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.
Warm weather is here. Sort of. And with the rise in temperatures comes a rise in the number of people afflicted with running fever. Resultantly, there’ll be a rise in people with shin splints. Happens every spring.
Pain along the front or inside edge of the shinbone (tibia) is commonly referred to as shin [...]
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.
Okay. At Alpine Physical Therapy we haven’t figured out yet how to make physical therapy as easy as a drive through. But we have taken steps to provide convenient access to physical therapy for people on both ends of Missoula.
To the south, we’re located within the prestigious Peak Health and Wellness Center on the [...]
Nice work out there last week. I think we have the makings for a pretty sweet team. I look forward to more game time to hone our passing skillz and relative field positions.
By now you may have heard, the community of Missoula has an incredible program for cancer fighters. It is a cancer support group based on exercise, wellness, and education called Fit to Fight. The program is a non-profit that is supported largely by many volunteer hours, in-kind donations, Alpine Physical Therapy, and the Peak [...]
As a participant in twice-weekly CoreAlign classes over the past 6 months, I’ve discovered that learning how to do all the new exercises properly is one thing. Being able to then teach someone else the exercisers takes things to a new dimension. Nevertheless, seven seasoned instructors, with backgrounds in physical therapy, Pilates, and fitness, put [...]
Alpine Physical Therapy will, for the 5th consecutive year, be the 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.
Gone are the days when playing various court sports, like tennis, squash, and handball, was simply a matter of fun. These days, it’s a matter of playing your best . . . and staying free of injuries. Enter sport biomechanics.
That was the approach taken by sport specialist and physical therapist, [...]
Integrating Pilates and CoreAlign exercise methods within a physical therapy center is unique. Discover how Alpine Physical Therapy has combined these powerful exercise approaches within its new health facility and why this model is poised to help people take their health and fitness to the next level.
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