Health and Wellness
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Making Exercise Work For You
June 8, 2021
Staying active can be hard. Most of us want to do more, but where can we find the time? Jobs, kids, volunteer opportunities, cooking, cleaning the house, school activities, and more draw on our time, and a little time for leisure would be nice, too, right? Adding exercise in is hard. Do you ever hear […]
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Setting Up Your Work Station
May 26, 2021
As we continue to navigate a pandemic, our work setups have continued to change. Whether you’re working at home or in an office setting, what worked for the first two or three weeks, we are finding is not a suitable long-term solution. Those 8 hours at the computer are feeling longer and longer as our […]
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Spring Cleaning
May 18, 2021
Spring is here! I think this year, more than most, it is especially welcomed based on all the challenges and changes we have encountered in and through the COVID-19 pandemic. As the new year progresses AND new life be gins AND more and more restrictions are lifted, life is starting to feel almost…NORMAL. We have […]
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Star Wars Meets Physical Therapy
May 3, 2021
A long time a go in a PT clinic in your neighborhood… PHYSICAL THERAPY WARS A New Hip It is a period of growth in the medical, health, and wellness fields. A brave group of physical therapists have band together to combat the aches, ailments, and surgeries that awesome and evil degenerative arthritis has created. […]
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Treating Headaches
April 19, 2021
Did you know there are many different types of headaches? And did you know most of these headaches can be treated by a trained physical therapist? There are five main types of headaches that can be differentiated by factors such as length/duration of symptoms, location of the headache, and other associated symptoms. Let’s dive in […]
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How Are You Sleeping?
April 1, 2021
When you go to see a physical therapist for the first time, one of the questions they might ask you is, “How much sleep are you getting?” It might seem kind of strange that your physical therapist is asking you about your sleep, but sleep actually plays a big role in how we perceive pain […]
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A Day in the Life of an Athletic Trainer
March 24, 2021
I love what I do! Being a part of athletics and students’ teams, cheering when they win, consoling when they lose and seeing them come back to their sports after an injury are amazing parts of my job. I joke with my students all the time that they should get a degree so they can […]
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Why I Became an Athletic Trainer
March 5, 2021
I am often asked, “Why did you get into the field of athletic training?” My answer for why I became an Athletic Trainer is pretty typical. I played a lot of sports growing up, got hurt a bunch of times, hung out with my Athletic Trainer too much, thought she was really cool, and decided […]
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Signs of TMD and How to Fix It
February 16, 2021
Click. Pop. Grind… are these jaw sounds familiar? Or how about this… Delicious bagels that used to satisfy the soul, now cause a stabbing pain in your jaw. Yawning is no longer just an indicator that your tired, but also that something in your jaw is just not right. Instead of waking up well rested, […]
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Supporting Locally-Owned Businesses
February 9, 2021
Remaining 100% locally-owned is a rarity in the world of Physical Therapy practices. Historically, if a physical therapist starts a private practice the trend is to grow it and then sell to a national corporation, making bank and trotting off into the sunset. This is exactly what has occurred with most of our competitors here […]