Pro Athletes
Trusted by competitors at the highest levels of professional sport, and the same standard of care for everyone who walks through our doors.
Care trusted at the highest level
Our team has been trusted by athletes competing at the highest levels of professional sport, including players from the NFL, NBA, MLB, and PGA Tour. These are competitors whose careers depend on staying healthy, strong, and at the top of their game, and they’ve chosen Rehab Lab to help them get there and stay there.
Working alongside elite athletes sharpens everything we do, and we bring that same standard of care to athletes at every level, from youth and high school programs to weekend warriors, whether you’re chasing a championship or just chasing your kids around the backyard.
NFL · NBA · MLB · PGA Tour
You don’t have to be a pro to be treated like one
The assessment, the hands-on treatment, and the rehab that gets a pro back on the field is the exact approach we use for a desk-job back, a stubborn old injury, or a weekend warrior trying to get back to their sport. Same doctors, same plan, built around your goals.
Questions athletes ask us
Do you only work with professional athletes?
No. The same assessment and rehabilitation model we use with professional athletes is what every patient gets, because the principles do not change with the level of competition. The difference at the top end is testing frequency and how tightly the plan is coordinated, not the quality of the thinking.
What do pro athletes come to you for specifically?
In-season maintenance, return-to-play decisions after injury, and off-season correction of the asymmetries a season creates. The common thread is objective measurement: professionals cannot afford a return-to-play call based on how something feels, and neither can anyone else.
Can you coordinate with a team medical staff?
Yes, and with professional athletes that is normally how it works. We share findings, testing numbers and the loading plan with team physicians, athletic trainers and strength staff so nobody is working from a different sheet. The same applies to a high school athletic trainer.
How do you decide an athlete is ready to return?
With objective force and movement testing comparing the injured side against the healthy one, not with a conversation about how it feels. A limb can feel normal while remaining meaningfully weaker, and that deficit is a known reinjury risk. The number decides.
Can you help me with performance rather than an injury?
Yes. A meaningful share of our work is with athletes who are not injured and want to find the restriction or the asymmetry limiting their output. Testing gives a baseline, and the corrective work targets whatever the testing exposes.
Do you travel to athletes or teams?
Dr. Sam offers concierge travel treatment for patients who need him to come to them, and he sees patients by application only. For everyone else, care runs out of our Wauwatosa and Appleton clinics. Get in touch to ask what is possible.
Guides for athletes
- What force plate testing tells us that an x-ray cannot
- The fall sports injuries we see every season
- Why runner’s knee is not a knee problem
See how we test or sports injury care.
Ready to fix the cause, for good?
Book at our Wauwatosa or Appleton clinic and get a real plan from a doctor who treats you like a teammate.
Wauwatosa · Appleton · No referral needed