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shoulder mobility exercises

April 18, 2023 · In: Mobility and Restoration, Movement

Shoulder Mobility Exercises: Proven Stretches to Unlock Your Mobility

Shoulders feeling stiff, tight, and achy? Having difficulty reaching forward, upward, or behind your back? Then try these 5 physical therapy approved shoulder mobility exercises to get you back to…

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sports physical therapy

April 11, 2023 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

Sports Physical Therapy: A Rehab Approach for High Performance

Sports physical therapy is a specialty in the world of physical therapy. It covers everything from rehabilitation after surgery, recovery from an injury, injury prevention, rest and recovery, and fine…

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physical therapy exercises for knee pain

April 4, 2023 · In: Mobility and Restoration, Movement

Physical Therapy Exercises for Knee Pain: How to Reduce Arthritic Pain

According to the Cleveland Clinic, around 46% of people will develop knee osteoarthritis (OA) in their lifetime. OA is a wearing away of the cartilage within the joint. This is…

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mobility stretches app

March 14, 2023 · In: Mobility and Restoration, Movement

7 Mobility Stretches so You Can Make it Through Your Day Pain Free

Mobility stretches are important as they help promote blood flow and improve movement and joint mobility. There are common areas of the body that tend to get stiff over the…

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resistance band rehab exercises

March 7, 2023 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

5 Best Shoulder Strengthening Exercises for Healthy Movement and Stability

When it comes to shoulder strengthening exercises, physical therapists want to target the specific muscles that are weak. While weak muscles may differ from person to person, there are certain…

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mobility physical therapy exercises

February 28, 2023 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

Mobility Therapy: How Can it Help Me Move Better?

Mobility therapy aims to improve how you move. Physical therapists strive to not only improve mobility, but to restore function to limbs and the rest of the body and improve…

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full body exercises no equipment

February 14, 2023 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

7 Physical Therapy Strengthening Exercises for the Full Body

Maintaining your body’s strength and muscle mass is important for your overall health, especially as we age. As movement experts, physical therapists are familiar with which muscle groups are commonly…

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February 7, 2023 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

Physical Therapy Movement Expert | 5 Handy Tips on How to Feel and Move Better

A physical therapy movement expert can help get rid of your pain and address your areas of concern. Why are physical therapists movement experts? Because we are taught to analyze…

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I'm a practicing physical therapist based out of sunny SoCal who loves to educate others and share information and knowledge. You can typically find me hard at work trying to manage normal life or cuddled up under a blanket enjoying coffee or desserts I can never seem to get away from!

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It’s June. You set a goal in January to stop crash It’s June. You set a goal in January to stop crashing on weekends. You’re still crashing on weekends and now you’re blaming yourself for that, too.

It’s Friday night. You’ve made it through the deadline week. You can’t even think about what to make for dinner…it’s too much. You scroll for hours. You go to bed early thinking sleep will fix it. Saturday morning you wake up worse than you were on Friday and the thought that lands is “why is this so hard, it’s just work, I should be able to handle this.”

Your nervous system was running in elevated mode all week. Cortisol up, heart rate up, fatigue signals overridden to keep the output going. Once the demand drops, the body downshifts and the fatigue you’ve been overriding all week comes through. The crash isn’t new. It’s the same fatigue you’ve been carrying, finally surfacing.

But, the body isn’t the hard part of this. The hard part is what you do with yourself once the crash hits. You confuse rest with being unproductive and feeling unproductive with being inadequate. The moment you crash, you become the sole believer of the thought that you’ve failed.

No one else is thinking that. Not your family, not your colleagues, not your friends. You’re the only voice in the room running that thought. I’ve watched myself do this too.

When the crash lands this Saturday, notice who’s telling you the truth about the week you just had. The body is honest. The voice calling you a failure is not.

#burnoutrecovery #chronicpain #burnoutfatigue #highachievingwomen #nervoussystemregulation
April + May (because I forgot about April) 🙈 Lots April + May (because I forgot about April) 🙈

Lots of food pics as I reminisce about all the tasty food I can’t have while Alex and I do the ProLon fasting mimicking diet for the next 5 days 😬
Some of the work does not look like work at all. Some of the work does not look like work at all.

Sometimes it looks like rest. Sometimes it looks like saying no. Sometimes it looks like doing 10 minutes when you wish you could do 60. Sometimes it looks like sitting on the couch and letting the day be small.

If you are someone who has spent your whole life proving you can push through, this part of the work will feel like failure at first. But try looking at it like this instead: it is part of what your nervous system has been asking you for the whole time.

A little reminder ❤️

#chronicpain #nervoussystemawareness #restisimportant #mentalawareness
I am not posting this from the other side of a fla I am not posting this from the other side of a flare. I am posting it from inside one.

For two weeks I have been doing the work I teach… pacing, resting, listening, modifying. None of it has fixed it.

And I have caught myself spiraling into the exact thoughts I would gently redirect a patient out of. “I should know better.” “I am the expert in this.” “What am I doing wrong?”

Here is what this flare has reminded me. Knowing the framework does not exempt you from living inside it. A regulated nervous system is not a permanent state. It is a relationship you keep coming back to. And the moments when nothing is working are not proof you are doing it wrong. They are proof your body is asking for something you have not figured out how to give it yet.

If you are in it too right now, I am right there with you. Tell me what is in your bucket this week. Let’s all share some support with one another.

#nervoussystemhealth #chronicpainawareness #chronicpainsupport #painflare #mindbodyconnection
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