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Fun & Effective Online Physical Therapy with motivPT – Our engaging, expert-designed movement training makes it easy to stay active, recover faster, and live pain-free.

08/12/2026

5 Things to Prepare for Menopause: Lifestyle Changes to Help Menopause and Perimenopause

Menopause is a natural phase of life that every woman goes through, usually between the ages of 45 and 55. As you approach this transition, it’s essential to understand the physical and emotional changes that can occur. Proper preparation can help you navigate the menopausal years with confidence and maintain your quality of life.

Here are five things you can start doing now to prepare for menopause: https://motivpt.com/5-things-to-prepare-for-menopause/

08/07/2026

Wrist or Elbow Pain At Work? Try This!

When we type on a keyboard or use a mouse, our wrists are placed in an extended position. And because work or school demands long chunks of time on the computer, our wrists spend a lot of time in active extension.

The wrist extensors (many of which attach to the outside part of the elbow) help lift your knuckles toward the ceiling, and you can feel and see them contract by doing this motion. But muscles that spend a lot of time contracted can get shortened and repetitively stressed, so developing lateral elbow or forearm pain isn’t uncommon.

Today, we have two strategies to combat this wrist tightness and fatigue. Learn all about them at https://motivpt.com/wrist-or-elbow-pain-at-work-try-this/

08/01/2026

I Never Stand on One Leg… So Why Are You Making Me???!

When it comes to assigning patients exercise, the Single Leg Stand is one I go to time and time again–I love making people balance on one leg. I have easy versions, hard versions, versions with eyes closed, versions with movement, etc. During our balance testing, if someone struggles with standing on one leg, they earn themselves this type of homework. Most of the time, it’s one leg that performs much worse than the other–this is especially true when people come to me with injury, pain, or weakness.

“But during my normal day, I’m never on one leg” people complain at my video check-ins. Actually, these people are standing on one leg all the time, they just don’t realize it.

Read more at https://motivpt.com/i-never-stand-on-one-leg-so-why-are-you-making-me/

07/29/2026

Virtual Physical Therapy: Why I Believe It’s the Future

I founded motivPT because I kept seeing barriers in the traditional PT model: inconvenience, surprise costs, and therapy that too often felt boring and didn’t inspire doing home exercise. Recently, I had the chance to catch up with Erin Kline from The American Dream TV to share my story and talk about how virtual physical therapy is transforming how people access care. You can watch the full interview here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qDMOhMtGVAM&ra=m

Read more at https://motivpt.com/virtual-physical-therapy-why-i-believe-its-the-future/

07/27/2026

In late 2023, running from my house to the garage, I caught the very front edge of a stair. As my heel sank down, my body kept moving forward, and I felt a tremendous buildup of pressure in my calf, then a firm “pop.” No more pressure. I knew what happened immediately. I hopped to the house on one leg, pulled my boot off and could see my heel and calf weren’t connected by my achilles tendon anymore. As a physical therapist, I knew this was bad–I’d helped lots of patients after tearing their own achilles. I was freaked out about what this would mean for me, because I walked every day, ran most, went to the gym regularly, and I had a professional dance show coming up in 4 months.

I’ll tell you what I learned from my experience as a physical therapist turned patient–my timeline, my mistakes, and my approach to recovering from an achilles surgery; a surgery with a notoriously long rehab timeline. And if you’re concerned you are not on track, I work with people one-on-one in my virtual PT clinic to make sure their recovery is going how it’s supposed to.

https://motivpt.com/achilles-surgery-recovery-timeline-what-to-expect-the-first-4-months/

07/26/2026

Time with family matters, and it sure did for our client, Jolene, who just took her son on an epic trip to Iceland to celebrate his college graduation. The balance and leg strength we worked on carried her through hikes, climbing over slippery rocks, and keeping up with her 22-year-old son.

Sometimes we let our body limit us from doing the things we want to do, but it doesn’t need to be that way. We are so happy we could help Jolene have this adventure with her son, and we can’t wait to support her through the next one.

07/09/2026

It’s the craze that’s sweeping the nation and injuring Americans in its wake–it’s Pickleball, and it’s everywhere. Over 24 million Americans played in 2025, and nearly 80,000 of those people ended up in the emergency department for injuries like fractures, strains, and sprains. As your physical therapist, I’m the one who sees you after your injury, and, these days, I’m seeing a lot of Pickleball injuries. Am I here to warn you away from Pickleball? No, actually. The reasons people play are pretty great; it’s fun, it’s social, it’s inexpensive to do, and, the number one reason people play, it’s exercise.

Learn more at https://motivpt.com/the-7-most-common-pickleball-injuries-and-how-to-prevent-them/

06/15/2026

Falling; An Epidemic Plaguing Our Seniors

“A fall would turn my world upside down,” JoJo said while sitting in the living room of her home for the past 22 years. JoJo lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, across the street from the house she grew up in; her brother, a few years older, rents the upstairs. Both now over the age of 65, JoJo was asked if you were injured in a fall, could your brother help support you?

“He couldn’t take care of me,” JoJo reflected when thinking about her brother. JoJo talked about her brother’s mobility issues, his body weakness, his attitude toward health, and his poor eyesight. JoJo worried about him because, if he fell, she doubted her own ability to take care of him.

“I think he would end up in a rehabilitation home; in a nursing home. There’s no question,” JoJo concluded.

At 70-years-old, JoJo still works and, living independently, she is responsible for maintaining her home. She does not have the capacity to become someone’s fulltime caregiver right now. JoJo is living her life the way she wants, and she knows that continuing her life this way means staying strong enough to support it. She knows how detrimental a fall could be and how it could compromise the life she has built.

https://motivpt.com/falling-an-epidemic-plaguing-our-seniors/

06/08/2026

Do Home Exercises Really Matter? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Have you ever received a Home Exercise Program (HEP)? They’re usually about 4-6 exercises on a sheet of paper your physical therapist whips through at the end of your first visit. Maybe yours got lost in the back of your car, or folded up in your pocket and ran through the wash, or maybe you kept it out, tried doing the exercises but, boy, were they boring!

The fact is, more patients aren’t doing their exercises than are–lots of studies show 50-75% of people don’t do them. It could be that there’s no time, or you didn’t know if you were doing them right, or you weren’t sure they’d work. Anyway, a sheet of paper that your PT rushed through hardly seems important. But that home exercise program, the one you ignored, plays maybe the most important role in getting you better and keeping you better. I’ll share why.

Read more at https://motivpt.com/do-home-exercises-really-matter/

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