Rehab that ends.
Every plan of care gets a finish line at visit one — a number you have to hit, in writing, before we discharge you. Most people hit it in eight or nine visits.
Most clinics are paid to keep you coming. We are paid to make you not need us — so every plan of care has a finish line written on it at visit one, every session is a full hour with one therapist, and we hand you back to your sport, your job, or your kid with a printed plan for keeping it.
No physician referral needed in Colorado. Same-week evaluation slots held at every clinic.
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Three things that are unusual, and are the entire difference.
None of this is a secret. It is just expensive to do, which is why most outpatient clinics have quietly stopped doing it.
One therapist, one hour, every visit
You see the same licensed physical therapist for the full hour, every single appointment. No handoff to an aide after fifteen minutes, no three patients running in parallel. It costs us more per hour and it is the reason people finish in eight visits instead of twenty-four.
We measure, and we show you the numbers
Force-plate asymmetry, hop tests, dynamometry, gait video at 240 frames a second. You get the readouts in your portal at intake, at the midpoint, and at discharge. If the numbers are not moving, the plan changes — that is a conversation we would rather have in week three than in month four.
Load is the medicine
Tissue adapts to what you ask of it. Rest is a phase, not a treatment. Our clinics are built around racks, sleds, and plyo boxes rather than around treatment tables, because the last three weeks of rehab should look uncomfortably like the thing you are going back to.
Six service lines, written once, offered where they belong.
Every clinic runs most of these. Two clinics run a deliberately narrower list — Longmont doesn't treat children, Golden doesn't take work-injury claims — and each clinic's page tells you exactly which.
Sports rehab & return to sport
Getting you back to the actual sport, with a number that says you're ready.
What a plan looks likePost-surgical recovery
Protocol-faithful rehab that talks to your surgeon, from week one to discharge.
What a plan looks likeRunning & gait analysis
240fps video, a treadmill, and a plan that doesn't just say 'rest'.
What a plan looks likeWork-injury & industrial rehab
Modified duty that keeps you earning, and a return-to-work letter we write ourselves.
What a plan looks likePaediatric & adolescent PT
For growing athletes, whose injuries follow completely different rules.
What a plan looks likeStrength & performance
The bridge between 'discharged' and 'actually robust'. Cash-pay, no referral.
What a plan looks like
Five clinics, one standard.
Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, Longmont, and Golden — the Front Range from the Poudre to Clear Creek. Each clinic has its own hours, its own therapists, and its own character — and every one of them holds back same-week evaluation slots.
Boulder
The original clinic, four blocks off the Pearl Street Mall and ten minutes from the Chautauqua trailheads — which is more or less the entire injury profile in one sentence.
- Mon – Thu
- 7am – 7pm
- Phone
- (303) 555-0180
Denver
Our post-surgical clinic. Sited deliberately within fifteen minutes of the orthopaedic groups on 17th and in Cherry Creek, because week-one rehab should not require a highway.
- Mon
- 6:30am – 8pm
- Phone
- (303) 555-0184
Fort Collins
The paediatric and adolescent hub for northern Colorado, two blocks off Old Town Square and inside the catchment of roughly every high-school and club programme between Loveland and the Wyoming line.
- Mon – Thu
- 7:30am – 6:30pm
- Phone
- (970) 555-0187
Longmont
Built for people who work with their hands. Longmont sits among the trades, manufacturing, and agricultural employers of the northern corridor, and the caseload reflects it.
- Mon – Thu
- 6:30am – 5:30pm
- Phone
- (303) 555-0191
Golden
The trail clinic. Two hundred metres from Clear Creek and at the bottom of the road to Apex, Chimney Gulch, and every other reason people in this town end up needing us.
- Mon – Thu
- 7:30am – 6pm
- Phone
- (303) 555-0195
- Compare all five
Every clinic, guaranteed
- Private treatment room available at every clinic
- Force plate and handheld dynamometer at every clinic
- Same-week evaluation slots held back at every clinic
- Direct access — no physician referral required in Colorado
What finishing looks like.
“I came in eleven weeks after an ACL reconstruction convinced I'd lost the season. Dana put me on the plate, showed me a 31% deficit on the left, and told me exactly what number I had to hit to get cleared. I hit it in February. The honesty was the whole thing.”
Marisol Quintero
Midfielder, Front Range United — Boulder clinic
“Twenty-two years framing houses and my shoulder finally quit. Foothold worked with my foreman on modified duty so I never went fully off the clock. Eight visits, back on the nail gun, and they wrote the return-to-work letter themselves.”
Terrence Vaughn
Lead carpenter — Longmont clinic
“My daughter is twelve and had been limping through club volleyball for four months. Priya spent the first visit explaining Osgood-Schlatter to her, not to me. She's playing. She also now knows what a tendon is.”
Anne-Marie Boateng
Parent — Fort Collins clinic
The same therapist, start to finish.
Eleven clinicians across five clinics. Several work at more than one — if you move between Boulder and Golden mid-plan, you can keep the therapist who knows your knee.
Dana Whitlock
Founder & Clinical Director
Dana started Foothold in 900 square feet on Pearl Street after eleven years in a hospital system that wanted sixteen patients a day from her. Board-certified in sports, she still carries a caseload two and a half days a week — mostly post-op knees and the athletes other clinics have already discharged twice. She wrote the group's return-to-sport criteria and refuses to soften them.
Skis badly, on purposeNadia Haddad
Lead Therapist, Denver
Nadia runs the group's busiest post-surgical caseload and is the person our referring surgeons call when a protocol needs interpreting. She spent four years in a joint-replacement service before joining Foothold and brought the habit of writing everything down: the one-page surgeon update that every clinic now sends is hers.
Restores road bikesPriya Raghunathan
Lead Therapist, Fort Collins
Priya built the paediatric line and has seen close to nine hundred young athletes through growth-plate injuries that somebody told them to walk off. She explains the injury to the twelve-year-old rather than over their head to the parent, which sounds like a small thing and is the reason her home-programme adherence is the best in the group.
Coaches U14 hockey
Pick the clinic nearest you and ask for a time.
The front desk rings back within one business day, verifies your benefits before you arrive, and tells you what the visit costs in writing. No referral needed.