Are you setting resolutions for the new year? Too often, we name aspirational resolutions without having a clear plan to achieve them. This year, try using the SMART goal setting framework to help you create specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timebound fitness goals for 2024. Check out our infographic to learn more!

Winter sports involve dynamic athletic activities engaged in in cold weather and packed snow and ice, heightening the risk of injury significantly. Common winter sports injuries include knee ligament and meniscus tears, wrist fractures and sprains, concussions, and shoulder injuries like dislocations or rotator cuff tears. Physical therapists can help winter sports participants recover effectively from injury and return to winter sports. Check out our 10 tips for winter sports injury prevention!

The holiday season is upon us! Many of us are participating in holiday work events, shopping, traveling, and gatherings with family and friends. The holiday season brings with it an often hectic pace and highly palatable and sugary foods, which can derail your healthy eating plan and regular exercise routine. Check out our infographic highlighting 10 holiday health and fitness tips to help you enjoy the holiday season while maintaining a healthy lifestyle and preventing injury!

During autumn, many of us engage in outdoor tasks to prepare our homes and yards for the winter, including raking copious amounts of leaves. Raking leaves can be quite physically demanding, requiring repetitive movements like pushing, pulling, lifting, twisting, and turning that can place biomechanical stress on the low back, shoulders, and neck. It’s important to take steps to prevent injury while raking leaves and prepare your body for the physical demands of raking. Check out our 6 tips to prevent leaf raking injuries this autumn!

Check out our 7 tips for back-to-school backpack safety! Backpacks, when worn correctly, are designed to distribute the weight of the load evenly across the body’s muscles. However, many children carry backpacks incorrectly or that are too heavy. Carrying a backpack can have significant biomechanical and physiological impacts on the wearer during a critical time in a child’s growth, placing undue stress on the body, changing posture, and contributing to injuries of the back, neck, and shoulders

Swelling is a natural part of the inflammatory process after an injury to help protect the injured area and facilitate healing as the body sends white blood cells and supportive fluids to the injured site to repair and heal. However, prolonged swelling can limit your range of motion and negatively affect your muscular strength. It is important to manage and limit swelling with the help of a physical therapist. Check out our 7 tips to manage swelling after injury!

Check out our 8 tips to manage arthritis this winter. Arthritis is a progressive chronic condition that involves inflammation, swelling, pain, and stiffness in one or more joints and is the leading cause of joint pain in the United States. Winter can exacerbate arthritic pain and stiffness due to the colder temperatures, precipitation, and decreased barometric pressure. Maintaining a regular exercise routine in winter is a key component of managing your arthritis, increasing your mobility, and decreasing your pain and stiffness.

Regular exercise is an essential component of healthy aging, helping seniors maintain independence and improve their physical and mental health. Exercise has numerous benefits for older adults, including improving muscle strength, building bone density, enhancing mobility and balance, and slowing age-related cognitive decline. Experts recommend that older adults engage in moderate-intensity aerobic exercise 150 minutes a week, strength train twice a week, and engage in weekly balance and flexibility training.

Hiking is a fun outdoor activity to engage in with family and friends throughout the summer and has numerous health benefits. However, hiking can be arduous, placing significant physical stress on the body as you navigate varied terrain and high temperatures. Check out our tips for preventing common hiking injuries like knee pain, ankle sprains, and heat exhaustion and what to do to ensure a safe hike this summer!

Check out our infographic on the health benefits of exercise! Exercise is a critical component of a healthy lifestyle. Consistent exercise not only can prevent diseases like diabetes or cardiovascular disease but can also help you manage these chronic conditions and maintain function, endurance, and mobility. It is recommended to engage in at least 150 minutes of aerobic exercise each week, or 30 minutes a day, and strength train at least two times per week.

As we prepare to enter the new year, it’s the perfect time to set realistic goals for a healthier, happier 2022 using the SMART goal-setting framework. Too often, we set undefined and unsustainable resolutions that die out by February. Instead, we propose crafting a plan of smaller steps to achieve goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. Check out our breakdown of how to build a SMART goal and our 8 suggestions for 2022 health resolutions!

The holiday season is in full swing with holiday parties, work events, last-minute shopping, and cross-country traveling. It can be tempting to abandon your healthy habits with the highly palatable comfort foods of the season, the hectic pace, and the cold weather. Check out our 10 tips to stay healthy and fit over the holidays while thoroughly enjoying all the holiday season has to offer!

As we prepare to enter the new year, it’s the perfect time to set achievable goals using the SMART goal-setting strategy. Rather than formulating nebulous resolutions that fade by mid-February, create a consistent system to maximize your ability to achieve those resolutions by setting specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound goals. The SMART framework keeps goals manageable and helps you stay on track to achieve the results you want slowly but surely.  Check out our blog to learn how to set SMART health goals in 2021!

It’s that time of year—the holiday season is in full swing with holiday work events, gatherings with friends and family, shopping, and traveling. Between the highly palatable comfort foods of the season and the oftentimes hectic pace, it’s tempting to abandon healthy eating and regular exercise. Check out our 15 tips to stay healthy and fit over the holidays while thoroughly savoring and enjoying all the holiday season has to offer!