Staying Active and Fit During Middle-Age and Beyond
The key to staying active and fit during the fourth decade of life and beyond is to find activities which interest and challenge you physically and mentally. Participate in a variety of sports or activities for overall fitness. Consistency is equally important for life-long fitness and health. Make time in your day for exercise and commit to health and fitness for the long haul. Your body and mind will thank you.
Exercise and Manual Therapy to Manage Headaches
There is some evidence that migraine headaches will respond positively to regular exercise, including both aerobic exercise and resistance exercise. Other types of headache, including tension type headaches and cervicogenic headaches, are more likely to respond positively to manual therapy.
Osgood-Schlatters: Keeping Young Athletes in Sports
One of the most common knee pains for children, Osgood-Schlatters (OSD), can be a very challenging time for a young athlete. It can keep them off the field, away from their friends, inactive, and frustrated.
Here’s Why You Keep Getting Injured, According to a Physical Therapist.
This ultrarunner and doctor of physical therapy sees a common pattern in her running clients. Here’s what she wishes she could tell us all before we get injured.
Sapphire Physical Therapy Celebrates Twenty-Eight Year Anniversary
Missoula has changed quite a bit since 1994, and so has Sapphire Physical Therapy. As we celebrate our twenty-eight years in business, it is important to reflect on the path we have taken and the one we plan to follow for years to come.
Top Exercises for Managing Ankle Injuries
Are you suffering from weak ankles? Are you always rolling or spraining your ankles? Are you battling with foot/ankle tendon injuries? Try these exercises to improve your foot and ankle strength and stability.
Performance Benefits of Heat Acclimation for Athletes
Summers in Missoula continue to get warmer & for many that means setting the alarm earlier for their workouts. However, research shows that heat training can be very beneficial in preparation for races & overall exercise performance. Perhaps hitting snooze & moving your exercise plans to a warmer time of day, isn’t such a bad idea! Learn more about what heat training is, its benefits, & how to get started below.
Understanding & Addressing IT Band Pain
Whether you enjoy biking, camping, hiking, or trail running, summer is the best time of year to live in Big Sky country and enjoy the outdoors. Here at Sapphire PT, we work with a lot of patients who have running-related pains and one of the most common is the IT band.
Carbon Fiber Plated Running Shoes: Are they right for you and your feet?
As runners, we are constantly on the lookout for the next great shoe, hoping to find the Holy Grail of running shoes. I am guilty of owning an embarrassingly large number of running shoes. While each pair serves a different function, I am still waiting for the shoe which does it all.
Calf Raises, Criterion for Norm
Manual muscle testing has been a standard clinical measure used to assess muscle forces since the early 1900s by Lovett and Wright.1,2 Originally developed in response to polio’s impact on muscular strength in children, this grading system has since been cultivated to allow physical therapists the ability to subjectively assess and grade muscular strength for the sole purpose of identifying areas of weakness and limb asymmetries in all ages.1 Research has also produced functional standards to help assess strength without needing a doctorate degree. One of the quickest and easiest tests to perform is the single leg calf raise.