Spread Those Toes – Reduce Foot Pain and Improve Alignment During Activity with Correct Toes® 
When your joints are properly aligned, the muscles surrounding those joints work efficiently to keep you moving well. While alignment tends to be a hot topic around the spine, we LOVE to talk about it in your feet! We’ve decided to spotlight one of our favorite...
Shoulder Strengthening Exercises for Summer Recreation
As the seasons change in Central Oregon, we often move seamlessly from one recreational activity to the next. Whether you participate in pickleball, tennis, golf, paddle sports, or fly fishing, increasing your shoulder strength can lead to improved performance,...
Understanding Acute Pain and How to Safely Recover From It
Acute pain is defined as pain that comes on rather suddenly and lasts less than three months. The cause may be known, such as having surgery, a ski accident, twisting a knee, or a lifting injury. The reason may also be unknown, like waking up with shoulder...
Diastasis Recti – Understanding and Managing with Exercise
Mommy tummy. Abdominal pooch. Jelly belly. Gapping between the abdominal muscles. All of these and many other (not great) terms have been used to describe diastasis rectus abdominis (DRA). Who can get it? Anyone. Pregnancy, multiple pregnancies,...
A New Approach to Understanding Chronic or Persistent Pain
On the surface, pain seems like a pretty simple concept to understand. We’ve all experienced some level of discomfort related to an injury or activity over time. However, there are vast differences between individuals on how we perceive pain and how our bodies respond...
Don’t Trade Your Life for Knee Pain, Get Physical Therapy
It starts as a dull, aching pain in the front of the knee. Perhaps you notice it when you walk down the stairs or squat or when you struggle to get up after prolonged sitting. Eventually, it begins to hurt when walking, running, and skiing, which impacts how you...
Sciatica is a Pain but Not Where You May Think
John arrived at his physical therapy evaluation and shared that he had sciatica with his physical therapist, Rob Hollander. However, as Rob began to unravel the mystery behind John’s pain, he quickly discovered that John’s pain wasn’t sciatica; it was back pain. ...
Pregnancy, Bladders, and Babies
One Physical Therapist’s Journey Through Her Own Pelvic Health
Pregnancy and postpartum recovery can be a mystery to every woman until they go through them. Even still, the first pregnancy, delivery, and recovery can be significantly different than the last. However, when you’re not only a physical therapist but also an expert in...
Lymphedema: The Silent Byproduct of Cancer Therapies
For the better part of a year, Haley underwent breast cancer surgery and chemotherapy before she received the all-clear. The sense of relief and feeling of strength was truly inspirational yet surreal. To celebrate her victory, Haley and her family traveled to Hawaii....