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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

Alpine Physical Therapy Updates Staff Office at Our South Location

It’s remarkable what new paint, new carpeting, and an organized work setting can do. We completely ripped out our old work stations and completely redid everything. Now when we go to work, our productivity has soared, though there is a palpable sense of calm and ease. This was one major remodel. We’ve since updated our [...]

Team Alpine Physical Therapy Rips it up at This Year’s Telemark Challenge

Tele races have been going great for Team Alpine PT. We’re currently tied for 2nd place, and everyone has been doing well. Although team members have been sidelined with whooping caugh, possibly the flu, and too much homework, we’ve all been pushing through on Thursday nights.

Sadly, tonight’s races have been cancelled due to [...]

Oh No, Not a Torn ACL!

She’s been hobbling around since she hurt her knee on the slopes earlier this winter. “It’ll get better,” she convinced herself.

Yet when I checked her knee out tonight, it was clear she’d torn her ACL. Neither of us wanted to admit it. But it was torn.

She could bend her knee all the way. [...]

Fit to Fight Cancer Survivor Program Announces Two Sessions Slated for March

The Fit to Fight program helps cancer survivors return to a quality of life where they can re-establish trust in their bodies and return to daily life as a productive member of their community. Fit to Fight is a ten week small group program designed for cancer survivors who have recently become deconditioned or [...]

In the Saddle in Montana with SI Joint Pain

One thing you don’t need while riding high in Montana is SI joint pain. Often missed or worse yet, ignored, SI joint pain can end up being a real pain in the butt. Sadly, people end up getting incomplete or even incorrect treatment for a malady that can often be treated swiftly and successfully.

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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 [...]

Pregnancy Related Low Back Pain Stops Here!

The causes of low back pain during pregnancy are individual and can be numerous. Through an individualized evaluation performed by one of Alpine’s Her Health physical therapists we can get to the bottom of your pregnancy-related low back.

Possible solutions that we may provide include core strengthening, postural retraining, instruction in sleep position modification, [...]

Seeking Full Time Physical Therapist at Alpine, Missoula’s Top Orthopedic Physical Therapy Clinic

Alpine Physical Therapy, a PT-owned clinic in Missoula, is seeking a candidate with strong manual therapy skills to join our team of 10 therapists. We offer an excellent therapist-to-patient ratio, state-of-the-art equipment, and superb ancillary staff.

Our south clinic is located in Missoula’s Premeir fitness center, the Peak Health and Wellness Center, yielding full [...]

Spinal Manipulation Past and Present

It’s common to think about a chiropractic or osteopathic physician when considering spinal manipulation. Yet physical therapists have been performing spinal manipulation in the US since the very foundation of the Physical Therapy Association in 1921.

Several of the physical therapists at Alpine have advanced certification in manipulative medicine. Using spinal manipulation on a [...]

Pelvic Floor Strengthening: How Much is Enough?

My thanks to [...]