Personal PT, LLC

23/07/2025

We get you back in the game 🎾🎾🎾

28/05/2025

Many gyms now offer both cold water pools and saunas…and while the fitness world has hyped up both, what does the research say about cold and sauna exposure differences btw men and women? Which one is right for you and under what parameters? Still more research needs to be done, but this lays the foundation for you.

21/01/2025

Tuesday Testimonial…the kind that melts my heart 🫶

11/01/2025

BEFORE you ski do these exercises so that APRES ski your hips will thank you! ⛷️ 🎿

The vast majority of skiing injuries, even those at the knee and ankle, are because your hips aren’t as strong as they should be. ESPECIALLY your most important hip stabilizing muscle, your glute med, the muscle on the outside of the hip.

And no, seated hip abduction machines at the gym and sidelying clamshells aren’t enough because we never injure our hips in a seated position.

And yes, I had to wear my APRES ski sweater for this video 😂

06/01/2025

Continuing on from the last post -

Can’t stress enough how important it is to stretch your hamstrings LESS and strengthen MORE

If you sit down all day long, the back of your thigh and glutes are pretty weak, and your hamstrings are supposed to be stronger than your quads.

Your hamstrings are both a pelvis and knee muscle and support you in the vast majority of your activities and exercises, but are you training them the right way?

If you don’t own a physioball, I suggest you buy one bc this is one of the most important exercises I teach all my lower body patients. You can also do the same exercise using a towel underneath your feet and slide your legs out, but that is much harder!

More challenging than a curl machine or ankle weights, the stability ball requires a fair amount of core stability and control to keep the ball from rolling while you bend your knees and then straighten to starting position.

The key is to lift the hips up as high as possible while keeping your core engaged with belly button tucked in to feel the burn in the back of the thighs.

Perform 3x10 every other day. Once they become easy, perform single legged curls on the ball!! . . #فیزیوتراپی

04/01/2025

Get to know your hamstrings, one of your most important yet problematic muscles in your body. It tends to get overshadowed by the quads and glutes, but the more you know your hammies, the easier it’ll be for you to manage it when it gets tight.

As you can see, its 3 branches help to bend the knee and straighten the hip. Don’t just stretch it, strengthen it more instead! And there are lots more exercises to keep it strong than the ones listed above.

03/01/2025

Shhh…secret’s out! But we’re not surprised! Thank you to the American Press for this article. Link to read more is here:

https://apnews.com/article/be-well-physical-therapy-ffd7de3680fd4e63322cd63085cfbeda

29/12/2024

Always think longterm when it comes to your fitness routine. Not just for a new year. Because you only have one body for life, take good care of it!

#2025

28/10/2024

25/10/2024

Life lately….very heavily meditated. No weird music, no weird chants, no mantras, just learning to embrace quiet within and focus on deep breathing while the external world is hectic.

Thanks to , one of my favorite exercises that Dr. Kyla Pearce teaches is resiliency when facing change by looking at mountains…how they stand tall and withstand so many seasons, storms and harsh conditions yet remain strong through it all regardless of what curveballs life throws its way.

“Change basically means something you didn’t want to happen is happening. But resiliency is being strong in the face of change and learning how to adapt and finding your own strength within.” 💜

We all have busy days that drain our batteries, but self-care means finding just 10 minutes a day to quiet your mind and body to be more in tune with yourself. I hope you all can find that peace within so that you may live with greater ease🧘‍♀️

15/04/2024

Physical therapists are traditionally volunteers at the medical tents at the Boston Marathon, but I had the best time being a cheerleader at Mile 25.

I don’t think most people realize how hard the runners have it at this mile. Most of them are walking, some can barely stand straight, old injuries have blown up but they can see the home stretch.

So there I am, screaming and cheering not just for my 3 patients in the first two pictures, but for everyone getting by. Some runners were even looking for us to cheer them on. They were exhausted. But they all finished.

You’re all winners today. Proud of all of you, esp Tom, Bernie and Marc who do this every year since I’ve known you since 2016 and never give up!

💙🧡

12/04/2024

When you treat a rock climbing patient, you go rock climbing with them. We treat you wherever you get hurt to get you back in the game! 😊🙌