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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 […]

Headaches are not a problem you have to live with. It’s one PT can fix.

Headaches are a fixable an ailment that are far too commonly just accepted as a fact of life. 47% of adults experience some form of headache. This problem is so ubiquitous that migraines alone cost between $13-17 billion dollars last year.  Despite the cost physically, financially, psychologically, people don’t often go any further than the […]

Tactical Athletes, their challenges and injury risk.

Tactical athlete is a term that has become more common in the medical community as we have acknowledged the unique physical challenges faced by soldiers and first responders. The unique combination of stressors placed on these individuals via physical demands, environmental demands, mental stressors, and fatigue all contribute to higher risks of injury. In 2014 […]