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Core Goals: Pilates 101

Core Goals: Pilates 101

Melissa Baudo2019-02-24T19:27:25-05:00February 24th, 2019|Categories: Pilates Articles|Tags: Human behavior, fitness, Mind–body interventions, Cross-training, Barre, Joseph Pilates, Tangolates, BASI Pilates, Physical exercise, Recreation, wellness, Injury Prevention, Pilates|

Core Goals: Pilates Are you looking for a strong core, enhanced mental awareness and whole body health? Well read on to learn more about how Pilates can help achieve your goals. What is Pilates? A mind-body exercise created by Joseph Pilates that provides daily conditioning, promotes whole body health and develops mental awareness to optimize your personal performance. “Pilates is complete coordination of body, mind and spirit. Through Pilates, you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then [...]

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: Strength Training Articles, Injury Prevention Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Sports Medicine Articles|Tags: Squat, Nancy Pickett, Bench press, CrossFit, Deadlift, Individual sports, Squatting position, Physical exercise, Powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, Human behavior, Recreation, strength training, strength, wellness, weight lifting, sports, health|

"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 [...]

The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

Alex Wilkins2020-04-07T11:31:28-04:00March 7th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapists News, General Information, Injury Prevention Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Wellness Articles, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: The Creative Healing Shift, Organ systems, pain, Physical Therapy, health, wellness, chronic pain, balance, stress, Perception, Pain management, Nociception, Suffering, Acute pain, Low back pain, Psychological stress|

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: Physical Therapy Articles, Cryotherapy Articles, Wellness Articles, General Information|Tags: Branches of biology, Cold compression therapy, Adipose tissue, Antioxidant, Reactive oxygen species, Obesity, Clinical medicine, Medicine, inflammation, whole body cryotherapy, cryotherapy, wellness, health, Karen Davis Warren|

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, Performance Enhancement Articles, Wellness Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Redcord Neurac Articles, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: massage therapy, Hydro massage, Equine massage, Allied health professions, Health care, Manual therapy, Myofascial trigger point, Medicine, massage, wellness, health, Physical Therapy, Medical specialties|

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 Wilkins2020-04-07T11:31:37-04:00January 31st, 2018|Categories: Nutrition Articles, Wellness Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: Gastroenterology, health, wellness, gut, gtu health, probiotics, prebiotics, Medicine, Digestive system, Bacteriology, Microbiology, Prebiotic, Probiotic Research, Probiotic, Gut flora, Irritable bowel syndrome, Biotic, Bacteriotherapy, Medical specialties, Branches of biology, Human gastrointestinal microbiota, Probiotics in children|

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 Wilkins2020-04-07T11:31:50-04:00January 18th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapists News, General Information, Sports Medicine Articles, Pelvic Floor Articles, Wellness Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: cycling, Physical Therapy, Pilates, health, sports, wellness, new years resolutions, biking, play, exercise, january, Chloe Murdock, Medicine, Recreation, Human behavior, Physical exercise, Chloe, Cycle sport, Human activities|

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 Wilkins2022-06-23T08:59:19-04:00December 27th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: Subjective experience, Limbic system, Articles, Megan Neyer, Neuroscience, Psychology, Energy, evolution, Emotion, Motivation, Experimental psychology, Cognition, Brain, Human behavior, physical health, mental health, new years resolution, new year, resolutions, new years, wellness, health, Physical Therapy|

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 Wilkins2020-04-07T12:36:45-04:00November 29th, 2017|Categories: Prevention Articles, Physical Therapists News, General Information, Wellness Articles, Physical Therapy Articles, Ergonomics Articles|Tags: Cancer-related fatigue, Medical specialties, Physical Therapy, Karen Davis Warren, health, active, desk job, sitting, wellness, ergonomics, exercise, Medicine, Occupational safety and health, Human factors and ergonomics, Physical exercise, Manual therapy, Obesity, Lifestyles, Medical terminology, Sedentary lifestyle, Doctor of Physical Therapy|

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 [...]