Next opening
Tue 7:30a
Initial eval · 60 min
MCDr. Maya Chen, DPT
Cascade Physical Therapy — Bend, Oregon
Get back to the trail.
One-on-one physical therapy for runners, riders and lifters. A plan built around your comeback date — not a template.
- Doctor-owned
- No referral needed in Oregon
- Direct pay & HSA
Range of motion
↑ from 96° · week 4
Marathon #6, eight months post-ACL.
Jenna R. · Bend, OR
87%
of our runners return to full mileage in 12 weeks
Weekly load
Return-to-run plan, week 4
Drag the floating panels around — they stay where you leave them
Conditions
What we treat
Mostly sport and load injuries. If it hurts when you run, ride, climb, ski or lift, it is probably on this list.
Runner's knee & ITB
Lateral knee pain that shows up at mile three and stays. We fix the hip, the cadence and the downhill volume — not just the knee.
Post-op ACL & meniscus
Week two through week forty, on your surgeon's protocol. Ends with a return-to-sport test, not a handshake.
Rotator cuff & climber's shoulder
Pulley pain, painful overhead reach, that dead-arm feeling two moves into a steep route. Loaded, not rested into oblivion.
Low back & lifting injuries
Deadlift twinges, disc flare-ups, the back that seizes on rack pulls. The bar keeps moving; we change what is on it.
Ankle sprains & instability
A third sprain is not bad luck. Balance work, calf strength and trail-specific drills on uneven ground.
Tendinopathy
Achilles, patellar and gluteal tendons. Slow heavy loading with the numbers written down and retested every two weeks.
Method
Assess → Rebuild → Return
Three phases, and you always know which one you are in. So does your coach, if you have one.
01
Assess
The first visit is sixty minutes and it is all assessment and hands-on work. We watch you move — gait, squat, single leg, and whatever reproduces the pain — then test strength and range against the other side so we have numbers instead of impressions. You leave knowing what is irritated, what caused it, and roughly how many weeks it takes.
02
Rebuild
Two to four exercises at a time, loaded at a percentage we pick and write down. Most people keep training through this block: we modify volume rather than stopping, because detraining is its own injury. We retest every two weeks and change the plan when the numbers say to, not when the calendar does.
03
Return
The last block looks like your sport. Runners get a graded return-to-run with paces and weekly mileage. Lifters get their main lifts back to target loads. Nobody is discharged on a feeling — you take a return-to-sport test, and if you fail a part of it we tell you which part and what to do about it.
60 minutes, one-on-one
Same therapist every visit. Never doubled up with another patient.
Full movement screen
Gait, squat, single leg, and the movement that actually hurts.
Video, side by side
Your run or your lift, slowed down, on the screen next to you.
A plan on paper
You leave holding it. Emailed the same afternoon as well.
Outcomes
The numbers, published.
Recalculated every quarter from our own chart notes. When one of them drops, we say so.
87%
of our runners return to full mileage within twelve weeks of the first visit
12 weeks
median return-to-run for post-op knees, counted from the day we start
4.9★
from 217 athletes across four years on Galveston Avenue
Team
Who you'll see
Two clinicians, both owners. You pick one and you keep them for the whole plan.
Dr. Maya Chen, DPT
Runners & endurance
Maya spent six years in a sports medicine group in Portland before opening Cascade in 2019. She has run Boston three times, which is mostly relevant because it means she has already made every training mistake she now talks people out of.
- Running gait analysis
- Post-op knee
- Boston x3
Dr. Sam Whitaker, DPT, CSCS
Lifters & climbers
Sam skied nordic for Montana State and coached collegiate strength for four seasons after that. He works with barbell athletes and climbers, and he will find something you can keep loading while the painful thing settles down.
- Barbell mechanics
- Shoulder & elbow
- Ex-collegiate nordic
Pricing
What it costs
Direct pay, posted up front. No surprise bill six weeks later, no co-pay roulette.
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Initial eval · 60 min
Movement screen, hands-on assessment, baseline strength and range numbers, and a written plan you take with you.
$145
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Follow-up · 45 min
One-on-one the whole time, same therapist. Retest, adjust load, hands-on work as needed.
$110
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Return-to-run package · 8 sessions Best value
The full rebuild-and-return block, booked in one go. Saves $90 against eight single visits and holds your slots.
$790
About insurance. We are a direct-pay clinic, so we do not bill insurance directly. You get an itemised superbill after every visit that you can submit to your plan for out-of-network reimbursement, and HSA and FSA cards work here. If you would rather use in-network benefits, tell us and we will point you to two clinics in Bend that take them.
Visit
Find us
Ground floor on Galveston, three blocks from the river path. Bring shoes you actually train in.
- Address
- 1240 NW Galveston Ave, Suite 2
Bend, OR 97703 - Hours
- Mon–Thu 7:00a – 6:00p
Fri 7:00a – 2:00p
Sat by appointment - Phone
- (541) 555-0139
- front@cascadept.com
- Parking
- Street parking on Galveston. The lot behind the building is free after 9a.
Get started
Book an eval
Tell us what hurts and when you want to be back. We will send two or three times that fit.
Request received.
We'll reply today or tomorrow morning — usually with two or three eval times to pick from. If it is more urgent than that, call (541) 555-0139 and Maya or Sam will pick up between patients.