Youth Athletes
Keep Your Young Athlete Healthy, Confident, and Game-Ready
If your high‑school athlete is dealing with pain, tightness, or nagging issues that keep coming back, our job is simple: find the real reason they hurt, restore clean movement, and build them back stronger so they can stay on the field, the court, or the track.
Common Youth‑Sport Problems We Help
- Concussions & Safe Return‑to‑Play: Step‑by‑step progressions with provider oversight. No shortcuts.
- Runner’s injuries: Shin splints, IT band, foot/ankle pain. We clean up mechanics, build capacity, and pace training volume.
- Motion‑based shoulder/throwing pain: Shoulder, elbow, overhead patterns. Restore range, strengthen what stabilizes, then build throwing‑specific control.
- Knee pain in sport: Patellar, meniscus, ACL‑related issues. We address hip/core control, landing/decels, and sport patterns.
- Low back & hip pain in athletes: We prefer flexion distraction (gentle, up‑and‑down table‑based movement) over spinal decompression. It helps restore motion without the problems we see from decompression.
- Neck, headache & TMJ in sport: Calm irritated joints and tissue, then reinforce with targeted exercise.
What Treatment Looks Like At Empower
You’ll see why we’re not an assembly-line clinic.

We’ll start with a movement and mobility assessment, then use targeted hands-on care to restore motion and calm irritation like chiropractic adjustments, Active Release Technique, Graston/IASTM, and cupping. We’ll then finish with corrective exercise so the change sticks in real movement.
For stubborn, chronic extremity issues, we may add SoftWave/Shockwave, a non-invasive modality Dr. Croskey uses because it drives blood flow and metabolic activity and reaches deep structures (shoulder/hip/labrum-level depth) without needles or surgery.
Most youth injuries still respond well to conservative care. When we load patterns correctly, supervised resistance training is safe and beneficial for teens.
Why Youth Athletes Choose Empower
Longer, 1:1 Sessions
Young athletes get real time for assessment, hands-on work, and coached exercise.
Elite Sports Experience
Our experience and standard we uphold at the D1 level shape how we treat youth athletes.
Integrated Care Under One Roof
Chiropractic adjustments, performance PT ,and corrective exercise, and more, coordinated.
Evidence First Before Imaging
We follow current guidelines and order imaging only when it would change management.
Ready to Get Your Athlete Back to Confident, Pain-Free Play?
If your child has a new injury, a nagging issue, or needs a smarter plan for a heavy season, we’ve got them. We’ll treat the problem, fix the pattern, and guide the return so they come back confident.
