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acl reconstruction

May 23, 2023 · In: Injuries and Surgeries, Science-Backed Education

ACL Stability: How to Improve Strength for Return to Sport

One of the most common injuries of the knee involves ACL injuries. Your ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), along with many other ligaments, provides stability to your knee. When the ACL…

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how to strengthen knees

May 16, 2023 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

How to Strengthen Knees for Function and Performance

One common question I frequently hear of is how to strengthen knees, whether it is for athletic performance, going on hikes, or going up and down the stairs. This article…

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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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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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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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I got back from vacation this week and it’s that s I got back from vacation this week and it’s that specific feeling a lot of people are having right now…trips wrapping up, summer easing into the back half, and the to-do list doesn’t ease you back in with you.

By day two, my body had already picked up right where it left off. Nothing dramatic was happening, just returning to work and a to-do list, and I noticed I was moving through it revved, like the trip never happened.

That’s when it hit me: this isn’t about how busy the day actually is. I’ve trained myself to stay revved, even when the crazy part of the day is over.

Every productivity hack is built to get you through the list faster. None of them ask what your nervous system is doing while you’re crushing it.

Lately I’ve been testing a different question while I do the boring stuff, the emails, the errands, the folding, and the unpacking. Not how fast can I get this done, but how calm can I be while I’m doing it?

The task itself never changes. What changes is what my body is doing underneath it and that’s the part that actually decides how the rest of the day goes.

Save this for the next time you notice yourself running hot through a day that’s actually pretty calm.

#productivityhabits #productivitytip #calmoverchaos #chronicstressrecovery #chronicstress
Calming the body’s alarm and rebuilding the body a Calming the body’s alarm and rebuilding the body are two different jobs. The order matters.

Sometimes calming the mind and body is as simple as wind moving through the trees, water running over rock, birds going back and forth, and your feet in the grass or the sand.

Research has found that nature sounds pull the nervous system out of fight-or-flight and toward rest and digest. The body reads these sounds as a signal that it’s safe. Meditation, a quiet minute alone, and a massage all work too. Nature is just one more way to get there.

Here’s the part almost nobody names. Calm is only step one. Regulation quiets the signal, but it doesn’t rebuild the tissue, the capacity, or the tolerance that let the trigger through in the first place. Skip that second job and you’re stuck resetting the same alarm on a loop, wondering why the tools that used to help stopped working.

Regulate, then rebuild, and layer in the habits. Skipping the middle step is what breaks the whole sequence.

What’s the tool that calms you down. Tell me in the comments, I want to know what you’re using.

#regulationtools #nervoussystemregulation #mindbodywellness #quietthemind #regulateandrebuild
Breathwork and relaxation for the mind before bed, Breathwork and relaxation for the mind before bed, the journal half filled in, and a nightly routine preparing me for the wind down…every regulation tool in the toolbox and I’m still bracing for the pain that faces me in the morning like my body never got the memo.

That confused me for a long time. Feeling like I was doing all the right things and yet, still feeling like I hadn’t moved an inch. I kept assuming I was missing a tool, so I added another and another.

What actually moved things was different: regulate, then rebuild, then layer in the habits. Regulation was never meant to carry the whole job alone.

If you’ve run the checklist and you’re still exhausted, you are not broken. You are dysregulated. And dysregulation needs the next step in the order, not another tool.

Tag the person who has tried everything and still feels like this.

#nervoussystemregulation #regulateyournervoussystem #mindbodyconnection #chronicpainawareness
For two years I thought I had stopped being discip For two years I thought I had stopped being disciplined.

I had the program written down. The weekly schedule, the reps, and the rest days all set. I was checking the box on most of the workouts, but feeling like I was failing them.

I was using lighter weights and cutting sessions shorter. The same plan that used to feel easy now felt like more than I can keep up with.

The program had not changed. My system had.

What I was carrying outside the workouts was larger than what I’d been carrying during the years I thought of as ‘being disciplined.’ I had less of the underlying resource the workout plan was assuming.

That underlying resource is capacity. The amount of load your system can absorb in a given week without flaring. Stress, sleep, hormones, recovery, the demands you can’t postpone. The plan you are not ‘keeping up with’ was built for the version of you that had more of all of it.

Save this for the week the plan feels bigger than your system can carry.

#capacitybuilding #regulateyournervoussystem #strengthbuilding #highachievingwomen
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