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Welcome to Health and Fitness 101, a blog for people who enjoy the Montana lifestyle.
The aim of our blog is to interpret, distill, and then deliver to you the threads that bind physical medicine with applicable health and fitness ideas and principles.
It's all about helping to connect the dots that foster optimal human function and, ultimately, superior performance. Feel better. Perform better.

Missoula Area Events

Got Back Pain? Try Physical Therapy First

Got back pain? If so you are not alone. In fact, eight of 10 Americans will experience back pain at some time in their lives. Of these people, nine out of 10, fully 90 percent, will have recurring episodes of low back pain . . . the kind of back pain that happens again and [...]

Prenatal Aquatic Exercise: Fitness for the Mother-to-be

Gone are the days when a pregnant mother was best suited to sitting on the couch and watching her belly grow. In fact, recent guidelines suggest that most pregnant women should engage in at least 30 minutes of moderately intense exercise on most days of the week.

Regular exercise during pregnancy promises a wide [...]

Alpine Brings Pilates Home to Western Montana

Alpine Physical Therapy proudly announces its recent ribbon-cutting ceremony in celebration of the grand opening of its brand new Pilates studio. Our studio is complete with top-named equipment, such as Balanced Body and STOTT. And our therapy staff offers Certified Pilates Instruction under the direction of Samantha Schoeneman, PT, CPI.

Here’s what [...]

Golf Fitness: The ‘Titleist Advantage’ at Alpine

A few years back, I had an “Aha” moment. It was the perfect concoction. Sort of like the mad scientist who mixes the perfect combination of chemicals and creates something that gives you a much bigger bang for your buck. That combination which I discovered is the world of golf fitness.

I knew there was [...]