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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

When to Choose Physical Therapy for Knee Arthritis

View this informative video podcast as Alpine’s Angela Listug-Vap, DPT, discusses knee osteoarthritis.

What is it? How can physical therapy help people with it? And what can you do to help yourself when dealing with knee osteoarthritis?

For more information on this topic, you’re invited to read our informative and illustrated patient [...]

See First-Hand Alpine’s Newest Exercise Technology

Short ‘n sweet. In fact, just 30 seconds is all you’ll need to see first-hand the new buzz in Missoula. It’s Alpine’s latest step toward pioneering the next wave of high-end fitness in Missoula and on our planet!

Be the first to get a grander scope of this new technology on our website [...]

Meet Missoula’s Master Physical Therapy Clinician

Few physical therapists go on to tackle advanced residency training. At last count, only 3% do. Nor do many achieve “Fellow” status.

Alpine’s Angela Listug-Vap has accomplished both. In fact, Angela is the only Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists in the state of Montana.

The following interview with Dr. Randale [...]

July is All About Missoula at Alpine Physical Therapy

Alpine Physical Therapy is a tightly knit team. Certainly the phrase “there is no ‘I’ in team” rings true for all the star players at Alpine.

For example, we pulled together for two annual events including the fourth annual Missoula Marathon as well as our second annual Alpine river float trip on July 11th and [...]

Scott’s Mount Rainier Training Report

July 23rd

Just over a week to go before I start my climb to the top of Mt. Rainier! I’m feeling pretty excited, also a bit nervous as the big moment approaches, and there has been some drama just to keep things exciting! In the last couple of weeks I’ve put in as much [...]

Play Safely Amid Missoula’s Park and Rec Games

Summer in Missoula – the city of sports and recreation is alive, and so too are injuries for those of us closer to retirement than high school. Alpine PT has an Adult Co-Rec Soccer Team in the “C” League.

The “C” is the most basic and beginner league in the soccer leagues. On our Alpine [...]

Alpine PT Published in National Resource for Physical Therapists

I recently submitted an article to a national resource for physical therapists on a new form of exercise pioneered by Alpine Physical Therapy. I plan to add monthly segments on this and other topics to this national resource, called The PT Project. The aim of this resource is to provide news and information to physical [...]

Alpine’s Meg Fischer Repeats as U.S. Paratriathlon Champ

Meg writes to us: I got back from an 8 day whirlwind adventure last night; first to Chicago for four road criterion races and then to New York City for ParaNationals.

It was a successful trip, yet I’m pleased to be home!! I leave tomorrow afternoon for a 5 day trip to London, England. As [...]

Missoula’s Scott Woods Readies Himself for Mt. Rainier Ascent

Need some inspiration? Then I encourage you to read an excerpt from Scott Woods’ training blog as he undergoes intense training for his upcoming climb to the top of Mount Rainier. A climb like that would be tough to say the least. I gather it would be a whole lot harder for a man like [...]

Missoula’s Fit To Fight Program in the News

Thanks to reporter Michael Moore and the Missoulian for their recent informative article on the Fit to Fight program co-founded by Alpine’s Samantha Schoeneman, PT.

The article is an inspiration to all, as it details the training that Scott Woods is undergoing as he prepares to climb Mount Rainier. A survivor of lung cancer, Scott [...]