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Under Armour’s Best Shoes for Your Next Run!

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Post published:November 27, 2020
Post category:Baltimore Physical Therapy Running Shopping

Whether you're shopping for yourself or someone else, you shouldn't pass up Under Armour's Black Friday Deals! Under Armour has set itself apart from its competitors in team sports gear. Their running shoe line has expanded and has added Bluetooth connectivity to pair with Map My Run to enhance your training. In addition, their shoes vary in weight and support structure to fit a wide range of athletes. With all that variation, it can be hard to pick out the perfect pair. To make your shopping easier, our Doctors of…

This Crossfit workout is known as a "Chelsea"

What’s an EMOM?

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Post published:November 20, 2020
Post category:Crossfit Exercises Physical Therapy

EMOM Definition EMOM stands for “Every Minute On the Minute” and refers to a specific work out format where designated movements are started at the beginning of every minute, with any remaining time within that minute being used as rest and recovery. For example, if you see a workout written as “10 minute EMOM, 10 push ups,” you will complete 10 push ups at the top of every minute for 10 minutes. EMOMs can be tailored to various goals including building muscular endurance, improving cardiovascular capacity, building muscular strength,…

Mobility & Stability within Yoga

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Post published:November 6, 2020
Post category:Exercises Physical Therapy Yoga

What is Mobility and Stability? Two primary areas we focus on in yoga are mobility and stability. Mobility is defined as the ability to move freely and with ease. Stability is defined as the ability to maintain control of joint movement or position. It is important to focus on both aspects equally, as too much of one can be bad for your body. I am sure many of you recall the childhood song “dem bones”, and it is no lie that the entire body is connected. Injury or dysfunction…

“Should I Push Through Pain?”

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Post published:October 30, 2020
Post category:Exercises

“No Pain, No Gain.” We’ve all heard it from old coaches or trainers, for better or for worse. While the quote does have some merit...maybe…it often makes me, as a physical therapist, cringe to hear it when people describe their exercise habits. There is truth in the phrase. To make changes, i.e. gain strength, your body needs to be pushed to its limit in order to come out stronger. This is where soreness comes into play. Many of us have felt that good soreness after a workout. That’s science coming…

Recovery. How Much Is Enough?

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Post published:October 23, 2020
Post category:Exercises

Foam Rollers. Lacrosse balls. Massage guns. Heat. Ice. Stretch. Don’t stretch. Rest, but not too much rest. Got that? The world of ‘recovery’ is a confusing and at times overwhelming area of health and wellness that can make it difficult to actually understand what you should be doing to ensure you’re balancing the natural push/pull of breaking your body down through working out and building it back up through your recovery regimen. So let’s take a step back and understand what recovery actually means. When you workout you (ideally) challenge…

Conditioning for Mountain Bikers

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Post published:October 16, 2020
Post category:Exercises

Mountain biking is a rare sport in that it has a long aerobic endurance requirement with multiple intense bouts of anaerobic work. What this means is that the rides you perform are overall working your cardiovascular system at a consistent rate - then at times you come to a tough section of trail which requires a sprint, jump, or other technical move that breaks this consistent effort. This requires your cardiovascular system to work at a consistent pace, have a rapid spike in work-load, and the need to be able…

Why Wait For Rehab If You Can Prehab?

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Post published:October 9, 2020
Post category:Physical Therapy

When people hear “physical therapy” their minds generally go right to treatment after an injury or pain. And that is the majority of what currently fills our schedule. But it’s not all we can do. Physical therapy can also include prehabilitation. No, we promise we didn’t just make that up. Prehabilitation, or “prehab,” may be therapy to avoid injury or pain or therapy to prepare for a surgery. It can address limitations in strength, stability, range of motion, balance, and overall function—all of the same things we may address after…

Physical Therapy for Temporomandibular Dysfunction

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Post published:October 2, 2020
Post category:Physical Therapy

What Is TMD?: Temporomandibular Dysfunction is a collection of symptoms that involve the mouth, jaw and supporting structures. While not typically associated with physical therapy, these symptoms can affect eating, talking, yawning and singing which can make a large impact in daily life! TMD can often send referral patterns, or different areas of pain, all throughout the head, neck and face and sometimes cause headaches. Below are some important things to consider when faced with symptoms surrounding jaw dysfunction. Team Approach: It is incredibly important to have a team approach…

How Much Exercise Should We Really Be Doing?

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Post published:September 25, 2020
Post category:Exercises

There will always be new apps, new fitness trends and new fitness influencers reinventing the wheel and creating content to promote healthy living. Many of us have busy lifestyles and find it difficult to integrate physical activity into those schedules, so we look for the short duration, high intensity style activities that will give us the most bang for our buck. While that can be great, it is also important to keep in mind that our exercise is meant to be diverse, all-encompassing and purposeful in order to decrease our…

What is Dry Needling?

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Post published:September 4, 2020
Post category:Physical Therapy

More and more often we are getting patients who walk in our doors with a referral that mentions dry needling, or people coming in off the recommendation of a friend who may have received dry needling during their course of treatment. A pretty common thread we see is that these patients have no clue what dry needling is or how it is used in a PT plan of care. So follow along for a look into this tool! It’s the same as acupuncture, right? Wrong! While dry needling uses the…