Service
Strength & movement coaching
Strength and movement coaching at Next Move is the step between rehab and full training that most care skips. Dr. Nguyen, the sports chiropractor who does your assessment, writes and progresses your program inside 60-minute one-on-one visits in Orlando: rebuilding the load tolerance the injury took away and correcting the pattern that caused it, until you train without hesitation.
Guided programming that rebuilds capacity after pain, so you leave stronger than before the injury, not just symptom-free.
What it is
Pain-free is the halfway point, not the finish
Most care ends the day your symptoms stop. That’s exactly when re-injury gets set up: the pain is gone, but the tissue can’t yet handle the loads you actually train at. You feel fine, load up, and the cycle restarts.
Strength & movement coaching closes that gap. It’s individualized training strategy from the doctor who diagnosed you: programming that refines your biomechanics and builds real-world strength under load, dosed from your assessment instead of guessed from a template.
It’s not personal training. Progressions are tied to capacity milestones, not calendar weeks, and every block is built around your sport, your equipment, and the injury history that brought you in.
Told to just rest?
Rest calms symptoms. It also quietly deconditions everything else.
Capacity is what actually protects you from re-injury, and capacity is built, not rested into. The way back to training isn’t waiting. It’s loading the right amount, at the right time, with someone watching how you move.
What's included
Programming, capacity, technique
Coaching happens inside your one-on-one visits and carries into the training you do between them.
Guided programming
A written program you actually follow between visits: movements, loads, and progressions individualized to your assessment and updated as you adapt. Never a photocopied exercise sheet.
Capacity after pain
Progressive loading that rebuilds tissue tolerance, from the first pain-free reps back to sport-level demands, so the injured area finishes this process stronger than it started.
Technique under load
Hands-on coaching of the patterns you actually train: squat, hinge, press, gait. We refine the biomechanics so the fault that fed the injury doesn't come back with the weight.
Who it's for
For the ones who want to train again
Anyone told to 'just rest' who wants to actually train again.
You were told to 'just rest' and nobody mapped the way back
You're symptom-free but hesitate every time you load the old injury
You finished physical therapy at 'functional', and functional isn't your standard
You train hard and want programming that respects that
The pathway
Coaching owns the back half
Steps 03 and 04 are where most care quits, and where this service does its work.
Assess & Collaborate
Handled in your exam: the movement assessment tells us exactly which patterns and capacities need work.
Reduce Pain
Treatment quiets symptoms first. You can't build capacity on top of an angry joint.
Fix Your Patterns
Coaching starts here: technique work and targeted loading that correct the faults your assessment found.
Become Resilient
The whole point: individualized programming that keeps progressing until you train without hesitation.
Pricing
No memberships, no packages
Coaching is delivered inside your regular one-on-one visits: flat cash prices, published up front.
New Patient Exam
$150
60 min
A full hour, one-on-one: history, movement assessment, root-cause diagnosis, and your first treatment.
Start hereTreatment Visit
$120
60 min · 30 min for $70
Adjustment plus rehab in every visit: manual therapy, guided movement, and a plan that progresses.
Book a visitNew patients start with the exam so the programming is built on a real assessment. Once you’re rolling, the 30-minute visit works well for program check-ins and progressions.
Going deeper
Training through it: what stays, what changes
The question lifters and runners actually ask isn't "can you fix it." It's "do I have to stop." Usually not entirely. The rule Dr. Nguyen works from: keep everything that doesn't provoke it, modify what does, and remove only what you can't yet do without a flare. For a lifter that might mean pulling from blocks instead of the floor, a neutral-grip press instead of a barbell overhead, or the same lift at a range and load your tissue tolerates today. For a runner it might mean shorter runs, flatter routes, or trading some volume for strength work while the tissue catches up.
There's research behind not shutting everything down. In a randomized trial of people with Achilles tendinopathy, one group kept running and jumping under a pain-monitoring model (pain kept below roughly five out of ten during activity, settled by the next morning, no week-to-week creep) while the other group rested from those activities for six weeks. Both then rehabbed the same way, and the group that kept training did as well as the group that rested. That's one tendon and one study, so it isn't a blanket rule for every injury, but it's why "just rest" is rarely the whole plan here. Your assessment tells us where your lines are.
The lines that matter: pain that stays low during the session, doesn't spike afterward, and is back to baseline by the next morning is generally workable. Pain that climbs rep over rep, lingers into the next day, or shows up earlier each session means the dose is too high, and we pull it back rather than push through. Numbness or tingling, sudden strength loss, a joint that gives way, night pain, or pinpoint bone pain that worsens with impact are different: those need a physician or imaging before any loading plan, and we'll say so.
Between visits you're not guessing. Your written program states the loads, the swaps, and the stop rules, and you report back on how the tissue responded, so each 60-minute visit starts with data instead of a hunch. That's the loop: load, watch, adjust, progress.
Questions
Straight answers
Can I bring the program I already follow, or do you write one from scratch?
Either. If you already have a program you like, bring it. Most of the time the fix is editing what you're doing, not replacing it: swapping one movement, changing a range or a tempo, adding the thing your assessment says is missing. If you don't have a program, you get one written around your goals, your schedule, and where you train, whether that's a full gym, a garage rack, or a set of bands at home.
How is this different from physical therapy or personal training?
Most rehab, whichever profession delivers it, is scoped to a functional baseline: pain down, daily life fine, discharge. Personal training assumes you're already healthy and pushes load. Coaching sits between the two: rehab-grade judgment about what your tissue can take, applied to the training you actually want to do. The doctor who diagnosed you writes the program, watches you move under load, and progresses it from your capacity, not from a calendar.
How long does coaching last, and how do I know when I'm done?
It ends on criteria, not on a number of weeks. Done means you can hit the positions the injury took away, handle the loads your sport or your job asks for, and repeat that when you're tired, without symptoms creeping back the next day. Early on, when treatment and technique work are both happening, visits sit closer together. As the program starts running itself they spread into check-ins, which is what the shorter follow-up visit exists for. Dr. Nguyen sets that cadence at your exam.
Does strength training actually prevent injuries, or is that gym talk?
The evidence is real. A 2014 systematic review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine pooled randomized trials covering more than 26,000 people and found strength training reduced sports injuries to less than a third, while across the prevention programmes overall, overuse injuries were nearly halved and stretching alone showed no protective effect. That's the case for building capacity instead of resting into it. It's population-level data, not a promise for your knee, which is why the programming is individualized to your assessment.
Do I have to be pain-free before coaching starts?
No, and waiting for zero pain is often how people lose months. Coaching starts as soon as your tissue tolerates loading, which for many injuries is early. What changes is the dose: range, load, and volume are set to what you can do without a flare, then progressed. If you're still in the acute stage, treatment leads and coaching follows in the same visit. If you're symptom-free but hesitant, coaching leads from day one.
I don't lift or run. I just want to hike, play pickleball, and pick up my kids without pain. Is coaching for me?
Yes. The label says strength and movement, but the target is capacity for whatever you actually do. A pickleball player needs to change direction and reach overhead without the shoulder complaining. A parent needs to get off the floor holding a squirming toddler. Hiking needs a knee and a hip that tolerate hours of downhill. The assessment looks at the demand you're failing at, and the program builds toward it. You don't need to want a barbell to benefit.
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