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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

Kick Your Sport Performance in Gear with Proper Sport Biomechanics

Take the guess work out of ratcheting up your fitness and recreational sport performance. Expert physical therapist Leah Versteegen spells it out in this brief video interview on Sports Biomechanics.

From alignment to muscle balance, discover what her thorough evaluation identifies and the corrective actions that can take your game to the next level.

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Tips for Adjusting Your Chair at Work

It’s the end of the work day. Your legs are tired, your feet ache, and your back is sore. To top it off, you’ve got neck pain and a headache.

To avoid these and other problems, consider taking a few moments to properly adjust your chair.

Join me in a brief video segment from my new online [...]

Breaking News: Back Pain Stops Here!

Too often, the medical world makes learning about back pain . . .  a pain. I created BackCare101.com to make it easy for people to learn about their condition. Imagine sitting upright and with good posture while learning all the ins and outs of how the back works and what you can do if back [...]

Missoula, Home to a Brand New Resource for People with Back Pain

Back pain. It impacts 8 of 10 people in industrialized nations. Of these folks, fully 90 percent go on to have recurring back pain, the kind that strikes again and again.

As a nationally certified spine specialist in physical therapy for the past 20 years, I’ve treated scores of people with back pain. Yet there are [...]

Breakthrough for Fast Relief at Work

New breakthroughs in pain relief are flowing through the pipeline. Over 20 years, I’ve worked with numerous people who suffer from neck pain, headaches, muscle tension, and stress while working at a computer.

Through my work with John Iams, a San Diego based physical therapist and inventor of Primal Reflex Release Technique® (PRRT), I learned a [...]

Tips for Triathlon Gold at 75

Imagine what it would take to win first place in the world triathlon competition for your age group, particularly if your age is 75! Watch as Brad Leonard describes the steps he took in 2009 to win World in Australia at 75 years old.

For more information [...]

CrossFit Craze in Missoula

By shear serendipity, I discovered CrossFit four years ago. I clicked a link embedded in the email of a doctor I know in Arizona. The link took me to the website of CrossFit.

After devouring the info on CrossFit’s website, I installed a pull up bar in my living room, bought some weights, a medicine ball, [...]

Take Recreational Fitness & Sports Biomechanics to New Heights

You’ll benefit greatly by attending our upcoming free course at the Peak Health & Wellness Center. Co-taught by Alpine’s Leah Versteegen, DPT and Leslie Brandt, DPT, this course is titled Recreational Fitness and Sports Biomechanics.

The class will run about 45 minutes starting at 1 PM in the cycling room and then again at [...]