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About Gardner Sports Physical Therapy

The clinic that treats the cause.

Most clinics manage your symptoms and call it a plan. We built this place to end them: one-on-one, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, every single visit.

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Our Story

This isn’t our story. It’s yours.

Portrait of Bret Gardner, founder of Gardner Sports Physical Therapy

Bret Gardner, PT, DPT, PN1, Founder

Bret Gardner earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Texas State University, then built his career in orthopedic and sports rehab across Texas, Nebraska, and Hawaii before opening Gardner Sports Physical Therapy in Temple.

He’s a multi-sport athlete himself: soccer, boxing, baseball, football, golf, running, basketball, and he uses that firsthand experience to help athletes return to the sports they love, not just to daily life.

Gardner Sports Physical Therapy was built to move away from the cookie-cutter, multi-therapist, rushed-visit model of traditional healthcare toward one-on-one, root-cause-focused care. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.

What We Believe

Four things we’ll never compromise.

Your hour. Not shared.

No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a Doctor of PT, the whole time.

Cause first. Symptoms follow.

You’ve probably chased the pain itself before and never found why it started. We find the why, then the ache stops coming back.

Plans end. That’s the point.

You shouldn’t need a punch card. Every plan comes with a graduation date, so you always know how close you are.

You’re not a protocol.

Your job, your body, your goals: that’s what your plan is built around, never pulled from a generic sheet.

The Difference

Not your typical clinic.

A typical clinic

  • You explain your pain to a different aide every visit
  • Your hour gets split with two other patients
  • The same pain creeps back in a few months
  • No graduation date, just book again next week

Gardner Sports Physical Therapy

  • One-on-one with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, every visit
  • Your full hour, uninterrupted, every time
  • A cause-first evaluation before we treat anything
  • A plan with an endpoint, mapped out on day one

Feel the difference in your first visit.

Schedule My Appointment

Rooted in Temple

This is our neighborhood too.

We treat people from all over Temple: your neighbors, your teammates, your kids’ coaches. The mom who’s been pushing through it so nobody else has to worry? She’s probably on our schedule too. Recovery is a lot more personal when it’s local.

  • Temple
  • Belton
  • Salado

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Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours
    Mon 10 AM–12 PM, 1–7 PM
    Tue 8 AM–12 PM, 1–7 PM
    Wed 8 AM–12 PM, 4–7 PM
    Thu 8 AM–12 PM, 1–7 PM
    Fri, Sat, Sun: Closed
  • 512-763-0526 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Same-week appointments available

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