How to start an exercise program to ensure long term success

Discover how strength training after 40 can reduce injury risk, improve mobility, and extend your active years. Habits Physical Therapy in Nampa offers personalized plans.

Chronic pain can persist even after the initial injury has healed. Read why and what you can do about it in my latest blog post.

Form is not a one size fits all approach. Based on our indivdual characteristics each person will have natural variances in movement. When to address form and when not to is discussed further here.

There are many different ways to improve flexibility. In this post we go over a couple of the main strategies and talk about how they work.

Injury screens aren’t as good at predicting injury as we would hope but they can still be very valuable. I like to perform single leg activities to detect asymmetries.

Throws can be a great way to add speed and power for rotational athletes.

Physical therapist can be a great resource for guiding you through the early stages of an injury. In many cases you can see a physical therapist before a doctor and get the answers you are looking for.

We need to challenge our balance to improve it. Physical Therapy is a great way to help reduce our risk of falls.

Maintain power is one of the best things we can do as we age for function, fall risk prevention, and quality of life.

Lifting and low back pain can go hand in hand

Here is a summary of physical therapy after knee replacement surgery.

There are a lot of misconceptions about arthritis and movement. In this blog post we talk about arthritis, exercises, physical therapy and some myths.

Recovery after a race and knowing when to start training again can be challenging and very individualized. Here are some general tips to help you through that process.

Sleep is an important part of injury recovery and prevention. This blog posts talks about the importance aspects of sleep in regard to physical therapy.

Physical therapy can be a great benefit to the pickleball community in many ways and think the two are a great match for each other.

Some thoughts about the world of running and physical therapy. I somehow think we have made the complex too simple (running analysis) and the simple too complex (general training principles).

Strength training is a big part of physical therapy but should not be limited to those actively in physical therapy. In this post we talk about the benefits of strength training and how everyone should do some form.

How golfers can benefit from physical therapy

How Injuries Occur