It’s Your Time to Bloom by Abby Thrasher, MS, OTR, A-CFHC
Your time to bloom... As we move into the season of Spring, we welcome the sun, warm weather activities, and the beautiful colors of nature re-emerging and blooming. This is a time that invites us to reflect on where we’ve been, how we’ve grown and in what ways we...
Ankle Sprain Rehab: More than just 4-way Ankle Theraband exercises? by Jacqueline Sanders, PT, DP
Ankle Sprain Rehab: More than TheraBand exercises? Ankle sprains are very common in athletics across a multitude of sports at a variety of performance levels: it seems most athletes from young to more mature, recreational to professional have experienced an ankle...
Sober Curiosity & How Finding Life Without Alcohol Can Lay New Roots by Abby Thrasher, MS, OTR, A-CFHC
Curious about the "Sober Curious" lifestyle? National Alcohol Screening Day is observed on April 6, 2023, this year and aims to raise awareness about the harmful effects of alcohol abuse and dependency and its partially genetic component. This day also emphasizes the...
5 Tips to Avoid When Scaling a Small Health and Wellness Business by Dr. Sarah Crawford, PT, DPT, COMT, CMTPT
Scaling a Small Health and Wellness Business? When it comes to scaling a small health and wellness business, it's important to spend time on the front end that will set your business up for success as your grow. Failing to do so is not guaranteed to be costly and...
Why Paying for Speed and Agility is a Waste of Money by Jason Adams
Paying for speed and agility? The first thing that I would like to say is that I am not in total in agreement with the title of this blog. Speed and agility are necessary components of fitness in sports that requires power and explosion. What I am also saying is that...
Red Flags to Pay Attention to if Concerned About an Eating Disorder by Laurie Dunham MS, RD, LD, CEDS-S
Every 52 minutes, a person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder in the United States (1). Think about that. Eating disorders account for over 10,000 deaths per year and yet still remain largely in the shadows of public health discourse and are often...
Myth’s Debunked: Eating Disorders by Dr. Tiffany Graves, PsyD
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is an annual campaign to increase public awareness around the deadly realities of eating disorders. Recent years have brought about hopeful changes in terms of the body liberation and...
How Does Personalized Nutrition Help? by Dr. Cindy Cassell, PhD, RD, LD
What is Personalized Nutrition? The first time I heard the term "personalized nutrition" I thought, “that’s what registered dietitian/nutritionists are trained to do: develop the most appropriate eating plan for each individual person.” Sequencing the human genome has...
Work-Life Balance, Does it Exist? by Abby Thrasher
Where did the idea of “work-life balance” come from exactly? It's crazy to think that during the Industrial Revolution, prior to the 1920’s, the average work week was between 70-100 hours!! Can you imagine?! It was Henry Ford who established the “nine to five” workday...
World Peace Meditation Day by Nationally Certified Health and Wellness Coach Abby Thrasher
Every year, World Peace Meditation Day is held on December 31 as we all contemplate the start of a new year. It is commonly known that when people are at peace with themselves, they are more likely to seek out and build peaceful relationships in their community and...