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.
Alpine Physical Therapy was started with the intention of helping as many people with back and neck pain as possible. That was May of 2006. Since then, we’ve treated more than 2,500Missoulians with back and neck pain.
There are several reason we’ve been able to work with so many people in such a short time. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Of all our senses, pain may be one you’d prefer to live without. But pain may be your body’s way of telling you that something isn’t right. That can be a good problem . . . if you listen in and seek a solution sooner, rather than later.
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, [...]
All too often, I hear patients tell me that the pain in their knee must be from arthritis. Then they explain what makes their pain worse, which often defines that their pain is not from arthritis but more likely from other causes. For example, I got a letter from my cousin, who was told her [...]
Looking for ways to improve your running edge? Read this brief intro and article from Runner’s World. If nothing else, it’ll give you some ideas on ways to lead the pack.
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Run Twice a Day to Double Your Edge
Squeeze in two running workouts to boost cardiovascular fitness and gain a [...]
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