Exercises

2023 Gardening Guide: Green Thumb Checklist

Gardening Guide 2023 Set realistic gardening goals now, planning time for recovery-rest and stretching, so you can stay outside and active all summer long!  Clearing, raking, lifting, digging, and pruning can often lead to pain and/or injury, particularly after a long winter of inactivity. Symptoms of cramping, locking, swelling, burning,…

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Tips to Alleviate Low Back Pain From Sitting

Alleviating Low Back Pain From Sitting If you’re sitting all day, it can put your spine in a rounded posture and create strain on the tissues in your back. In this video Marsha Wykes, PT demonstrates a quick exercise  and provides an easy chair adjustment that helps decrease that strain: Are…

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Pre-Season Golf Conditioning With Neil MacKenzie PT

Play your best golf on the first tee-off of the season! Follow along every other week with our expert, Neil Mackenzie PT, as he brings you new exercise progressions that build you up safely and effectively for the spring season. Exercises are to be worked into your daily or semi-daily…

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6+ Ski Exercises For Peak Condition

6+ Ski Exercises For Peak Condition Carve up your favorite trails all day long on day 1 with these curated exercises from Neil Mackenzie, PT, focused on improving the power and control you need to set an edge and ultimately preventing classic ACL skiing injuries. Video and written descriptions below:…

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Keep the Flow: Preventing Workplace Pain

KEEP THE FLOW Prevent workplace aches and pains by relieving muscle tension and fluid congestion Maintaining physical health is fundamentally about maintaining the normal flow of fluid. When flow gets congested, exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste products decline and we begin to get areas of the body and systems…

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The Deconditioned Athlete: Overcoming the Offseason

The sports offseason carries certain injury risks for athletes as their bodies and minds become more deconditioned, particularly as they start their sport back up. What happens when the offseason is extended far longer than just a month or two? In the best of times, we see a number of…

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June 2020 Hip Assessment Lebanon Grantham New Hampshire Physical Therapy

Test Your Hips: Identify & Correct Faulty Movement Patterns

Test Your Hips: Identify & Correct Faulty Movement Patterns Your hips are responsible for driving your body forward but are routinely overlooked when thinking about increasing efficiency of motion, increasing power, and avoiding injury. In Marsha Wykes, PT‘s 25 years of experience, she’s found that the majority of non-acute knee…

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