Physical therapy in 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.
Serving Fort Collins, Old Town, Timnath, Windsor, Loveland, Wellington, Laporte, and Severance. No physician referral required.
Denver time
- Mon – Thu
- 7:30am – 6:30pm
- Fri
- 7:30am – 4pm
- Sat
- 8am – 1pm
- Sun
- Closed
Above the bookshop on the east side of Linden, halfway between Walnut and Jefferson. Green door, brass number 218, one flight up. Ring the bell if it is before 8am and the street door has not been unlocked yet.
DirectionsAbout this clinic
We opened in Fort Collins because of a referral pattern we could not serve properly from ninety minutes away: adolescent athletes, in volume, with growth-plate injuries being managed as though they were adult tendon problems. Priya Raghunathan came to build that line and it is now the largest paediatric caseload in northern Colorado.
The rest of the clinic looks like a college town's does — CSU club sport, throwing elbows every spring, and a large contingent of adult runners on the Poudre Trail. The waiting area has a proper kids' corner rather than a token basket of toys, because a twelve-year-old's siblings have to sit through this too.
What’s different here
- Largest paediatric and adolescent caseload in the group
- Saturday mornings run long in season, for club athletes who cannot miss school
- Direct relationships with eleven high-school and club programmes in Larimer County
Free two-hour street parking on Linden, and the Old Town parking structure on Remington validates for three hours — bring the ticket in. Saturday mornings are farmers'-market busy; leave ten extra minutes.
The MAX BRT Old Town station is a six-minute walk. Transfort routes 2, 8, and 81 all stop within three blocks.
- Private treatment room
- Force plate & handheld dynamometry
- 240fps gait treadmill
- Step-free access from the lot
- Spanish spoken on site
- Kids' waiting corner
- After-school appointment blocks
What Fort Collins treats.
5 of the group's six service lines run here. The gaps are deliberate rather than accidental, and the clinic that does run them is one click away.
Sports rehab & return to sport
Getting you back to the actual sport, with a number that says you're ready.
Full descriptionPost-surgical recovery
Protocol-faithful rehab that talks to your surgeon, from week one to discharge.
Full descriptionRunning & gait analysis
240fps video, a treadmill, and a plan that doesn't just say 'rest'.
Gait analysis here runs on the Poudre Trail as often as on the treadmill — Eloise Tran will happily take the second half of the session outdoors when the weather permits.
Full descriptionWork-injury & industrial rehab
Modified duty that keeps you earning, and a return-to-work letter we write ourselves.
Full descriptionPaediatric & adolescent PT
For growing athletes, whose injuries follow completely different rules.
Fort Collins is where the group's paediatric protocols are written. Priya Raghunathan and Theo Castellanos both hold dedicated after-school blocks from 3:30pm so a young athlete does not have to miss a class to be treated.
Full description
Who you'll see at Fort Collins.
You get one of these people for the full hour, every visit — and the same one for your whole plan of care. Several of them also cover another clinic, so a move mid-plan doesn't mean starting again with a stranger.
Priya 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.
Fort Collins·Longmont
Coaches U14 hockeyEloise Tran
Physical Therapist, Pelvic & Postpartum
Eloise splits her week between Fort Collins and Boulder and carries the group's postpartum return-to-running caseload. Board-certified in women's health, she is blunt about the thing nobody tells new parents: six weeks is a surgical clearance, not a training clearance, and the gap between them is about four months of actual work.
Fort Collins·Boulder
Open-water swimmerTheo Castellanos
Physical Therapist
Theo covers the CSU and high-school athlete flow in Fort Collins: throwing elbows in spring, ankles and knees through the autumn, and a steady year-round load of adolescent overuse. Board-certified in sports and unusually willing to phone a coach directly about a training volume he does not like.
Fort Collins
Climbs at Horsetooth
Ask for a time at Fort Collins.
The clinic is pre-filled — you only need to change it if you would rather be seen somewhere else, and the service list will change with it.
Your first visit
Bring the boring paperwork
Photo ID, insurance card, and your referral or surgical protocol if you have one. If you do not have a referral, come anyway — Colorado is a direct-access state.
Dress for the joint
Shorts for anything below the waist, a tank or sports bra for shoulders and necks. If you are here about running, bring the shoes you actually run in, worn and unwashed.
Ninety minutes for the evaluation
The first appointment is longer than the rest. History, hands-on exam, baseline testing on the plate and the dynamometer, and you leave with the plan and the discharge criteria in writing.
You will start treatment that day
Nobody gets evaluated and sent home with a photocopy. You will do real work in the first hour and leave with two or three things to do before the next visit — not a booklet of twelve.
Anyone under eighteen needs a parent or guardian present for the evaluation and to sign consent. After that, plenty of our sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds drive themselves — with written consent on file, that is fine by us.
Every clinic is step-free from the parking lot, has an accessible restroom and a private treatment room, and has at least one height-adjustable table. Say the word when you book and we will hold a ground-floor bay. English and Spanish at every clinic. ASL interpretation with five business days' notice, at no cost to you.
Who drives to Fort Collins.
Most of this clinic’s patients come from Fort Collins, Old Town, Timnath and the surrounding towns. If you are further out, it is still worth ringing — we’d rather tell you honestly that another Foothold clinic, or someone else entirely, is a better use of your time.
- Fort Collins
- Old Town
- Timnath
- Windsor
- Loveland
- Wellington
- Laporte
- Severance
In network with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Kaiser (referred), TRICARE West, Colorado Medicaid, and Medicare Part B. We verify your benefits before the first visit and tell you the number — visit cost, deductible remaining, visit limit — in writing before you owe anything.
Questions before you book at Fort Collins?
Ring (970) 555-0187 and someone at this clinic — not a call centre — will pick up. Or send the group a message and it will reach the desk that can actually answer it.
Foothold Physical Therapy is a therapist-owned physical therapy group serving Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, Longmont, and Golden — the Front Range from the Poudre to Clear Creek.