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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 Wraps its Hands Around the Missoula Marathon

Missoula was host again to yet another successful annual marathon. Alpine Physical Therapy, the exclusive physical therapy sponsor of the Missoula Marathon, was there in full force, both at the Expo on Saturday and on race day.

We provided over 110 massages for runners of both the 1/2 and full marathon runs. It was absolutely [...]

KPAX Features The Core Studio for Summer Exercise

Thanks to Dr. Brad Pickhardt and KPAX for inviting Alpine Physical Therapy’s [...]

Honk if You Love Alpine!

I love driving around Missoula, especially since I had my ’03 Avalanche detailed, which includes new wheels and tires. It also includes new decals with our logo and contact info. Check it out!

When Reserve is backed up, as it often is, I’m usually right in the middle of it all with a big [...]

A Reverse Twist for Treating Golfer’s Elbow

In Monday’s t blog post, I linked you to a cool and effective twist on how to treat Tennis Elbow. Today’s blog is a reverse twist. It’s simple, yet very effective. Check it out:

Reverse Tyler Twist for Golfer’s Elbow

(Thanks to The Thera-Band Academy)

Recently, New York physical therapist Tim Tyler developed and researched [...]

New Twist for Treating Tennis Elbow

Well known physical therapist Timothy Tyler has a quick and effective method for treating troublesome elbow pain. This is great news if you’ve been suffering from tennis elbow. Timothy has taken a time-tested method and made it rather simple and inexpensive for people to do. And the results are great! Here’s a summary of the [...]