Cameron Berry is a physical therapist at Physio+, treating patients at Fusion Lindale and FIT Tyler. He earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy from UT Southwestern in 2023 and treats rotator cuff repairs, ACL and athletic injuries, and weightlifting injuries with manual therapy and dry needling. He coaches travel softball in the Lindale league.
Shoulders, knees, and barbells. His caseload centers on rotator cuff repairs, ACL injuries and the rest of the athletic injury list, and the strains people collect in the weight room. Those are the cases he asks for.
Post surgical rotator cuff work is the most protocol driven job in an orthopedic caseload, and that is part of why he likes it. The repair heals on a timeline the surgeon sets, so the work is to load exactly what the shoulder can take at week four, week eight, and week twelve, and not one rep past it. Patients experience that as slow, unglamorous progress. Unglamorous is correct after a repair.
ACL rehab is the other end of the same skill. The constraint there is not tissue caution, it is honesty about capacity: quad strength, single leg control, hop symmetry, and changing direction without thinking about the knee first. Those get measured rather than assumed, and Cameron says so out loud when the numbers are not there yet.
Weightlifting injuries get treated as a technique and dosing problem until proven otherwise. A low back that only complains on the third set of deadlifts, or a shoulder that only bites at the bottom of the bench, is usually reporting something about bar path, bracing, or how fast load went up. The clinic sits inside a gym, so the retest happens on the actual bar instead of a resistance band. Background reading lives on the shoulder pain and sports injuries pages.
Manual therapy and dry needling first, to make a guarded joint or muscle willing to move. Then loaded exercise, progressed until you no longer need him in the room.
Hands on work has a specific job in his plans. It buys range, it settles a protective muscle, and it makes the next twenty minutes of exercise possible. It is the opener, not the treatment. Dry needling gets used the same way: a thin monofilament needle into a tight, irritable muscle to drop tone quickly so the strength work that follows actually lands. What it feels like and who it suits is covered on the dry needling page.
Everything after that is progression. Load climbs as tolerance climbs, the exercises start looking less like rehab and more like training, and the home program gets shorter instead of longer, because the target is fewer visits, not more.
Ask him what he is actually trying to accomplish and the answer is short: teaching patients the long term tools to get them back to independent management of their symptoms, and how to avoid future issues. That is the whole plan. He wants you to know which exercise to reach for when the shoulder gets cranky eight months from now, without calling anyone.
A volleyball player came in with a hamstring injury and was back to full workouts after two visits. Cameron brings it up for what it says about timing, not because two visits is the normal number.
The mechanism was ordinary, the kind of hamstring a jumping and landing sport produces regularly. What made it fast was that it got examined early, the exam ruled out the findings that would have changed the plan, and treatment started that same visit instead of after two weeks of waiting to see whether it settled on its own. Manual work, targeted needling, a specific loading progression, then a retest against the demands the sport actually makes.
Most cases take longer than that, and he will tell you so at the evaluation rather than after. The lesson is not that hamstrings resolve in two sessions. It is that the injuries seen early tend to need the least done to them.
Doctor of Physical Therapy from UT Southwestern in 2023, a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from the University of North Texas in 2020, and three years in practice. He joined Physio+ in 2025.
The letters after his name: PT and DPT for the doctorate and the license, CSCS for the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist credential, and SMTC. The CSCS is the reason the barbell cases land with him. It is the credential built around programming load, and it is exactly the skill set a physical therapy clinic operating inside a gym should carry.
He holds Texas physical therapist license number 1387783. You can confirm it yourself through the Texas licensure verification search. Board certification is a separate specialty credential and Cameron does not hold one. Two clinicians on this team do, and the team page names them.
On why he went into the field at all, the answer is plain: an interest in the human body and how it works mechanically, and the chance to use that to improve other people's lives. Simpler than most versions of that story, and it shows up in how much explaining he does at the table.
He grew up in Flower Mound, Texas, and his family relocated to East Texas. His kids attend Lindale ISD, the family attends LifeSource church, and he coaches and plays in the local Lindale travel softball league.
The rest of his time goes outdoors: gardening, homesteading, and a standing list of home improvement projects. That matters clinically more than it sounds like it should. A therapist whose weekends involve carrying, digging, lifting, and coaching has a working definition of back to normal for people who do the same things, and a softball season keeps him around throwing shoulders and sprinting hamstrings all year.
He sees patients at both clinics: Fusion Lindale, 140 E Eagle Spirit Dr, Lindale, TX 75771, and FIT Tyler, 2259 Broussard Street, Tyler, TX 75701. Call or text 903.492.5215, email hello@physioplustx.com, or book online. New evaluations are often available the same week.
Texas direct access law lets a doctor of physical therapy evaluate and treat you without a physician referral, so you can book with him directly. The direct access guide covers the mechanics. Your first visit is one on one with Cameron: an exam, a working diagnosis, a written plan, and treatment the same day.
Read the rest of the roster on the team page, or read up on what he treats most: shoulder pain, sports injuries, and dry needling.
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