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Finding Your Center: The Importance of Balance in Life and Tips for Achieving It

Falling is the number one catalyst to sharp declines in health in the elderly. Therefore, it is only reasonable that maintaining our balance, and thus preventing the likelihood of falling, is essential to living a long and healthy life. Click here to read our new blog about maintaining and even improving balance as we age.

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Quadratus Lumborum: The Muscle that May be the Source of Your Low Back Pain

I have had many conversations with my patients lately about the quadratus lumborum, commonly known as the QL. In many cases, these patients have suffered from chronic low back pain without a specific injury. This muscle has multiple functions and can be the source of low-level, chronic low back discomfort if overused, tight, and/or weak. Releasing and re-training the QL can be very successful in finally getting rid of low back pain.

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5 Supplements You Should Consider If You Take Your Health and Longevity Seriously 

If you have spent time working out in a gym or have started an exercise routine and plan to improve your health and performance, you have undoubtedly been exposed to the supplement industry. Supplements are a tricky topic in the conversation around health and fitness. Should you take them? What should you take? What supplements are worth it? We answer those questions and provide you with 5 supplements that we believe have sufficient evidence behind them to be worthy of taking if you are serious about optimizing your health and longevity in this month’s blog. Click here to read our blog to learn more.

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3 Ways You Could Benefit From PT

As our society and healthcare system evolve, more and more people have made the mental shift to a proactive, preventative approach to their own health care as opposed to the old model of retro-active, “treat only what is broken” approach. Physical therapists are ideally suited to provide this type of preventative care. Read our blog to uncover 3 specific ways you could benefit from working with a physical therapist even if you do not have an injury or pain.

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Balance: If you don’t use it, you lose it!

Falling is the number one catalyst to sharp declines in health in the elderly. Therefore, it is only reasonable that maintaining our balance, and thus preventing the likelihood of falling, is essential to living a long and healthy life. Click here to read our new blog about maintaining and even improving balance as we age.

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