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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.

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Runner’s, Double Your Fun for Added Results

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 competitive edge at [...]

Defining Knee Pain

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 [...]

Is Your Pain Talking to You?

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.

Another problem with pain is that when [...]

Lifestyle and Longevity

My thanks to [...]

Free Online Orthopedic Patient Resources at Alpine Physical Therapy

We’ve been creating and providing online resources for orthopedic patients since the early days of the Internet. Our websites at Alpine, including our blog, attract a number of people who discover some of the best graphics and topics on the web.

People seeking health information are online, and they want quality information. We took efforts [...]