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Paradigm shifts is about changing old thinking in health & wellness with new emerging ideas. I recommend non-pharmaceutical interventions, minimizing surgery, and creating preventative solutions first. You will always have the option to consider drugs, surgery, or injections but there is almost always multiple other options before those three. Take your health into your own hands. There are New ways to utilize physical therapy for your health. You have the consumer power to choose your physical therapist. We look back at the best of Paradigm shifts in Wellness and sport in 2013.

Despite its inclusion in most definitions of the core, few rehabilitation or fitness programs integrate the pelvic floor into strength training. When linked to the diaphragm, the pelvic floor acts as a powerful stabilizer of your low back, hips & pelvis ensuring efficient lower extremity & upper extremity mechanics. Evidence of dysfunction in this system can manifest across a woman’s lifespan: at puberty possibly contributing to non-contact ACL injuries in adolescent girls, during pregnancy and beyond as a myriad of musculoskeletal complaints and finally as balance and incontinence dysfunction in older women. What are the true core muscles? How can I engage them? What can physical therapy do to help me? What can I do to help myself? Join Dr. Ivan Huergo and Julie Wiebe as they answer these questions and discuss strategies for you to increase stability, decrease low back pain, improve breathing efficiency and help you move through life with strength and confidence.

As we age, due to various forms of stresses being placed on the body, the muscular system may become less efficient in its contractile abilities. The result of this diminished muscular activity may correlate with many of the physical complaints that we relate to aging. MAT recognizes that every injury may have a negative impact on our neuromuscular function and that over time, the communication between the nervous system and the muscular system becomes altered negatively. MAT is a specific program designed to identify and address these altered communication pathways with the primary goal being to restore muscle contractile capabilities. Join Dr. Ivan Huergo and Kevin Dunn as they discuss how this newer modality (MAT) ™ Muscle Activation Techniques can help you increase stability, improve sport performance, and help you move through life with strength and confidence.

What is the secret to training to avoid injury and peak when it counts? The answer is periodization. To train and compete at the best of your ability, and to do it with the least amount of injury, fatigue and worry, nothing compares to Periodization. Training for a race or simply to lose 20 pounds, whatever the reason, the principles of periodization will be the same, the intensity and frequency of training will differ. Injury, fear of injury, fatigue, and the lack of a real plan commonly prevent many from reaching their athletic potential. Give yourself the best opportunity to diminish the risk of overuse injuries or repetitive strains so you can continue to train and compete at your full athletic potential, listen to Be at your Peak when it Counts 2. Join Dr. Ivan Huergo and Robert Forster as they discuss strategies for you to resolve pain, improve sport performance, and help you move through life with strength and confidence.

Pain is normal—it is sensible to have a system which protects and preserves of course something can hurt; life can hurt. There are many different kinds of pain. Pain can be traumatic or pain may develop with much less obvious damage. Pain may emerge over time--- like the pain you feel after sitting in front of a computer all day. It could be in your neck or in your back. Pain is useful here, and hopefully will encourage you to get up and move about more often. But pain if often unpredictable, which can make you frightened of it. Sometimes you can lift the same object 1000 times without a problem. Then,--all of the sudden, one lift causes extreme pain. How can this be? Why do I hurt? What can I do for my pain? Join Dr. Ivan Huergo and Dr. David Butler as they discuss strategies for you to resolve pain, improve sport performance, and help you move through life with strength and confidence.

About 80 percent of Americans experience low back pain (LBP) in their lifetime. It is estimated that each year 15-20 percent of the population develop chronic low back pain. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on LBP. LBP is the Third most common reason to undergo a surgical procedure. Why is your low back pain getting worse every year? What can physical therapy do to help me? What can I do to help myself? Join Dr. Ivan Huergo and Dr. Chad Garvey as they continue to discuss strategies for you to learn about the most current and innovative ways to treat low back pain and help you move through life with strength and confidence.