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Core Goals: Pilates 101

Core Goals: Pilates 101

Melissa Baudo2023-12-21T14:39:56-05:00February 24th, 2019|Categories: Pilates Articles|Tags: Pilates, Injury Prevention, wellness, Recreation, Human behavior, Physical exercise, BASI Pilates, Tangolates, Joseph Pilates, Barre, Cross-training, Mind–body interventions, fitness, Physical culture, Bodyweight exercises, Romana Kryzanowska|

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: 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 [...]

The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

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

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, General Information, Wellness Articles, Cryotherapy Articles|Tags: Karen Davis Warren, health, wellness, cryotherapy, whole body cryotherapy, inflammation, Medicine, Clinical medicine, Obesity, Reactive oxygen species, 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: Physical Therapy Articles, Redcord Neurac Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Wellness Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Pain Management Articles, Massage Therapy Articles|Tags: Medicine, Physical Therapy, health, wellness, massage, massage therapy, Myofascial trigger point, Manual therapy, Health care, Allied health professions, Equine massage, Hydro massage, 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 Wilkins2023-12-20T06:51:32-05:00January 31st, 2018|Categories: Nutrition Articles, Wellness Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: Antibiotic, Dysbiosis, Gut microbiota, 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 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: Brain, Behavior, Subjective experience, Limbic system, Articles, Megan Neyer, Neuroscience, Psychology, Energy, Emotion, Motivation, Experimental psychology, Cognition, Human behavior, physical health, mental health, evolution, 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 Wilkins2023-12-19T16:54:29-05:00November 29th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Physical Therapists News, General Information, Wellness Articles, Prevention Articles, Ergonomics Articles|Tags: 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, Therapy, Medical specialties, Cancer-related fatigue|

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 [...]