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Welcome to the Health Plus Minute. Play like a girl. When you hear this phrase, it’s most often perceived as negative. You throw like a girl. Well, yeah, you run like my sister. These comments are usually meant to insult the male by comparing his skills or performance to that of a female. Our history of putting greater emphasis on athletic participation for males at a young age has resulted in a cultural perception that males are more adept than females in sports skills. However, successful skill execution, simply put, is biomechanical proficiency, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with gender. The development of a specific athletic skill in either sex is linked closely to three things. The number of hours of repetition of that skill, the athlete’s ability to model the correct technique, and the quality of feedback and reinforcement the athlete receives. So play like a girl and be proud of it. Call 573-4816 for more information. ProMotion, physical therapy and functional fitness. Be strong.

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Welcome to the Health + Minute. I’m Michael Kane.

Neuro scientist Daniel Wolpert said, “We have a brain for one purpose…to create complex and adaptable movement.” It is through movement that we accomplish goal directed behavior. Movement connects us to our desires. Aging, disease, injury and disuse can rob us of this precious ability. With loss of movement comes further decline in sensations, perceptions and
function. If your abilities have been reduced then get ready to reconnect to your desires with the Alter G Treadmill. This unique un-weighting TM provides variable loading through its
unique air pressure technology. Weight adjustments can be made in 1% increments that will allow you to train or rehabilitate in a gravity-controlled environment. The research is clear.
This unique un-weighting treadmill allows pre- and post-injury patients, overweight individuals, the neurologically involved, as well as healthy athletes to get to their goals faster.

Make the Big Time where you are with Alter G.

…Pro-Motion Physical Therapy and Functional Fitness
Be Moved

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Welcome to the Health Plus Minute.  I’m Laurie Kruez.

I am going to talk about something that is often overlooked and under discussed in the female population.  I am referring to the pelvic floor musculature… The floor of the core musculature.  The female population experiences changes in their bodies that can create unique challenges.  These can include urinary incontinence, low back pain and sciatica, pelvic pain and sacroiliac joint dysfunction, and more.  There are many physical changes that occur with pregnancy, childbirth, and after pelvic surgeries.  We ProMotion Physical Therapy are excited to bring our knowledge and skill sets to help the girls and women of this community.  Our evaluation process is a head to toe approach designed to investigate the complexities of the female human body.  This evaluation will lead to a customized exercise program for you.  Our external approach uses a combination of functional exercises, to retrain your complete core muscular system, and manual therapy combined with education.  If you have any questions please call us at 509-573-4816.  ProMotion Physical Therapy and Functional Fitness.  Be strong.

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Welcome to the Health Plus Minute, I’ve been faithfully committed to working out my whole life. We recently bought a house that has a swimming pool and I decided to add swimming laps to my program. The first time I made it just two laps before I had to stop in exhaustion. I thought I was in good shape. It was a shock and a reminder about the importance of cross-training. This is what happens when we mix up the concept of fitness with a single exercise activity or you train for one sport. If your exercise is always the same, you run the risk of boredom, overuse injuries, and stale performance. Cross-training means altering your workout routine. For great functional fitness, it means changing the modality of exercise, a machine versus pulleys, versus free weights, the type of exercise or the frequency, duration, intensity of your program. Altering how you exercise can help your muscles recover faster, add spice to your routine, and train your nervous system to wire together more efficiently. Posture, balance, core control, strength, flexibility, cardio fitness, and power are all qualities that need to be tuned. ProMotion Physical Therapy and Functional Fitness. Be connected. Be moved.