3 Athletic performance tests you need to do to get ready for the next level.
Your athletes’ capabilities in the countermovement jump, squat jump, and single leg jump can help them know where they are as athletes relative to where they should be to remain an athlete at the next level. Many of us dreamed of competing in athletics at the collegiate or professional level. Many also have kids that […]
Get a grip and give yourself a hand to be the strongest version of yourself.
Coming to grips with aging is hard and gets harder as we get older. If you’ve crossed certain numerical thresholds, you know this all too well. If you’ve got a lot of time left on the clock this is worth reading to put yourself in position to dictate the quality of life you experience in […]
Invest in yourself by investing in your health with Performance PT
We’re constantly bombarded with so many things competing for our time, attention, and money. There’s value to be found in much of it, but nothing will provide you with a better return on investment than putting that time, money, and effort into yourself. Major injuries and incidents take away our agency; if you have a […]
Strength, Speed, and Power, 3 key sport inputs PT will help you with!
Strength and speed are great for sports and activities. But power is the vital stat is key to excelling at these endeavors. Power which is work/time, or in physical activity force x velocity dictates what we can do with our explosive movements. Power can be easily visualized and measured by recording jump height or distance, […]
Pain nerves and how injury changes everything.
Pain causes physical and chemical changes to the mind and body. The most recent blog covered the theories of pain and opened the doorway to some of the concepts that I want to cover here. We’re all different in the ways that we perceive the world, and pain is no exception. On average males and […]
4 Different theories on pain and one important fact to embrace.
Pain is something we all relate to because it’s something that we all deal with. But pain is not something we should ever normalize. Pain is a warning; its textbook definition is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.” An important distinction is pain is subjective, we’ll come back […]
3 Different poor postures and pain associated with them.
Posture pressure and pain Stand up straight! Chest up! These and other similar commands have been barked at most of us at least once in our lives. For many it’s a nearly daily banter or just part of the soundtrack to every other day. But these chastisements are more than just a holdover from the […]
3 phases make a run a run. PT will help you make the most of each.
3 things differentiate running from walking and jogging. When you run you have a shorter stance phase, a longer swing phase, and you enter into double-float (both feet off the ground). All three components make sense and are easy to identify with just a little bit of practiced observation. Within the swing phase and stance […]
Movement can be the #1 medicine, if you use it the right way
Movement is something we engage in everyday, but it’s no simple task. Each and every movement we engage in requires an intricate choreography of electrochemical signaling, muscular recruitment, balancing agonists and antagonists, and having access to the ROM to complete the task at hand. One of humanity’s greatest strengths is adaptability, and this is true […]
Sleep and stress, how you feel changes how you heal.
Sleep is an essential part of life. We know we need it, we know we don’t feel great when we don’t have enough or have too much. Something less intuitive about sleep is the vital role it plays in not only healing, but also in avoiding injury in the first place. Studies of adolescents have […]
