Hydration 101: A Pillar for Optimizing your Health
This blog focuses on all things regarding hydration. You will have an understanding of how much water you need day to day, how to adjust your hydration needs around exercise, and tips to hit crush hydration goals!
The BEST CrossFit Modifications to Help you Train Through Injury
There are many ways to get creative with your CrossFit training so that you are able to continue training even in the wake of pain and injury. Hitting Rx when healthy is a great metric to strive for, but if your end-goal of CrossFit is to improve your health, wellness, and fitness longevity, then occasional modifications will likely be necessary in order to play that long game effectively.
Medial Knee Pain and Runners
In this week’s blog, Dr Cody discusses common causes of knee pain with long distance running as well as potential treatments.
Your Rehab Should Look like your Sport, and Here’s Why.
Your rehab should look like the sport you are trying to get back to. Read more to find out why this is so important for your recovery process and what to do if it is not the case.
Prevent knee pain with hiking
Hiking is a high level sport and should be treated as such through focused preparation and training. Pick one or two exercises from each of the following categories and feel for yourself how much better your knees feel on the trails!
How Mobility Screens Can Improve Your Golf Game
TPI screening can be an essential part of improving your swing speed, reducing pain, and improving your longevity in the game!
The Importance of Finding your “Why”?
Do you know your "why"? Establishing and uncovering your true motivation behind your goals is essential for success. Read more to learn the importance of understanding your "why" and an easy 3 step process to finding it.
Are You Actually Getting Stronger?
Humans lose about 3-8% of muscle mass per decade after the age of 30.
If daily life isn’t enough of a stimulus to retain muscle mass and strength over our lifetimes, then what does it take to build these attributes?
Weight Training: Why Mobility Is King
Lift all you want. But weight training with FULL mobility will always trump weight training with less than full mobility.
The Missing Link to Improving Your Squat Depth
Do you struggle with squatting past parallel? Or maybe you have decent depth but it doesn’t feel comfortable? If you’ve been spending a lot of time with hip and knee mobility with little improvement, read this blog to unlock your squat mobility!
Is Barbell Lifting Helping or Hurting Your Performance?
Does too much heavy barbell training ultimately lead to poor movement quality and increased injury risk?
Soreness: How Much Is Too Much?
While there are no black and white rules, a therapist should help you understand what types of soreness is appropriate after rehab or working out.
Want to Level-Up your Split Grip skills the Pole? Here are 4 ways to increase your shoulder strength and stability.
Are you a pole dancer who struggles with moves like butterfly or ayesha? Feel like you are not able to hold yourself in that split grip upside down? You may need to work on your shoulder strength and stability for the overhead position.
Is your Exercise Form Setting you up for Injury?
Are you setting your back up for future injury by bending too far forward or slightly rounding your back during deadlifts? Are you going to wear your knees out by squatting past parallel, going knees over toes, or performing “high impact” activities? Or are our bodies a bit more resilient than we are giving them credit for?
3 Easy Ways to Manage Sciatic Pain
These are the 3 easiest and most common ways to address your sciatic symptoms! If you still are having pain, get help from one of our physical therapists and fix this forever!
Should you stop exercising if you have back pain?
Has low-back pain been holding you back in the gym or with your active lifestyle? The good news is, you may be able to have your cake and eat it too.
How to Improve Your Mindset After an Injury
How you respond to the injury mentally, is just as important as the physical rehabilitation. The better your attitude towards an injury and the recovery process, the easier it will be and, ultimately, the faster you will recover.
Chronic Low Back Pain: Surgery vs Physical Therapy
Time, cost, and outcomes are important things to consider when contemplating surgery for chronic low back pain.
3 Reasons Why Artistic Athletes Should Deadlift
As an artistic athlete you require your body to be able to perform at a high level so you can have the creative freedom to express yourself and perform. Whether you are a dancer, aerialist, or gymnast, there is a delicate balance between strength, power, and flexibility that you must achieve in your sport. The deadlift, and its variations, can help you easily find that balance…