Cascade Physical Therapy — Bend, Oregon

Get back to the trail.

One-on-one physical therapy for runners, riders, climbers and lifters. Sixty minutes with a doctor of physical therapy, and a plan built around your comeback date — not a template.

  • Most insurance accepted
  • No referral needed in Oregon
  • Self-pay rates posted

Drag the panels. They drift back to rest on their own.

Conditions

What we treat

Sport and load injuries, almost exclusively. If it hurts when you run, ride, climb, ski or lift, it is on this list — and if it is not, we will tell you on the phone rather than book you in.

  • Runner's knee & IT band

    Lateral knee pain that shows up at mile three and stays. We treat 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. It ends with a return-to-sport test, not a handshake.

  • Rotator cuff & climber's shoulder

    Pulley pain, a painful overhead reach, that dead-arm feeling two moves into a steep route. Loaded carefully, 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 genuinely uneven ground.

  • Achilles & patellar tendinopathy

    Slow heavy loading, with the numbers written down and retested every two weeks so you can see the tendon getting stronger.

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.

Not sure which phase you are in?

That is exactly what the first sixty minutes are for. Tell us what hurts and we will tell you honestly how many weeks it takes.

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Outcomes

The numbers, published.

Recalculated every quarter from our own chart notes. When one of them drops, we say so on this page.

87%

of our runners are back to full mileage within twelve weeks of the first visit

12weeks

median return-to-run for post-op knees, counted from the day we start

94%

finish the whole plan instead of drifting off at week three

4.9out of 5

from 217 athletes across four years on Galveston Avenue

Your comeback has a date. Let's work backwards from it.

Tell us the race, the trip or the season opener. We will tell you what is realistic before you pay for anything.

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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

Every rate is posted below. Most insurance is accepted, and if you would rather skip the paperwork the self-pay price is the price.

  • Initial eval · 60 min

    Movement screen, hands-on assessment, baseline strength and range numbers, and a written plan you take with you.

    $145

  • Follow-up · 45 min

    One-on-one the whole time, same therapist. Retest, adjust load, hands-on work as needed.

    $110

  • 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

Most insurance accepted · self-pay rates listed above

  • In network with Regence, PacificSource, Providence, Aetna and Medicare.

  • We check your benefits before you come in and email you the exact number you will owe per visit.

  • Out of network or no plan? The rates above are what you pay. HSA and FSA cards work here, and we send an itemised superbill either way.

  • No surprise bill six weeks later. If our estimate turns out to be wrong, we honour the estimate.

Know the number before you book.

Send us your plan details with the form below and we will come back with your per-visit cost and two or three eval times.

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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
Parking
Street parking on Galveston. The lot behind the building is free after 9a.
NW Galveston Ave NW 14th St Drake Park Deschutes River Cascade PT

Get started

Book an evaluation

Tell us what hurts and when you want to be back. We reply with two or three times that fit — and your exact per-visit cost if you add your plan.

No card needed to book, and nothing is charged until your first visit. Prefer the phone? (541) 555-0139.

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