Sticking with Your Exercise Program in 2024
Exercise and fitness-related New Year's resolutions are always popular. Riding the New Year momentum makes starting an exercise program in January easy. But now that it's February, it can be hard to stick to it. Life gets busy, the weather is terrible, motivation drops, and the excitement has worn off. Time magazine has estimated that 80, we asked PhysioPartners' therapists for their best tips to keep exercising through the February dip and into the spring.
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Posted on 2024-02-02
Home Exercises Magnify Your Investment in Your Health
Completing Your Home Exercises Magnifies Effects of Your Physical Therapist's Care
If you've been to physical therapy, you likely received a home exercise program. Research says that if you do your home exercise program, you'll have a significantly better chance of meeting your goals and feeling better. Not doing your program increases the risk of recurrent injury or flare-ups with less positive outcomes long term. Unfortunately, even though they're important, adherence to home exercise program...
Posted on 2022-06-05
Don’t Let Winter Put a Freeze on Your Fitness
By Joseph Ascher, PT, DPT
Days are getting shorter, temperatures are dropping, and leaves are starting to fall. Don’t let shorter days shorten your fitness activities and slow you down. A recent study published in the Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that sedentary time increased in autumn despite multiple strategies to curb it (Meyer et al, 2018). That’s the bad news, but the good news is that groups that participated in an aerobic exerci...
Posted on 2018-10-08
“Body, Heal Thyself!” How To Achieve Better Health Through Good Sleep Habits
By Jennifer Nelson, PT, DPT, DscPT
How do you wind down from a stressful day at work? Even if a good workout is your preferred method, most people don’t exercise right before bedtime. Instead, up to 90% of Americans use some sort of electronic device at least a few nights of the week within 1 hour of going to bed. Whether it is your smart phone, laptop, TV, or settling in with an e-reader to wind down before bed, recent research is suggesting that use of those items may&...
Posted on 2018-04-23
A Season of Comfort Food: Promoting Optimal Health and Healing Throughout the Holidays
By Rachel Krupski, Student Physical Therapist
With the holidays and “sweater weather” right around the corner, healthy eating often goes by the wayside as comfort foods begin to fill our plates. However, we sometimes forget about the effect that our diet has on our overall health. Many foods have the potential to promote healing, reduce pain, and reduce throughout the body. While its tempting to throw healthy eating out the window as swimsuit season quickly fades away, co...
Posted on 2016-10-11
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