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Despite temperatures in the 20’s and below, long weekend runs of brilliant sunshine and fresh snow on the trees, can be the most enjoyable.   But the weekday runs, for people who work traditional hours, create some challenges: Darkness upon waking and/or when returning home from work Plummeting temperatures Falling snow Snow and ice on […]

Have you ever lost your footing on stairs, wet/icy pavement, or the floor of your own bedroom as you get up at night—causing you to fling your arms out to try and catch yourself before landing and raising your heart beat to cope with the suddenly stressful situation?  Nearly everyone, regardless of age, has experienced […]

Chronic pain has become an epidemic—according to Healthline, as of 2021, 50 million Americans are living with the condition. This amounts to nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population. To continue our education on chronic pain, we became inspired by one of the latest episodes of Mayim Bialik’s podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown. The episode features […]

What do you call a frog with no hind legs?   Unhoppy Early in the pandemic, I had a Zoom gathering with some of my Physical Therapy friends. A question was posed: What is one thing about you that we don’t know?   My answer was, I have a collection of frogs.   Anybody who has been […]

Multiple times a day I help people view their aging or injured body in a new way. My 75-year-old aunt came to me with knee and back pain. Earlier in the year, she had a total knee replacement of the other knee.  My aunt has always been extremely active. In her younger days, she played […]

While walking his german shepherd, my uncle got tangled up in his dog’s leash and fell down, as the dog decided to go a different direction. Gail bent down to fill her dog’s food bowl and hurt her back. Lori’s dog took off after another dog pulling Lori’s arm causing rotator cuff tendonitis. I know; […]

In June, my son Drew participated in the Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin sprint triathlon. It was a beautiful, sunny morning in the low 70’s. We arrived very early in the morning at 5:30 am for packet pick up and set up in the transition area. Drew began his race at 7:15 am and finished up just […]

What Too Much Sitting Can Do There are 168 hours in a week. If you subtract sleeping, exercising, doing errands or chores, that leaves approximately 114 hours, or 67% of our time left. What are we doing with 67% of our time? Sitting…..Especially when we are working from home which can cause neck, hip and […]

When I was a kid I loved to tumble in our empty living room, the backyard or in gym class.  I used my tumbling skills as a junior high cheerleader and then in high school on the gymnastics team. As you can imagine, I was very small and flexible, however I didn’t have a lot […]

Last week while vacationing in Florida, my hometown of Highland Park became the site of our nation’s latest mass shooting. A friend texted me the news not long after it happened, during the city’s annual 4th of July parade. Like most of us, I went through a battery of emotions – shock, anger, disbelief, sadness, […]