Movement screen
Every athlete starts with a full movement screen: how you squat, hinge, land and rotate, side to side. Dr. Ebberlein looks for the weak link that keeps loading the injured area, not just the spot that hurts.
Sports and performance care | Doctor of Chiropractic
Meet Dr. Sam Ebberlein
A former collegiate runner who treats athletes of every level — and helps them stay in the game.
Doctor of
Chiropractic
Sports &
Performance
Care
Former
Collegiate
Runner
Youth Athlete
Injury
Prevention
9 Years
in Practice
Sports chiropractic built around movement and recovery
Dr. Sam Ebberlein, DC joined LeadWorks Chiropractic in 2019 and has nine years of experience in sports and performance care. A former collegiate distance runner, he knows how frustrating it is when an injury keeps coming back. His visits combine adjustments with soft-tissue work, movement screening and a short, specific exercise plan, so patients understand why the problem happened and what keeps it from returning. He works with runners, youth and high school athletes, CrossFit and lifting athletes, and active adults who simply want to move without pain.
- Doctor of Chiropractic with nine years in practice.
- Former collegiate cross-country and track athlete.
- Postgraduate training in sports chiropractic, soft-tissue therapy and rehabilitative exercise.
- Volunteer sports-care provider at local high school cross-country meets.
- Leads a free Saturday-morning beginner running group in Kennesaw.
Dr. Ebberlein’s approach to sports care
Find the weak link, treat it, and train it.
Hands-on treatment
Targeted adjustments and soft-tissue work to restore joint motion and calm irritated tissue, so training can continue in a modified form instead of stopping completely.
A plan you can do at home
Three or four specific exercises, progressed every visit, that fix the pattern behind the injury. Short enough to do before practice or a run, so it actually gets done.
Back to full speed
A clear return-to-sport plan with milestones, then a check-in schedule that keeps you training through the season. The goal is to finish the season — and the next one — healthy.
Outside the treatment room
Away from the office, Dr. Sam is still a runner. He leads a free beginner running group on Saturday mornings, volunteers at high school cross-country meets around Cobb County, and is training for his next trail ultramarathon. He believes the best treatment plan is the one a patient can actually stick to, so every plan he writes fits around school, work and family.
Patients on Dr. Ebberlein
1 / 6
★★★★★
Dr. Sam is the first provider who actually understood running. My IT band had been flaring every time I passed mile six. He found a hip weakness nobody else had checked, gave me a short routine, and adjusted my low back. I finished the Kennesaw Mountain trail race last month with zero knee pain.
Jordan K.October 2026 · Google review
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955 Ernest W Barrett Pkwy NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144 · (770) 555‑1234