4 Ways to Safely Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions
In the spirit of optimism and support, we salute your new year’s resolutions, whatever they may be. In our experience, what separates those who achieve their new year’s resolutions and…
What are the Best Exercises for Obese Patients?
Training obese and overweight clients require a balanced, incremental approach. Immobility and the inherent risk for injury, heart attack, and even stroke—it all makes starting with basic movements and stabilization…
Where The American Diet Went Wrong: What We Can Learn From The Healthiest People On Earth
In the 1930s, an American dentist named Weston A. Price made it his mission to discover what was responsible for optimal dental health. For over 10 years he traveled to…
Moonwalking to a Healthy Weight
You’ve heard the eye-brow-raising statistics: 66 percent of Americans are overweight and almost 38 percent of all of us are obese. That rate is alarmingly higher than it was a…
Physical Therapy Boosts Orthopedic and Bariatric Surgery Outcomes for Obese Patients
Most people recognize that an exercise program is critical to weight management and weight loss. But for adult obese patients who are prospects for bariatric or orthopedic surgery, this concept…
Age, Obesity, And Arthritis: How To Help Patients Overcome All 3
Remember when normal wear and tear was the main culprit for knee osteoarthritis? With a growing obesity epidemic, joint degradation—and pain—often come from excessive weight, according to a September 2010…
Kick Your Osteoarthritis Pain to the Curb with AlterG
Let’s do a quick thought experiment. I want you to consider the word “aging” and all that it connotes for you. Now close your eyes and craft a mental picture…
Easily Achieve your 2016 Fitness Resolutions
It may be cliché, but the “New Year-new you” spirit is here again. By now we are all well-aware that, in order to achieve optimal health, we need to get…