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Functional Strength Training is for You & Everyone Else Too

Functional Strength Training is for You & Everyone Else Too

Alex Wilkins2018-11-07T18:53:01-05:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: Injury Prevention Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Strength Training Articles|Tags: health, sports, weight lifting, wellness, strength, strength training, Recreation, Human behavior, Squat, Olympic weightlifting, Powerlifting, Physical exercise, Squatting position, Individual sports, Deadlift, CrossFit, Bench press, Nancy Pickett|

"Strength training" has come to be synonymous with Crossfit, powerlifting and Olympic lifting, which can be highly intimidating to those of us who are wanting to stay healthy, but have no prior experience in the previous matters. However, functional strength training is vital for injury prevention, despite fitness level, and can be scaled for everyone. Our bodies are pretty incredible. Without our conscious thought they coordinate our movements, fight infections, regulate our heart beat and temperature, and digest food amongst [...]

Oh Baby! What Happened To My Body?

Oh Baby! What Happened To My Body?

Alex Wilkins2024-05-13T16:57:25-04:00April 4th, 2018|Categories: Wellness Articles, Dry Needling Articles, Pilates Articles, Women's Health Articles, Trigger Point Dry Needling Articles, Physical Therapists News|Tags: pain, Clinical medicine, Myofascial trigger point, Soft tissue disorders, Nociception, Medicine, back pain, dry needling, body, baby, massage, Manual therapy, health, Melissa Baudo, Physical Therapy, Medical specialties, Pseudoscience, Low back pain, Diastasis recti, Myofascial pain syndrome|

By Melissa Baudo Marchetti Calling all moms! Have you recently had a baby, or still struggling with post baby pain and weakness? Pregnancy places high demand on the musculoskeletal system and can be very traumatic for some women leaving them with myofascial pain, internal pelvic pain, nerve pain, diastasis recti (a gapping in the abdominal muscles), weakness in the core from a C-section, neck and shoulder pain from holding your newborn baby, and much more. In December, after a five-year [...]

Injury Prevention for Tennis Players

Injury Prevention for Tennis Players

Alex Wilkins2024-05-13T16:59:06-04:00March 21st, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Injury Prevention Articles, General Information, Physical Therapists News|Tags: athlete, health, Tennis, Melissa Baudo, Physical Therapy, sports, Sports injuries, Medical specialties, Sports injury, Tennis elbow, Overuse injuries, Stretching, Warming up, Elbow, Flexibility, Sports medicine, Manual therapy, Physical exercise, Melissa Baudo Marchetti, Human leg, Soft tissue disorders, RTT, Medicine, tennis injury, massage|

Injury Prevention for Tennis Players By Melissa Baudo Marchetti, PT, DPT, SCS, MTC It’s that time of year again…welcome back Spring ALTA tennis players! The weather is getting nicer out…perfect for tennis! We want you to be prepared this tennis season and minimize those pesky injuries, aches, and pains. Injuries to the lower leg, elbow, back and hips are common in tennis due to the high demand of the sport and the repetitive, quick movements required. You can reduce your [...]

The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

Alex Wilkins2023-12-15T00:21:40-05:00March 7th, 2018|Categories: Wellness Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Injury Prevention Articles, General Information, Physical Therapists News, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: The Creative Healing Shift, Dyspareunia, pain, Organ systems, Psychological stress, Low back pain, Acute pain, Suffering, Nociception, Pain management, Perception, stress, balance, chronic pain, wellness, health, Physical Therapy|

A recent National Institutes of Health study determined that nearly 50 million American adults have chronic pain and nearly half of those are reported to have severe pain. Our society and culture has provided many of us with many wonderful amenities of life, but at the same time, it has created a wide array of stressors and unhealthy activities. This can make it difficult to find balance in mind and body. Often, these imbalances can contribute to causing chronic pain, [...]

Will Cryotherapy Benefit Me?

Will Cryotherapy Benefit Me?

Karen Warren2020-04-07T12:36:26-04:00March 1st, 2018|Categories: General Information, Wellness Articles, Cryotherapy Articles, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: Reactive oxygen species, Karen Davis Warren, health, wellness, cryotherapy, whole body cryotherapy, inflammation, Medicine, Clinical medicine, Obesity, Antioxidant, Adipose tissue, Cold compression therapy, Branches of biology|

People often ask why there is a Whole Body Cryotherapy machine in our physical therapy practice? and I say why not?! Whole Body Cryotherapy, WBC, is a fantastic adjunct to any physical therapy treatment on many levels. PAIN RELIEF Whole Body Cryotherapy will provide pain relief via the production of norepinephrine, NE. Cold exposure releases NE, into the bloodstream and to the brain. This release of NE is one of the most consistent and profound physiological consequences to cold exposure. [...]

Why Do I Need Massage Therapy?

Why Do I Need Massage Therapy?

OneTherapy2019-04-10T12:58:15-04:00February 7th, 2018|Categories: Pain Management Articles, Massage Therapy Articles, Physical Therapy Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Wellness Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Redcord Neurac Articles|Tags: Medical specialties, Hydro massage, Equine massage, Allied health professions, Health care, Manual therapy, Myofascial trigger point, Medicine, massage therapy, massage, wellness, health, Physical Therapy|

Let me begin with explaining why I do this, why I’m a Massage Therapist. I’ve been a pretty active person most of my life—running, martial arts, weight training—so I’ve had my share of injuries, aches and pains. In my 20’s, I experienced my first massage session with an elderly lady that had the ability to find the root of my issues. I found this to be remarkable because the root was not necessarily where the pain was. Over the next [...]

How to Strengthen your Gut to Get Through Cold and Flu Season

How to Strengthen your Gut to Get Through Cold and Flu Season

Alex Wilkins2023-12-20T06:51:32-05:00January 31st, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Wellness Articles, Nutrition Articles|Tags: Microbiology, Dysbiosis, Antibiotic, Gut microbiota, Probiotics in children, Human gastrointestinal microbiota, Branches of biology, Medical specialties, Bacteriotherapy, Biotic, Irritable bowel syndrome, Gut flora, Probiotic, Probiotic Research, Prebiotic, Gastroenterology, Bacteriology, Digestive system, Medicine, prebiotics, probiotics, gtu health, gut, wellness, health|

Page Love MS, RDN, CSSD, LD During the winter, frequent changes in temperature can suppress the immune system and make even the fittest of athletes more prone to those winter colds and influenza viruses. Taking a look at your gut health is a great way to help your body fight of infection this time of year. Your digestive tract is teeming with microbes -- microscopic bacteria that can be both good and bad -- that are often referred to you [...]

The Importance of Play

The Importance of Play

Alex Wilkins2023-12-20T05:28:52-05:00January 18th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Wellness Articles, Pelvic Floor Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, General Information, Physical Therapists News|Tags: exercise, Physical activity, Summer Olympic sports, Health software, Fitness apps, workouts, Human activities, fitness, Cycle sport, Chloe, Physical exercise, Human behavior, Recreation, Medicine, Chloe Murdock, january, play, biking, cycling, new years resolutions, wellness, sports, health, Pilates, Physical Therapy|

Chloe Murdock PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS We’re two weeks into January, and gyms are bursting with people eager to keep their New Year’s resolutions. But how many of these people will be so zealously hammering away on the Stair Master in July? Becoming and staying active is very hard in our sedentary society, often because it becomes just another task on our “To Do” list. Adding one hour of exercise per day can cut into our social lives and time [...]

New Year’s Evolution

Alex Wilkins2023-12-19T16:32:36-05:00December 27th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: evolution, new years resolution, new year, resolutions, new years, wellness, health, Physical Therapy, mental health, physical health, Human behavior, Brain, Cognition, Experimental psychology, Motivation, Emotion, Energy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Megan Neyer, Articles, Limbic system, Subjective experience, Behavior|

Dr. Megan Neyer - Neyer Performance Strategies What Really Matters? Constructing Your New Year’s EVOLUTION “All the world’s a stage, all the men and women merely players” - Shakespeare It’s that time of year when people make new year’s resolutions. They come in droves to the gym in early January. I call them “Resolutionists”. Resolutionists show up with the best of intentions to better themselves by losing weight and getting fitter. And then two weeks later, they’re gone again. While [...]

Is Sitting the New Smoking?

Is Sitting the New Smoking?

Alex Wilkins2023-12-19T16:54:29-05:00November 29th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapists News, General Information, Wellness Articles, Physical Therapy Articles, Prevention Articles, Ergonomics Articles|Tags: Doctor of Physical Therapy, Therapy, Medical specialties, Cancer-related fatigue, Sedentary lifestyle, exercise, Physical Therapy, Karen Davis Warren, health, active, desk job, sitting, wellness, ergonomics, Medicine, Occupational safety and health, Human factors and ergonomics, Physical exercise, Manual therapy, Obesity, Lifestyles, Medical terminology|

No SEDENTARY is! Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic at Arizona State University, coined the phrase “Sitting is the new smoking”. Studies have correlated chronic sitting with an "increased risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, kidney disease in women colon cancer in men, numerous chronic issues related to obesity, and death." This means that if you work out and eat well, but then sit all day you are still considered a sedentary person. The prolonged sitting cancels out the [...]