As a sports physical therapist and strength and conditioning specialist, Dr. Ryan Johnson is committed to helping athletes not only recover from injury, but return prepared for the demands of their sport. His approach combines the most up-to-date evidence-based physical therapy with biomechanical analysis, strength and conditioning, and performance training.

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Dr. Johnson's experience spans youth, collegiate, and professional sports, including athletes from the NFL, NBA, CBA, PGA, and LPGA. He has been involved in four NFL Combine and offseason training cycles and two NBA Combine programs, with experience at nationally recognized performance and sports rehabilitation organizations including EXOS, Bommarito Performance Systems, and Alkeme Sports Rx. He earned his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of Miami after studying biochemistry and chemistry at the University of Washington and is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS). At Elite Sports Clinic, his goal is to bring that same elite-level standard of rehabilitation, biomechanical analysis, and performance development to every athlete helping them return to competition stronger, more confident, and better prepared to perform.

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His methodology emphasizes progressive overload, force production and absorption, impulse, quality of sport movement, and purposeful exercise selection designed around the actual forces, positions, joint-specific velocities, and time constraints athletes encounter in competition. Guided by current research and clinical reasoning, these principles are integrated into sprinting, change of direction, return-to-play, and strength development.