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I Want to Ride my Bicycle By Julianne Simpson Each year as May and Bike Month arrive, I am so ...
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Texts4Mom - Happy Mother's Day! by Bridget Dwyer Happy Mother's Day! This week, we invited our friend from Fit4Mom Seattle, ...
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Spring Outside with the MSPT Team We love the return of warmer weather and the start of outdoor exercise season ...
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Why Physical Therapy is About More Than ‘Getting Better’ By Carrie Hall, PT, MHS When you make an appointment with ...
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Starting on Wednesday, April 3, Movement Systems will have a presence in Gig Harbor at the office of Dr. Cindy ...
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A whopping 25-45% of women experience urinary incontinence in their lifetime1. Even though it is common, leaking when you sneeze, jump, cough ...
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"Deadlifting is my favorite.  That’s been a vast surprise to me since I never thought I’d do free weights, let ...
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Pilates focuses on the powerhouse, which is the core and back muscles or the midsection of your body. These muscles ...
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Thanks to this design, our bladder "learns" much in the same way the rest of our muscles do – and ...
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“Tight” muscles, despite the fact they are remaining in a relatively contracted state, are not necessarily strong muscles.  It may ...
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Initially when I was practicing, the emphasis was on stretching. With more intensive study the past two years, however, I ...
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IT IMPROVES PERFORMANCE. In one study, dancers who participated in a 12 week cross-training program demonstrated significant improvement in the ...
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Walking can reduce pain and improve function, mobility, mood, and quality of life without worsening symptoms for those with arthritis ...
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Exercise may be an acceptable alternative or adjunctive therapy to enhance mood, functioning, and co-morbid conditions for individuals with mood ...
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Your risk of a prolonged recovery increases if you have certain specific signs and symptoms. These include: loss of consciousness, ...
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For eight months, half of the women did twice-weekly 30-minute sessions of supervised HiRIT that included deadlifts, overhead presses, squats ...
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The holiday season can be a challenging time for maintaining exercise habits. The days are shorter, the weather cold and ...
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Deadlifts - So why are we so terrified of it? Usually it’s something along the lines of “my back is ...
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Squatting enables you to achieve positions for movements needed in everyday life such as getting to the ground to tie ...
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When it comes to the treating a patient in pain, physical therapists often speak highly of their favorite methods and ...
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Prior advice to women struggling with breast cancer-related lymphedema involved minimizing stress to the affected arm, which may lead to ...
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What is sport readiness? Sport readiness refers to the body's ability to match the requirements necessary for a particular sport ...
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The world we live in is constantly pulling our attention to a million different things at what seems like a ...
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Experiencing pain is generally not pleasant. If it were, humans would have a very different relationship with pain. Pain can ...
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Ever found yourself feeling off balance, dizzy, woozy, like the world is spinning? It can be really disorienting. How do ...
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If one thing has become abundantly clear in the past week, it is that what we say matters. The choices ...
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Most days, I wake up to the sound of my daughter calling out for me, usually between 6 and 6:15 ...
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Get physical therapy first! #GetPT1st is a movement to promote the utilization of physical therapists as your first stop for ...
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A former patient recently contacted me letting me know she was being interviewed for a podcast called The Voice of ...
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Yoga can have many physiological benefits as long as it's practiced safely, intentionally, and with proper breathing techniques. Physical therapy ...
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If you want to perform well, you have to eat well. Optimal nutrition can enhance physical activity, athletic performance, and ...
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What does it take to be the best? There is plenty of evidence showing that early specialization in an activity ...
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Your individual experience matters when it comes to gaining strength, endurance, and overall capacity to exercise. Once you have established ...
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In my last blog about sleep, I reviewed how much you should sleep and why. In that post, we reviewed ...
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The transversus abdominis, pelvic floor, deep lumbar multifidi, and diaphragm muscles form our inner core muscles as discussed in my ...
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This week's blog post is a guest post (link) from Colorado PT Craig Depperschmidt, PT, DPT. In his blog, he ...
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These days, most people either know of someone or they themselves have been diagnosed with cancer. There have been some ...
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Coloring is an activity which dates back to the 1800s, when the psychotherapist Carl Jung prescribed therapeutic coloring for his ...
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To train is to stress or overload the body to create a positive adaptation for improved performance. By successfully implementing ...
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May is National Arthritis Awareness month. In recognition of this important cause, I have decided to blog about Arthritis, particularly ...
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