A classical statue of Atlas, seen from behind

Pocatello, Idaho

Rehab and performance in the same building.

Most athletes get discharged from physical therapy at “it doesn’t hurt anymore” and sent back to the sport that broke them. At ATLAS the clinic and the weight room are thirty feet apart, and the athlete never feels the seam.

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Kennon Smith seated in a squat rack on the ATLAS training floor

Performance Development

Performance

Programming for athletes who intend to play at the next level, and testing honest enough to tell them where they actually stand. Force plates, timing gates, and sprint and change-of-direction mechanics that are coached rather than conditioned.

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Blaire Zikratch treating an athlete’s knee at ATLAS

Performance Health

Rehabilitation

Physical therapy for people who have somewhere to get back to. We evaluate, we treat, and then we load it — because the last phase of rehab is the sport, not the table. You may not need a referral to see us — check with your insurance, or give us a call and we’ll check it for you.

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For Parents

Understanding Pain in the Youth Athlete

A 132-page guide to reading pain in a young athlete — whether to play, what to watch for, and who to call. The conversation Blaire has in the clinic every week, written down so families have it before they need it. $39, instant download, printable checklists included.

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TheOperatingSystem

You should never feel like you’re being handed between departments. One team, one plan, start to finish.

Consultation

A long conversation before anything else. History, injury history, training history, sleep, workload, school, what the athlete actually wants. Not an intake form.

The Performance Blueprint

One integrated plan covering both halves. You see the whole plan, the schedule and the cost before you commit to any of it.

Training & performance health

Daily execution, with the coaching side and the clinical side talking constantly. Things get adjusted before they become problems.

Reassessment

Objective retesting on a schedule. The numbers either moved or they didn’t, and we tell you which.

The long game

Through high school, into college, into whatever comes after. Athletes come back here in the offseason, and they come back here as adults.

Every session, every athlete

Knows what today’s objective is
Understands why this phase exists
Leaves with a clear next step

Force plates and timing gates don’t lie.

A great deal of training is run on how the athlete felt that day. We’d rather know.

VALD force plates

How much force you produce, how fast you produce it, how well you absorb it — left side against right.

VALD timing gates

Acceleration and top speed, to the hundredth.

Biodex isokinetic dynamometry

The clinical standard for knee and hip strength testing, and the measurement most athletes never get. We use it for both testing and training.

The ZtreadZ

A treadmill that inclines to forty percent, runs its belt backward, and takes a sled push on the same platform — with gait sensors sampling a thousand times a second. We bought the first one they built.

The ARPwave

A direct current device — DC, the same kind of current your own electrical system runs on — that speeds healing and recovery.

Sprint & change-of-direction mechanics

Coached, on film and on the track, not left to conditioning.

A leg strapped into the Biodex dynamometer during a strength test at ATLAS — A knee strength test on the Biodex.

An athlete running on the ZtreadZ at a steep incline — The ZtreadZ, climbing.

An athlete accelerating out of a cut toward a lit VALD timing gate on the turf at ATLAS — Acceleration out of a cut, through the gates.

Every athlete is tested, retested, and shown their own numbers. An athlete who can see that their left leg produces twelve percent less force than their right understands the next eight weeks of work without needing to be sold on them.

This is the standard the next level is already using. Most athletes in this part of the state meet it for the first time at a college combine, and find out something they could have fixed two years earlier.

The Operating System isn’t a theory we’re trying out on your fourteen-year-old. It’s what the professional and collegiate athletes who train here are already on — scaled, not simplified.

Young athletes training on the floor at ATLAS

Who trains here

Middle and high school athletes

The bulk of what we do, in and out of season — with the testing to tell them honestly where they stand.

Post-operative patients

A large part of what we do. The second half of recovery — where the goal stops being pain-free and starts being ready to play.

Collegiate athletes

Home for breaks, or rehabbing an in-season injury.

Professional athletes

Offseason build, in-season maintenance, year after year.

Adults who still compete

And adults who just want to keep doing what they do.

Younger athletes, from about ten

Whether a ten- or twelve-year-old is ready depends more on the athlete than the birthday. Call and we’ll tell you honestly.

The people

Blaire Zikratch standing behind a treatment table at ATLAS

Blaire Zikratch, DPT, MSAT

Owner, Founder

BS in Biology, 2008. DPT, 2011. MSAT, 2016. All from Idaho State. Practicing as a team with Kate since 2011.

Dry needling licensed & certified · Spinal manipulation certified · Titleist Performance Institute trained

Kennon Smith

Founding Director of Performance

A BA in Psychology, and currently completing a Masters in Performance through ALTIS.

EXOS Performance Specialist · ALTIS coursework

Treyshon Malone

Assistant Performance Coach

Professional long jumper. BA in Sociology.

Christian “Freddy” Fredericksen, MHA

Administration

Record-setting receiver at Idaho State, later in the CFL. Masters of Healthcare Administration.

Kate Youngblood

Physical Therapist Assistant

Trained at Idaho State, class of 2013. Practicing as a team with Blaire since 2011.

The ATLAS building from the air, the Pocatello foothills behind it

Come see the place.

Everything starts with an evaluation — performance or rehab. Call, or send a note and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

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Find us

4133 N Garton Ln
Pocatello, ID 83204

Rehab clinic

Mon & Wed 11am – 7pm
Thu & Fri 11am – 6pm
Closed Tue, Sat & Sun

Performance training

By appointment, Mon – Sat