Health and wellness training in YOUR home
Please take a few minutes to watch this wonderful video thoughtfully produced by the University of Adelaide in Australia. They tackle the important issue of frailty and discuss causes and solutions. The video could be an advertisement for our mission
Walking is king. I don’t consider walking an exercise. I see walking as an essential activity to living. Although my number one overall recommendation, walking is not my number one exercise recommendation. One activity that some people find increasingly difficult
One area that I focus on with all my clients is gait speed. Not just walking faster, but having the ability to vary speed. The act of walking faster engages more muscles, improves balance, requires deeper breathing, and improves our
Most physical therapists give their patients home exercise programs. Predictably, most patients do not perform the home exercise programs. I believe that their are two barriers to overcome for greater compliance: Too many exercises given (a topic for later discussion)
Plato lived nearly 2500 years ago when there were no grocery stores, fast food joints, cars, airplanes, doctors, hospitals and one had almost no choice except to move, but he still espoused exercise. Modern medicine is still in its infancy
Once I learned that I cannot fix anyone, the better my outcomes were for my patients/clients. Education is my treatment modality of choice these days. My client and I sit and talk about goals, strategies, and scenarios effecting their health,
I use this graphic to explain to clients that nothing happens in isolation. And of course when it comes to pain, the philosophy is doubly appropriate. I use various names for this graphic including wheel of death, wheel of pain,
Learning to get up and down from the floor safely and often changes everything…for the better.