PT Gets You Back to Baseline. I Get You Back to Better Than Before.
You finished rehab and you're still not yourself. That's the gap I've spent 25 years filling for Oahu's surfers, paddlers, golfers, and weekend athletes - recover from the injury and build strength at the same time.
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Rehab has a finish line: the day you're "cleared." But cleared isn't recovered. Cleared means the injury site passed a test. It says nothing about the compensation patterns your body built while you were hurt, the strength you lost everywhere else, or the reason you got injured in the first place.
That's why so many athletes reinjure the same spot, or a new one, within months of finishing PT. The injury healed. The system that produced it never changed.
Here's the other thing most rehab gets wrong: they tell you to stop training while you heal. You don't have to. Hurt shoulder? We rehabilitate the shoulder AND train everything else in the same session. The whole body progresses together. You never have to stop moving.
Came to me in his early 30s thinking his career was over, with the Molokai-to-Oahu race three months out. Three months of work. He set the record for the crossing and got sponsored.
Three of four rotator cuff tendons torn. Surgery, then rehab that left him with almost no range of motion or strength. Three to four months with me and he was back in the water, foiling.
A bone marrow donation left her hip so compromised she could barely walk. Two to three months later she was back in the canoe - earning the pacemaker seat, the hardest position on the boat.
Torn shoulder, surgery, a month of PT - and he still couldn't wash his hair or get dressed properly. Three to four months later he was at 100%, back to jumping off his boat and into the water.
Ten years of neck and shoulder pain from a scooter accident. Two months and it was gone. When he later dislocated and separated that shoulder in Japan, the foundation he'd built had him pain-free and running again in under a month.
Lower backs from paddling with a stiff mid-back and hips that stopped rotating, and shoulders worn down by thousands of strokes with the scapula in the wrong place. Ronny and Pasha both came in this way. Both are back in the water. The back half of that story is on the back pain page.
Shoulders, the thoracic spine, and the hips on the side you sit. Paddlers rotate for a living, and when the rotation has to come from the wrong joint, something gives. Travis and Malia are the proof of what the fix looks like.
The lead hip and the lower back, almost always because the swing is being made with the lumbar spine instead of the hips and the thoracic spine. The fix adds distance as a side effect. More on that on the golf page.
Calves and Achilles from the stop-and-start, shoulders from overhead, knees from lunging on a body that lost its hip mobility years ago. The fastest-growing injury list on the island. I wrote a separate page for it.
Koko Head, Diamond Head, the Lanikai pillboxes, and the knees and hips that complain afterward. Usually a foot and hip problem showing up at the knee. The weekend warrior piece explains why it keeps happening to the same people.
Rotator cuff repairs, knee replacements, hip work. Once your surgeon clears you for exercise, this is where you rebuild the strength the operation and the rest took away. David came in at 86 after both knees were replaced. He ended up jogging.
This is for you if you have been discharged from PT and you are still not yourself, you have been cleared but you do not trust the joint, you keep re-injuring the same spot or a new one, you are still wearing the brace months later, or you simply refuse to sit on the couch for three months while one body part heals. It is also for you if you have never been hurt badly and would like to keep it that way.
This is not the right first stop if the injury happened in the last few days and nobody has looked at it, if you suspect a fracture or a full tear, or if you are post-surgery and your surgeon has not yet cleared you for exercise. Get that done first. Then come in, and bring the imaging and the discharge notes if you have them. I read them, and I work with what your doctor and your therapist already found.
20-30 minutes of movement tests designed to fail. Every failure shows me the compensation pattern that caused your injury - and what's standing between you and your sport.
The Unlock Protocol resets your fascial system, reactivates your core, and restores mobility with strength loaded into it so the new range sticks.
Full training on everything that isn't injured, targeted rebuilding on what is. You return to your sport stronger than before you got hurt - that's the standard, not the bonus.
Every session runs the whole system, in the same order. Myofascial release first, to reset the tissue that has been guarding the injury and pulling everything around it out of position. Then core integration, so the deep stabilizers and the glutes come back online before any load goes on. Then mobility, which means opening a range and immediately putting strength into it so the body keeps it. Then we train: real strength work on everything that is not hurt, and careful, progressive rebuilding of what is. We finish with a sequence that drops your nervous system into recovery mode, because healing happens there and not in the middle of a workout.
You leave the first session with a written homework program with photos, and it evolves as you do. Doing it between sessions is what turns three months into a different body instead of a slightly better one. The client stories show what that timeline has looked like for other people, and the About page explains how the method got built in the first place.
398 Puiwa Rd in Nuuanu, about ten minutes from downtown Honolulu, fifteen from Kahala or Kailua, and the Pali drops you almost at the door from the Windward side. Private studio, one person at a time, by appointment only, Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 6:30. Free parking: drive up the driveway and park in the carport. It is 90 minutes, and you will use all of it.
New Year Reset · 5 spots · January 2027
If you're sidelined right now, you could be back in your sport by spring. First time in 25 years I've done this: five people start in January, recover and build strength at the same time, and the tenth session is on me when you commit by December 31. $3,150 for one person, $4,500 for two.
See the New Year ResetCome find out what's actually in the way.
Book Your Free Movement ScreenWhat it costs
The screen is free. If it shows I can help, the program is 10 weeks and includes:
$3,150 one person · $4,500 two people · tenth session on me when you commit by Dec 31.
Prefer to talk? Call or text (808) 444-1834