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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

Kegels for Core Strengthening?

Kegels are often thought of as an exercise purely for pregnant or post partum women, when in fact they can be very beneficial for everyone and particularly those people with low back pain. Kegel exercises are one of the most commonly known methods of pelvic floor muscle strengthening. Kegels are most commonly described as tightening [...]

Happy Holidays from Everyone at Alpine Physical Therapy!

From left to right:

Linsey Olson, PT; Dusty Lindeen, PT Aide; Brent Dodge, PT, OCS, CMPT, CSCS; Samantha Schoeneman, PT, CPI; Gary Gales, DPT; Tara Mund, DPT; Jamie Shull, Receptionist; Angela Listug, DPT, CMPT; Lindsey Richards, PT Aide. (Not pictured: Jeannette Kittredge, Billing Specialist).

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What to Expect After a Typical Whiplash Injury: ‘Tis the Season for Icy Roads

Getting in a car accident is a scary thing for anybody. If you know what to expect from your body, it can be a little less scary. The most common injury from a car accident is whiplash in the neck. This means that your neck went through a backward and forward movement forcefully and quickly [...]

Long Term Management of Low Back Pain

While treating patients in the clinic the other day, I had this conversation with two clients. Each conversation centered on the idea that once people with back pain start feeling better, it is human nature to stop doing all the good things you’ve been doing to keep your back healthy. Then your back pain returns [...]