Your grip strength is telling you something! If you’ve spent any time on health fitness content lately, you have probably seen the headlines about how grip strength predicts how long you will live. You can test this by squeezing a thing called a dynamometer and you’ll know all you need to know about your future! […]

I’ve had three very different postpartum experiences. One vaginal birth. One miscarriage. One triplet C-section. And I’ve returned to running and lifting, real running and lifting, after every single one of them. I say that not to impress anyone, but because it changed how I practice. Before I had kids, I could recite the research

If you’re active,  running, lifting, CrossFit, whatever your thing is,  there’s a chance plantar fasciitis has interrupted your training at some point. And if you’re like a lot of the patients I see, there’s a good chance it’s come back more than once. That pattern isn’t bad luck. It’s usually a sign that the first

If you’ve spent any time searching for how to improve your balance, you’ve probably found a lot of lists: “5 exercises to prevent falls,” “10 balance moves for seniors,” things like that. As a physical therapist who has a love of working with older adults, I want to let you in on something: those lists

You laced up your shoes and head out to run. But somewhere a few miles in your knee starts hurting. Maybe it’s a dull ache. Maybe it’s a sharp pain. Maybe it’s been nagging for weeks and you’ve been hoping it would just go away. It probably won’t. But it’s almost certainly fixable. First, we

Leaking with exercise is common, but not normal! If you leak with running, jumping, or lifting weights this can be fixed! Some people assume this means their pelvic floor is weak or that it is just a normal part of aging or having children. Leaking during exercise is often more complex than simply being weak,

If you’ve been to a traditional PT clinic before, what we do here might feel a little different. That’s completely intentional. I started IdealFit because I believed there was a better way to deliver physical therapy, one that actually puts the patient first instead of the insurance schedule, the productivity quota, or the number of

I want to tell you about a situation I encounter a lot. Someone comes in usually in their 60s or 70s, sometimes older and somewhere in the middle of taking their history they say some version of the same thing. “I just want to stay active. I’m not trying to run a marathon. I just

I have a patient in my head as I write this. She’d been doing core work for years. Planks, Pilates, all of it. Came in with back pain that just wouldn’t quit despite doing everything “right” or so she thought. Within the first ten minutes of her assessment it was clear that her outer abs

I want to tell you about a pattern I see regularly in my practice. Someone comes in with hip pain. They’ve usually had it for a while-  months, sometimes years. They’ve tried stretching it, strengthening it, maybe had an injection or two. Things improve for a bit and then drift right back to where they