Court Sports: Pickleball & Tennis

Stay on the Court. Recover Stronger. Play with Confidence.

Physical therapy, strength training, and testing for pickleball and tennis players. Manage pain, recover from injury, build the movement your game needs, and stay on the court.

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1080 Sprint unit on a hardwood court during speed testing
  • Starts with AssessAn evaluation before any treatment
  • Hands-on careAt all three clinics
  • Measured progressForce plates & 1080 in Lubbock & Colleyville
  • Three clinicsLubbock, Colleyville, Irving

Who It’s For

  • After surgery: A graded return to the court inside your surgeon's protocol.
  • A fresh injury: Rolled an ankle or tweaked an elbow? Start with an evaluation and a plan.
  • Youth, high school & collegiate players: Junior tennis, school teams, and college play, with parents and coaches in the loop.
  • Adult & league players: Leagues, ladders, tournaments, and weekly open play.
  • Multi-sport & hybrid athletes: Court sports alongside running, the gym, or HYROX training.
  • Lifelong players: Still playing, and planning to for years.

Movement Demands

  • Pickleball: quick starts and stops, side-to-side shuffling, lunging, and fast changes of direction
  • Tennis: serves and overheads, forehand and backhand loading, sprinting, braking, and covering the court

Common Conditions

Conditions We Commonly See

Examples only. Your evaluation decides your plan.

Adult man preparing to serve on an outdoor clay tennis court
  • Ankle sprains and ankles that keep rolling (chronic ankle instability)
  • Achilles tendon pain and heel pain
  • Pain around the kneecap and patellar tendon pain
  • Knee meniscus and ligament injuries
  • Hip flexor and groin strains
  • Pain on the outside of the hip (gluteal tendon pain)
  • Hamstring, quad, and calf strains
  • Shoulder pain with serves and overheads, including rotator cuff tendon pain
  • Tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, and wrist overuse pain
  • Low back pain

How We Help

Rehab. Performance. Recovery.

Three areas of care, one plan. Most athletes retest about every 12 weeks, against their own baseline.

Adult woman reaching overhead to serve a tennis ball

Leads every plan

Rehab

Rehab for ankle, knee, elbow, shoulder, and back injuries, with a graded plan back to practice and play. Personalized care focused on recovery, strength and performance.

Performance

Balance, first-step speed, and side-to-side strength for quick stops and lunges, plus shoulder and arm strength for serves and overheads.

Recovery

Hands-on care such as dry needling, cupping, IASTM, manual therapy and mobility work such as assisted stretching at all three clinics, plus Normatec and localized cryotherapy at Lubbock and Colleyville.

Hands-on care explained

Your Package

Court Sports Package

Every plan starts with an evaluation. Here is what your package includes and an example of how a plan moves, one phase at a time.

What’s in your package

  • What we test firstBaseline landing, symmetry, and shoulder strength.
  • What we work onAnkle stability and deceleration progression; shoulder and elbow care and loading.
  • Care that may be part of itManual therapy, IASTM, dry needling, cupping, localized cryotherapy* and strength training.
  • How we prove progressRe-test symmetry and change of direction, with a report that compares every result to your baseline.
  • What you leave withYour test report, a home program on paper, and updates to your coach or physician with your permission.

Visits are set by your progress, not a fixed number. *At Lubbock and Colleyville.

See how a plan moves

Example: Tennis elbow (lateral elbow tendinopathy)A pickleball or tennis player with pain on the outside of the elbow when gripping or hitting a backhand.

Phase 1 of 4

Settle it

Reduce pain with gripping.

What we do

Isometric wrist extensor exercise, hands-on care to the elbow, and dry needling where appropriate.

To move on

Pain-free grip strength improving from your baseline.

Phase 2 of 4

Strengthen

Rebuild forearm, grip and shoulder strength.

What we do

Progressive wrist extensor strengthening, plus shoulder and upper back work that supports your stroke.

To move on

Pain-free grip strength close to your other side.

Phase 3 of 4

Rebuild the stroke

Return to hitting step by step.

What we do

A phased return to hitting: volume first, then intensity, then match play.

To move on

A full practice session with no flare-up the next day.

Phase 4 of 4

Back to match play

Play without the elbow holding you back.

What we do

Regular play, with strength work kept up between matches.

To move on

Retests about every 12 weeks.

Start with your evaluation

What we measure: Pain-free grip strength, maximum grip strength, elbow and wrist range of motion, and a tennis elbow questionnaire (PRTEE).

The research behind this plan

This example follows Lucado AM, et al. Lateral Elbow Pain and Muscle Function Impairments. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2022;52(12):CPG1-CPG111.

An example only. Your evaluation sets your actual plan, and you move on when you pass each step, not by the calendar. Force plate and 1080 testing at Lubbock and Colleyville. Irving uses clinical strength and movement tests.

Colleyville and Irving accept insurance and cash pay. Lubbock is cash pay only for now. Each step, where it’s available and how to pay are on one page.

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Our Team

Why athletes trust us

Our clinicians are licensed physical therapists and athletic trainers with degrees in their field. They treat all types of injuries, not just one sport.

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  • Licensed and degreed

    Physical therapists and athletic trainers trained to care for injuries of every kind.

  • Experience at every level

    Years of working with athletes, from youth sports to college and lifelong competitors.

  • Tested, then retested

    Objective testing shows where you start, and retests show how you are progressing.

  • Built around your training

    Your plan fits your sport, your schedule, and what you want to get back to.

FAQ

Court Sports Questions

Yes. Junior and school players, league and recreational players, and lifelong players all start the same way: an evaluation, a baseline, and a plan built around how you play.

No. Healthy athletes start with Assess to set a baseline, then keep building in Perform. If something hurts or you're coming back from surgery, Recover comes first. Insurance at Colleyville and Irving; cash pay at all three clinics.

Any of our three. Hands-on care, strength training, and clinical return-to-play testing are at Lubbock, Colleyville, and Irving. Force plate testing, Normatec, and localized cryotherapy are at Lubbock and Colleyville; Lubbock has the 1080 Quantum and Colleyville has the 1080 Sprint. Irving refers patients to Lubbock or Colleyville for force plate and 1080 testing.

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An injury and performance evaluation at our Lubbock, Colleyville, or Irving clinic. Personalized care focused on recovery, strength and performance. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in.

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