Health and Fitness 101

The only program of its kind in Missoula, Fit to Fight is a ten-week small group program designed by Alpine physical Therapist Sam Schoeneman for cancer survivors who have recently become deconditioned or chronically fatigued from their treatment and or disease.

The program continues to draw a number of people. And the feedback we receive bolsters our notion that this program effects helpful change in this amazing group of survivors.

I’ll let Sam introduce this new and exciting program in the following video:

For more information, visit the Fit to Fight page on our clinic website by clicking here.

It’s time again for another Coaches’ Clinic, presented by Alpine Physical Therapy.

Special guest Dr. Michael Woods, MD, of Missoula Bone and Joint will teach a segment on Hip and Lower Leg Injuries.

Our Sports Physical Therapists will present on:

• SPRINTT program
• Improving athletic performance
• Treatment for hamstring injuries
• Prevention and treatment of shin splints

Our Athletic Trainers will present on:

• Hot topics on nutrition
• Hot topics on “Taping for Coaches”

When: March 10, 2010, 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Where: Peak Health & Wellness Center, 5000 Blue Mountain Rd.

Cost: $10.00. Call 251-2323 to RSVP.

Space limited to 40! Hurry!

(Licensed Athletic Trainers: Receive 2 NATA CEU’s.)

Bob Botkin is Missoula’s premiere sports medicine physical therapist and athletic trainer. When you mix him together with Alpine Physical Therapy and the Peak Health and Wellness Center you get the best that sports medicine has to offer.

Bob is a gift to Alpine. He’s a U of M graduate, both in Health and Human Performance (’93) and in Physical Therapy (’05). Stir in his certification as an Athletic Trainer and the mix is volatile. We found that out when he joined our practice in 2008.

Since that time, our outreach to area high schools, athletes, and coaches has skyrocketed. Bob now needs to be cloned. Doctors and other referral sources ask for Bob by name. He’s an Alpine super star.

Learn more about Bob by clicking here to read his CV.

Our North clinic manager Angela Listug-Vap, DPT, FAAOMPT,  recently attended the annual conference in Washington DC of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists. Find out the two “hot” pieces of information she took away form the event and how that will impact our work at Alpine.

For more information on the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists, visit their website by clicking here.

Last night, all our full time staff members and physical therapists met for our annual Vision Quest.

Our aim was to discover the dream and vision of each team member and to determine how Alpine can help everyone achieve his or her career goal.

It was a great opportunity to review our mission, vision, and core values. I thought you might be interested in knowing more about us by knowing these as well. So here goes:

Our Vision Established and thriving in Missoula, Montana, Alpine Physical Therapy continues to exceed the expectations of our community and our team.

Our Mission We reduce pain and maximize performance through expert, effective, and caring physical therapy services.

Our Core Values

• Expertise
• Care
• Innovation
• Community
• Relationship
• Contemporary

Thanks for taking a few moments to know us better!

Meet Sam Schoeneman, one of the world’s only Master Instructors with CoreAlign. Sam completed her intensive testing last week in San Diego.

She joins 11 other Master Instructors of this brand new form of exercise technology.

Sam is the master mind behind the explosion of Pilates at Alpine. She is now taking the lead in CoreAlign.

As a Master Instructor, Sam will train all of our physical therapists in becoming certified in Level I of CoreAlign on April 2nd and 3rd.

Here’s a smiling Sam (pictured right) as she receives her hard earned certification (and a hug) from CoreAlign inventor, Jonathan Hoffman.

The word is out. Alpine is ushering in a brand new form of exercise technology. In fact, the first actual pieces of equipment are hot off the press and nearly ready for delivery.

We expect to receive our shipment of three brand new CoreAlign units on March 15th. That’s good news for our staff, our patients, and our future clients in Missoula and surrounding areas.

Angela and I both completed the course and lab work to attain certification as CoreAlign instructors.Here’s a picture of us completing our final test for certification.

We’ll both be assisting Sam Schoeneman, one of 12 Master Instructors on the globe, with certifying all of our physical therapists on April 2nd and 3rd.

Here’s a picture of our graduating class, only the 4th group ever to go through their certification for CoreAlign 1.

Everything is heating up for CoreAlign to take the world by storm, and we’re proud at Alpine Physical Therapy to be pioneering tomorrow’s technology. . .today.

Stay tuned!

Cutting edge is an understatement. Remember when Pilates took the fitness and rehab world by storm? Well Alpine is couched to deliver to Missoula and Western Montana a brand new form of exercise and rehab.

Introducing the CoreAlign. Some experts say that the CoreAlign will make an impact as big or bigger than the elliptical trainer made in the 90s.

Three of our clinic managers are enjoying the weather here in San Diego while taking a certification course for CoreAlign. Get this. Ours is only the 4th such course to ever be presented in the history of this new approach.

Check out this picture of Angela as Sam and I, along with the inventor of the CoreAlign, Jonathan Hoffman.

For more information on the CoreAlign, check out HoffmanConcept.com.

To remain licensed as a physical therapist in Montana, 20 contact hours of continuing education are required every two years.

Notably, all of the physical therapists at Alpine receive $1,000 annually for continuing education, enabling all of us to go well beyond the minimum!

In fact, I’m flying out on Friday to San Diego to attend two different continuing education courses.

The first is entitled Part II: Cervicothoracic Dysfunction & Cervicogenic Headaches: Diagnosis & Management with HVLA Thrust Manipulation & Exercise.  Simply put, this is an advanced class on using spinal manipulation and exercise for neck pain and headaches.

Then on Wednesday, I meet up with two other Alpine physical therapists, Sam and Angela. Sam will finalize her certification as a Master Instructor for CoreAlign®. Angela and I will be in class on Wednesday and Thursday taking our Level I Certification for CoreAlign®.

I’ll keep you in the loop over the next week on the weather in San Diego, the courses I’ll be taking, and the additional fun I can hopefully integrate while there!

Alpine proudly accepted the opportunity to participate in an exclusive advertising promotional with the Missoulian.

This time, we went front and center on the special Winter Olympics page. Be sure to check out this link often during the day for updates on the Winter Olympics.

Click here for the direct link, and check out the cool banner ad for Alpine at the top!