February – Heart month

February – Heart month

February is American Heart Awareness month. Nearly half of adults in the United States (47%, or 116 million) have hypertension, defined as a systolic blood pressure greater than 130 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure greater than 80 mmHg or are taking medication for...
What Is Balance?

What Is Balance?

We talk about how important it is to have “good balance”, but what does that even mean? Balance is defined as the ability to control the center of gravity over the base of support in a given sensory environment. As humans this means, controlling the center of our...
Jumper’s Knee

Jumper’s Knee

Jumper’s Knee is a common diagnosis that is also known as patellar tendinopathy in adults or Osgood-Schlatters Disease or Sinding-Larsen-Johansson Syndrome in adolescents. In simple terms, these diagnoses mean that there has been too much stress placed on the patellar...
Biohacking : How old do you want to live to be?

Biohacking : How old do you want to live to be?

A hot term around the community is this term “biohacking”. Recently patients and clients are seeing this term around the internet and the burning desire to know what it really is. A man named Sergey Young did a Ted Talk and reported that when asked if you would want...