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Find the root cause
A deep dive into movement, strength, mobility, and the demands of your sport. We pinpoint exactly what is causing the pain. And why it keeps coming back.
Youth Sports Injuries
Injuries shouldn’t derail a season — or a love for sport. At UpSlope, we help youth athletes recover from injury, build strong movement habits, and return to play with confidence.
We get it
Whether your athlete is dealing with overuse pain, a growth-related injury, or coming back from a bigger setback, we focus on safe progression, long-term health, and performance that lasts. Pain is never just part of the game. It is a signal that something needs attention. We take it seriously.
Diagnosis
Young athletes today train more, specialize earlier, and play longer seasons than ever before. Rapid growth spurts, overuse from year-round sports, poor movement mechanics, strength imbalances, inadequate recovery, and returning to play too quickly are the most common injury drivers. The body is still developing, and it responds differently than an adult body would.
Common Issues We Help With
Growth plate irritation (Sever’s, Osgood-Schlatter’s)
Knee pain and instability
Ankle sprains and foot pain
Shoulder and throwing-related pain
Low back pain
Muscle strains and overuse injuries
Post-surgical rehab
Poor movement mechanics leading to repeat injuries
Here is what we look for.
Most young athletes are told to rest and come back when it stops hurting. For competitive athletes, that cycle repeats every season. We break it.
We find the root cause.
Who we help
We help youth athletes across all sports, from middle school through college, who are dealing with injury, overuse, or movement problems that are limiting their performance.
If any of this sounds familiar.
Whether your athlete is trying to finish the season, prepare for the next level, or simply stay healthy while they grow. We build the movement foundation that makes sport sustainable long term.
You stay in your sport.
What we treat
Should I see a PT?
We treat youth athletes differently — because they are different.
Thorough Movement Assessment
We evaluate how your athlete moves, loads, jumps, lands, runs, and stabilizes — not just where it hurts.
Pain Relief + Safe Recovery
Hands-on care, mobility work, and age-appropriate strength training to reduce symptoms and restore confidence.
Strength & Movement Development
We build:
• Core control
• Balance and coordination
• Proper mechanics
• Sport-specific strength
This creates the foundation for injury resistance as they grow.
Return-to-Play With Confidence
Clear progression. Objective benchmarks.
No guessing. No rushing.
PT is the most effective first step when:
Sports injuries in growing athletes are influenced by growth spurts, movement mechanics, strength imbalances, training volume, and recovery habits. Our approach helps young athletes heal properly while building strength, coordination, and resilience to reduce future injury risk. Most athletes return to their sport safely and confidently, rather than rushing back and dealing with repeat setbacks.
Talk to us first.
The Upslope Method
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A deep dive into movement, strength, mobility, and the demands of your sport. We pinpoint exactly what is causing the pain. And why it keeps coming back.
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Hands-on therapy, targeted mobility, graded loading. You feel relief in the first sessions, not the eighth. And you understand what changed.
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Movement quality is restored. Now we build the foundation that keeps it. Real strength work in the gym to restore tolerance to load.
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Coached back through your sport-specific demands until you train with confidence again.
Patient story
“I'd recommend UpSlope to any kind of athlete. Regardless of your sport, they have someone who knows how to help you get back to it.”
Beki · CrossFit Athlete
Proof
At UpSlope, we pride ourselves on an active approach to rehab. You will never hear us tell you to stop the things you love, because we get it. You want to stay in the gym, on the trail, on the court. Not on the sidelines.
Questions
No. Direct access in Colorado means you can come straight to us. No doctor visit first.
Most overuse and growth-related injuries resolve in 6 to 12 weeks. Post-surgical timelines vary. We will lay out a clear return-to-play progression in the first session.
A 60-minute session where we map the problem and lay out a plan. No commitment, $0 at booking. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you and refer you well.
We treat youth athletes differently because they are different. Age-appropriate loading, sport-specific progressions, and objective return-to-play benchmarks. No guessing. No rushing.
Get started
Stay in your sport, get out of pain, build the body you want.
Quick question?
A doctor of physical therapy will give you a call back within one business day.