Are You Breathing? No, the Right Way.
Are you breathing? No, the right way. One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to put as much effort into improving my breathing as I do into improving my health through exercise and trying to eat right… two months without soda, and I’ve only fallen off the wagon in a couple of weak moments! Breathing the right way has many […]
Acupuncture vs Dry Needling
If you are anything like me, you set into panic as soon as you hear the word “needle”, or even worse, catch a glimpse of one. It never fails: every time I get blood drawn, I have to look away, take deep breaths, nervously wipe the sweat off my clammy hands, and talk about anything […]
What is the Ideal Body Type for Physical Therapy?
What image comes to mind when you hear the words, “physical therapy?” Is it a big gym with sweaty athletes heaving heavy weights, throwing back Gatorades, and running the length of the clinic faster than you can say, “CrossFit?” Maybe physical therapy is an episode of Grey’s Anatomy – a patient learning to walk again […]
Why Losing Weight is Hard
The holiday season is over. Typically, a time to get together and celebrate with friends and family. Our lives in 2020 looked a lot different, and many of us fell out of the good habits that we may have. Many of us were home way more than usual, our gyms closed, and our day-to-day lives […]
Take a Brain Break For Your Body
With the end of the year coming, holidays are right around the corner and I’m sure you all are hoping for a “normal” holiday season as much as I am. Normal has been a hard thing to define this year, and one thing that has been as far from normal as anything else is school. […]
The Best Diet
Preface: I don’t really enjoy using the term ‘diet’ to describe how you are eating for a period of time; instead, we should try to think of the word ‘diet’ as an overall picture of how you eat all of the time. How someone eats can be influenced by a lot of different factors like […]
What is TeleHealth?
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen Keller Now, more than ever, we are surrounded by uncertainty. Employment is up in the air for so many individuals in our community. We continue to band together in an effort to flatten the curve, ease the strain on our hospitals […]
Springing Forward with Your Sleep Habits.
Daylight saving time has officially begun! This means different things for different people. For some of us, it’s a little bit darker when we start our commute into work or roll out of bed for our morning coffee. Many look forward to this time of year, as we’ll now have daylight after 5:30 pm […]
Training Anti-Extension
In the last post, we discussed what comprises our ‘core’ and its primary functions, ending with how I thought it would be more beneficial for athletes, both competitive and recreational, to train anti-extension and anti-rotation. This is important for a few reasons. A properly functioning core allows the rest of our body to move in […]
Defining Core Stability
Core stability is a term that you may have heard before, it’s certainly becoming more popular in the same way that “functional movement”, “functional exercise” and “movement patterns” have become more popular in the past few years. The problem is that “core stability”, like the other terms I listed, is a little ambiguous; so, two […]