Most of the ACL reconstruction patients I discharge are high school and college athletes, and several have come to me after surgery at Vanderbilt. Your posting for a sports medicine therapist who can own return-to-sport testing is the work I have been building toward for five years.
At Results Physiotherapy I treat 11 to 13 patients a day and carry a caseload of about 55, mostly post-op knee and shoulder, spine, and running injuries. With two local orthopedic surgeons I put together a return-to-sport battery that combines hop tests, handheld dynamometry and the ACL-RSI, so clearance decisions rest on numbers the surgeon and the athlete can both see. I track outcomes in WebPT, and my knee patients discharged in 2025 improved a median 24 points on the LEFS.
I earned the OCS in 2024 and have supervised two DPT students as an APTA Credentialed Clinical Instructor. My first two years were in acute care at TriStar Skyline, where I learned to screen carefully, and that habit carries into direct access evaluations; I referred three patients to physicians last year for red-flag findings.
I would welcome the chance to observe a clinic day or talk through how your team runs return-to-sport clearance with the surgeons.