketball. He followed up multiple times and long after the initial set of visits. I highly recommend him!

Shared by Andrew P. · Basketball finger injury

Early on: an index finger that wouldn’t fully bend after the dislocation

Later: mobility back, gripping a basketball again

Finger injury Back to sport

Related Conditions

Pain rarely stays in one place.

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

1

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Numbness, tingling, and a grip that fades right when you need it.

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Tendinitis

Reaching overhead or gripping flares a tendon that will not calm down.

Learn More 3

Nerve Pain

Burning, tingling, or numbness down your arm that no one has explained.

Learn More

Questions, Answered

What athletes ask before booking.

Sometimes rest is enough. Often it isn’t. A finger, wrist, or elbow that heals while stiff can lock in lost motion and a weaker grip, which sets up the next injury. The smarter move is a cause-first evaluation to see what’s actually hurt, then the right loading at the right time. You don’t have to choose between resting and pushing through.

That’s the goal, and it’s what the plan is built around. You work one-on-one with a Certified Hand Therapist, every visit, rebuilding motion and strength in the order your body needs. Then Andrew tests your hand under real load and clears you against return criteria, not a guess. Most athletes get back to the thing they love.

Most people feel meaningful change within the first few visits. A full plan for a sports injury runs through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, and Prevent, with the timeline set by how your tissue is healing. 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 - Fri: 8am - 5pm
  • (360) 309-0176 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Same-week appointments available

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