Heart Healthy: Take Care Of Your Body’s Most Important Muscle
Your heart is the body’s most vital muscle. Maintaining a heart-healthy lifestyle is essential for overall well-being, and physical therapists (PTs) play a crucial role in addressing cardiovascular concerns and overcoming pain barriers that may hinder exercise.
I’m An Endurance Physical Therapist, And These Are The 5 Things I Do After A Long-Distance Run
Lace-up your shoes, go for a run, take off shoes, and end of the session. Sound familiar? If your run time follows this pattern, you are not alone. Most runners admit they give little attention to recovery and cooling off after a long run. However, if you want to improve performance or are prone to injuries, you are doing yourself a disservice by skipping these recovery methods. Use the methods below as a guide to facilitate improved running recovery on your next long run.
Stand Up To Hip Pain: 3 Ways That Physical Therapy Can Put Pain In The Past
Chronic hip pain can be a real pain! It is a condition that can affect many people and has an overall prevalence of 10% in the population. At times, it can be very stressful when nothing seems to help the nagging pain that you have each day. Thankfully, physical therapy has been shown to help patients with chronic hip pain tremendously. Below are helpful tips that can ease your pain and get you back towards moving pain-free again.
Beginner Workout Plan You Can Take To The Gym
Getting into the gym that first time can be pretty intimidating. Especially with that guy screaming in the corner as he deadlifts 400 lbs. Below, we’ll go over a plan you can bring into the gym on your first week and progress independently when you feel comfortable. If you experience any pain while exercising, stop and seek help from a physician or a physical therapist.
Creative Way to Get Moving When Working from the Office
While Americans work in various industries and hold many different jobs, there’s one constant thread that can be seen through nearly all people’s work. They spend far too much of their day sitting.
Sedentary jobs have increased 83% for Americans since the 1950s, and physically active occupations make up less than 20% of all U.S. jobs. The shifting landscape of American work doesn’t seem to be reversing course anytime soon, and, unfortunately, it negatively impacts on our society’s health.
