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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

First Time with Low Back Pain?

Does this sound familiar? I had a few days of back pain a year ago, but it went away. No big deal. Right?

                                                 

Well actually it can be the start of a painful path if you don’t re-train your true core muscles. Earlier blogs described what muscles actually make up our ‘core’ including the transverse abdominals, [...]

Alpine, the Exclusive PT Sponsor of the Missoula Marathon

Alpine Physical Therapy is the yearly and exclusive physical therapy sponsor of the Missoula Marathon.  This prestigious sponsorship puts us face-to-face with runners of all skill levels, giving us opportunities to provide consultation to all participants and to present numerous training seminars for area marathoners.

Our team of seven physical therapists provides both pre- and post-race [...]

Safe Lifting this Spring

For the following blog entry, I express thanks to Lindsy Olson who recently interned at Alpine and who just completed her Doctorate at University of Montana’s School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science.

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With the recent nice change in weather here in Missoula, it is that time of year for “spring cleaning”, both indoors and out, as [...]

2008 Mother’s Day Eve Bash

Line up the sitters and ditch the dads. This is just for mamas!  A party for moms on the night before Mother’s Day.  This is for new moms, old moms, grandmothers, step-moms, and aspiring mothers to celebrate together. 

This year promises to be bigger and better than ever, with more volunteers, prizes, massages (thanks MT School [...]