Proactive Core Health

10/31/2025

Physical Therapy Fun Facts

On average you fart enough in one day to fill a party balloon.

10/30/2025

Women's Pelvic Health

"Constipation, straining to eliminate a bowel movement that is of hard consistency, increases stress on pelvic/urogenital diaphragm bowl" according to Douglas et al 2004. This can of course lead to increased incidence of hemorrhoids during pregnancy. Having good good toileting posture mechanics is extremely important throughout pregnancy.

10/28/2025

Physical Therapy Funnies

10/27/2025

Sign up to join a class today!

10/27/2025

If you have not signed up already, be sure to reserve your spot. This amazing day with providers answering your questions is coming up this Saturday. Register for your spot now!

10/27/2025

PT Tips

Minimizing dehydration is extremely important if you are at increased risk of kidney stone formation. Be sure to keep a glass of cold water and more to refill during meal time. On average you should be drinking between 6-8, 8-oz glasses of water daily, especially if you work in a strenuous job where you sweat a great deal or have been working out.

White, L., M. D., & Foster, S. (2000). The Herbal Drugstore: The Best Natural Alternatives to Over-the-Counter and Prescription Medicines. Rodale Inc.

10/26/2025

10/25/2025

Herbs for Health
(Not intended as medical advice, just information. Please research or talk to your physician to learn more on your own.)

Northern Redcurrant
The fruit of this plant is edible. Using a decoction made from the stems can be used as an eye wash for soreness. Mixing a decoction of the roots and stems together has been said to help dissolve kidney stones.

10/24/2025

Physical Therapy Fun Facts

The body has 2.5 million sweat pores.

10/23/2025

Woman's Pelvic Health

Did you know that foot posture, strength and coordination are integral to pelvic floor mobility and coordination? The reason this is important is because the sacral nerve roots of 2, 3, 4, and 5 innervate not only the intrinsic foot muscles but also the gluteal, obturator internus (hip rotators) but the external urethral sphincters, plus the pelvic and urogenital diaphragm. (Hulme, 2005).

10/21/2025

Be sure to check out this amazing event!

✨Introducing our second expert for the Perimenopause Summit! ✨

Becky Kissinger, PT, Doctor of Physical Therapy

"I’m a lifelong resident of the Kiel area and grew up learning to work hard on my family’s dairy farm. Beyond working with family from a young age, I developed a passion for sports which fostered my desire to assist individuals to return to daily life after injury. I attended Concordia University-Wisconsin to finish out my bachelor’s degree in biology and continue on in their graduate school where I earned my Doctorate Degree in Physical Therapy in 2010. Since then, I have been practicing in outpatient orthopedic clinics within the surrounding areas as a general practitioner. In July of 2023 I decided to branch out and open my own small independent cash-pay clinic to better serve individuals looking for physical therapy or wanting to get fit or stay fit with Pilates and CoreAlign classes.

Throughout the course of my continuing education, I have been certified in dry needling as another modality to use in my treatments for pain and immobility. In 2022 I was introduced to Pilates and learned of its profound overlap with physical therapy. Diving in further, I took more continuing education on the CoreAlign which takes the concepts of Pilates and puts the individual into an upright position where they are able to mimic daily activities with immediate feedback on how they are coordinating their movements. This led me into women’s pelvic health which is an extremely underserved and minimized area that unfortunately affects a vast majority of females today in the form of pelvic pain, incontinence and several other concerns.

Pilates and the CoreAlign both pair very well with physical therapy as they focus on the individual and their ability to improve both kinesthetic and proprioceptive awareness, or knowing where your body is and what it is doing in space. Of course, all these components are especially important for women dealing with varying pelvic health concerns that can arise from pregnancy, post-partum, aging, athletics and many other reasons.