Resolutions rely on motivation. Persistence relies on adaptability. You don’t need another resolution—you need a way to keep going when life gets messy (and your legs hurt sitting down on the toilet).

You know that moment when one tiny movement suddenly makes your back (or neck, or hip) scream—and you didn’t even do anything “wrong”? Our instinct is usually to stop everything, lie down, and wait it out. But what if the thing that helps most isn’t rest… it’s intentional movement? “Motion is lotion” isn’t just a catchy PT phrase—it’s grounded in how our joints, muscles, and nervous system actually heal. And when done correctly, movement can be the key to stopping acute pain from turning into chronic pain.

Following an injury we often reach for the RICE Method as this has been the go-to method for over 20 years. Over the last 20 years more research has been done by multiple researchers showing that the Rest. Ice. Compress, Elevate method actually inhibits healing — the opposite of what we’re looking for. The new proposed method is PEACE & LOVE. The focus of this method is allow the body to heal how it wants to - “body knows best”. While also encouraging movement/exercise to increase blood flow to the injury for healing. The body is made to move and when it rests it actually can exacerbate the injury. 

This means that even in healthcare there is not ONE way to improve all your symptoms.

This is a question that I’ve been receiving more frequently lately. How about I share some statistics that have been published…

Physical therapy as we know it today was not always this streamlined. As several things start due to war so did physical therapy.

Back in World War I (1917), reconstruction aides (“re-aides”) were recognized part of the medical team to “reconstruct”...

There is a new trend on social media (specifically TikTok) about barefoot shoes. There is also a lot of truth to what is being said about the benefits of switching to these types of shoes…

When we talk about healing from injury, we often focus only on the physical tissue. But every injury is also a trauma to the nervous system and the mind. When the mental and emotional layers are ignored, pain has a way of sticking around—sometimes for years. Chronic pain isn’t just about what happened to your body; it’s about what your body learned to protect you from. True healing requires a full-human approach, one that rebuilds trust, safety, and movement together.

The human body is a majorly complex ecosystem. If everything works exactly how it “should” then we wouldn’t experience chronic pain, popping/cracking, etc. Although, we are all human and life is constantly throwing us curveballs…

I would like to take the time to identify that this is not woo-woo. This is actually science. What makes it woo-woo to a lot of us is that our healthcare society has divided up every aspect of the human body (or rather tried to) and made it so that crossing “lines” is a bad thing and should be avoided. In actuality, we should take time to look and listen to what the human in front of us is saying and progress from there…

Let’s first start with the definition of mobility: noun, the ability to move freely and easily. What is important to take from this definition is that mobility is an ACTIVE motion. Whereas if we look at flexibility: noun, the ability to bend easily without breaking…

This may seem a little out there since most of us live our lives with our calendars and to-do lists to check off each tasks. In addition, we also find ourselves with upset stomachs, difficulty falling or staying asleep, frequent colds, etc. My bet is that the connection to you has been severed…