Sidelined, Playing Through It, Or Worried You're Next? Let's Keep You On The Pickleball Court.
A free class for pickleball players who had to stop, the ones playing through pain, and anyone who's watched a friend get hurt and wondered if they're next. Achilles and calf, the outer elbow, shoulder, knee, low back. Where each one actually comes from, why it keeps coming back, and how to get back on the court and stay there. In person only.
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What You'll Walk Away With
Three things you'll get out of the 90 minutes.
Where your injury actually starts
Your elbow hurts. The problem is often your shoulder, your grip, or the way you swing when you're tired. We'll walk through all five and show you how to trace each one back upstream.
What it takes to heal tissue
Strengthening is real, it matters, and I prescribe it every day. What it can't do by itself is repair a tendon that's been breaking down for a year. Something has to treat the tissue itself, and we'll show you what we use and what the research behind it says.
Something to do on Thursday
You'll walk out that night with an actual next step, whether that's getting back on the court or stepping on it for the first time.
In-person class: no recording will be sent.
These classes get interactive fast. People start describing their own surgery, their injury history, the shot they stopped hitting two years ago. Nothing from that room goes out afterward, to anybody. There's no replay link and nothing to catch up on later. The tradeoff is that you have to show up, and what you get is the version that stays in the room.
Sound Familiar?
Come if any of this is you.
Some people play five mornings a week. Some bought a paddle in the spring and haven't used it yet. Most of the people who come to these classes are somewhere in their late forties to sixties, and you don't need to be good at pickleball to be in the room.
You stopped playing because of an injury and you're not sure which shot will set it off again.
Your elbow hurts picking up a coffee cup, and you've started playing with a strap on it.
You want to start playing but haven't done anything this quick on your feet in twenty years.
Somebody told you to rest it for six weeks. You did. It came back.
The first game is stiff and the next morning is worse.
Nothing hurts yet. You want to still be playing at 75, and you'd rather prepare for that now.
Why Nothing Has Stuck
Here's what you've probably already tried.
None of this was a bad idea. Most of it is what any reasonable person would do, and some of it I would have told you twenty years ago. It just doesn't do the one thing an injured tendon needs.
Rest
Six weeks off. It feels better. You go back to open play and by the second week it's back.
The elbow strap
I'm not going to talk you out of the strap. For some people it takes the edge off enough to keep playing, and that has value. It doesn't touch why the tendon is angry in the first place.
Ibuprofen before you play
Two pills in the parking lot so you can get through three games. At some point it's worth asking what that is covering up.
Cortisone
This is where I'll take a side. For a tendon problem, I think cortisone gets handed out too easily. It is very good at making pain go away for a while, and I understand why people want that. But it doesn't build tissue, and I've seen players walk in two or three shots deep, wondering why the elbow is worse than when they started.
Physical therapy that was mostly a sheet of exercises
Fifteen minutes with a clinician, then bands and a printout.
How We Actually Treat It
We Don't Just Treat Around The Problem. We Heal The Source, From The Start.
Three things, running at the same time, starting at visit one.
Hands
A doctor's hands on you for 30 to 60 minutes. Finding what's stiff, what's compensating, and what your swing has been working around.
Exercise
Loading built for your body and the way you play. This is the part that addresses the cause: the footwork, the weak link, the shoulder that lets the elbow do too much. It's most of what rehab is, and we take it seriously.
Regen
EMTT and focused shockwave, aimed at the source: the damaged tissue. No needles and no downtime.
Why we start regenerative therapy at visit one instead of waiting for you to plateau.
A lot of clinics that own this equipment save it for later. Try the usual things for two months, and if you're still hurting, bring out the machine. I think that's backwards, and it's the single biggest thing I'd change about how these injuries get managed. Hands and exercise work on the cause. They rebuild strength and movement around the problem. What they can't do by themselves is repair a degenerated tendon at the cellular level. That's the source, it needs its own tool, and every week it goes untreated is a week that tissue sat there. So we run all three from the first visit. We call that the Regenerative Stack.
What's At Stake
Nobody quits pickleball all at once.
It goes one piece at a time. You stop going to the net. Then you stop playing the second session. Then you're somebody who used to play.
Your Presenters
Two of us are teaching this one.
Ninety minutes, twelve seats, and the two doctors who would actually be treating you.
Dr. Jason Han, DPT
Doctor of Physical Therapy, Board Certified Sports Clinical Specialist, former U.S. National Team in Taekwondo. I competed at a level where nobody tells you to rest and hope. You get a diagnosis, a plan, and the best tools available, and it starts that week. Then I opened a clinic and found out that's not how most people get treated. Most of the pickleball players we see waited months before coming in, and most were treated one piece at a time. That's the gap this class is about.
Dr. Wayne Wu, DPT
Wayne is the one who won't let a case go. He is genuinely obsessed with the why behind somebody's pain and he keeps digging well past the point where most clinicians would have started treating something. If your injury keeps coming back, he is exactly the person you want looking at you, because a recurring injury is a diagnostic problem before it is a treatment problem. He's covering the cause side: where these five injuries actually start.
The player we see over and over.
He picked up pickleball at 58 and was playing five mornings a week by summer. The outer elbow started up in the fall. He tried a strap, then a month off, then a cortisone shot that bought him about six weeks. By the time he came in he had stopped playing with his usual group, because he didn't want to be the one who had to sit out mid-game. Nobody had looked at his shoulder, his grip, or how much his footwork fell apart late in a session. We treated the tendon and the pattern at the same time, starting at the first visit.
A composite, not one patient. Different people, same story, and we hear some version of it most weeks.
30 to 60 minutes with an actual doctor. The whole session. Every session. This is the thing patients notice first.
EMTT and focused shockwave in the building. Focused, not only radial, and there's a real difference.
We test before we recommend.
Balance and movement screening. Before you start playing, or before you go back.
PT, chiropractic, regen, hyperbarics, testing. One roof, one team.
Pro-level standards for people who aren't pros. That's why I built the place.
What You'll Learn
The Five Things We'll Cover
Yes, there's some science in here. The point is what it means for your body and your game.
The five injuries, and where each one really comes from
Achilles and calf, the outer elbow (the one everybody calls pickleball elbow), shoulder, knee, and low back. For each injury, we'll show you where it tends to start, which is often somewhere other than where it hurts.
Source and Cause
The cause is how you move and how you load. The source is the tissue that's actually damaged. Treat one and skip the other and you get a player who feels great for six weeks and then doesn't. The whole class runs on this.
What EMTT and focused shockwave do to a tendon
Plain English, no hype, including where the evidence is strong and where it's thinner. What it feels like, how many sessions, whether you can keep playing through it, and how to tell if you're a candidate. Plenty of people aren't, and we'll tell you that in the room.
Falls, balance, and your wrists
Pickleball is quick, and a fall usually lands on a wrist. We'll show you a simple way to check your balance and what to work on if it's not where you want it.
Getting on the court, or back on it
For the player coming back from an injury and the one who hasn't started yet: how to build up to it, what to warm up, and when a twinge is worth getting looked at.
Included With Your Seat
You also walk out with over $700 worth of stuff.
Everyone who registers and shows up gets all of it. Nothing to buy at the door.
Free access to The Longevity Class, our online program
Self-paced, yours for as long as you want it. How to train, eat, and recover for the decades ahead.
One free 30-minute Discovery Session
Sit down one on one with one of our doctors and talk through what's going on with your body, or what you want to be ready for. No obligation.
Health Expert News, special edition
The issue about how I got from competing to building this place. Take it home.
Total value: $715. Your cost: $0.
No replay and no "we'll send you the link" afterward. If you want the room, you have to be in the room.
Proof
You'll hear real cases, not a wall of quotes.
We'd rather walk you through actual players we've treated and let you ask about them than hand you a page of five-star reviews.
Real patient stories and case studies
We'll go through actual cases from our own clinic. What was wrong, what we found upstream, what we did about it, and how long it took. Including the ones that didn't go the way we expected, because those are usually the more useful ones to hear.
Ask your questions out loud
Twelve people in the room. You can describe your own elbow or knee and get an answer from the doctor who'd actually be treating it. If one of our patients happens to be there that night, ask them instead.
Or just read the last ten years
300+ five-star reviews on Yelp and 150+ on Google. They're public, we don't curate them, and they'll tell you more than anything we could write here.
⚠️ Only 12 Seats Available
Twelve seats, so you can describe your own injury out loud and get an answer from the doctor who'd treat it. When it's full, it's full.
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Thursday, October 22nd at 6:00pm
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