How Your Mid Back Influences Your Jaw By Dr. Samantha Dove
How Your Mid Back Influences Your Jaw Sounds strange right? You’ve probably heard “it’s all connected” when it comes to your body, but how does the health and mobility of your spine influence what’s happening at your jaw? Read more to find out! And even more, learn...
Play to Your Strengths By Emily Robinson
How Shifting Your Focus Can Be a Game Changer What did you do well this week? What are some areas you feel strong in? Which character traits do you already posses that could help you achieve these goals? *crickets* These are the types of questions that I ask clients...
Simple Ways Addressing TMD with Physical Therapy Improves Your Quality of Life By Dr. Samantha Dove
Simple ways addressing Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMD) with Physical Therapy improves your Quality of Life (QOL). How does TMD affect quality of life? Jaw pain, headaches, pressure in your face, ear pain, muscular tension- no one has time for that!...
The Benefits of Yoga for Runners By Guest Contributor Erin Roddy
When you get into entrepreneurship, you learn a lot about yourself really quickly. Being a sole proprietor is not a easy gig. Many of us make the move because we think we have something special to offer that isn't currently out there. When I heard about MEAS Active, a...
Choosing the Right Physical Therapist for You By Dr. Chelsea Walter
Choosing the Right Physical Therapist for You Have you been to see a physical therapist in the past and thought the whole experience was unsuccessful? Consider this...you may not have seen the right PT for you and for your condition. No two physical therapists are the...
What Your Depression & Anxiety May Be Trying To Tell You By Emily Robinson
Depression & Anxiety The World Health Organization recently released new data showing that depression and anxiety have significantly increased among adults and even children between 2019 and 2020. That doesn’t surprise any of us, right? Given the many challenges...
Chronic Fatigue By Guest Contributor Stephanie Tieman
Chronic Fatigue These two words are getting a lot of buzz after the year (that shall remain nameless) finally came to an end. 2020 was relentless and the effects of the pandemic were felt in one form or another. Is 2021 a Re-brith? Everyone is taking a...
Physical Therapy for the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) By Dr. Samantha Dove
What is TMJ/TMD? Your temporomandibular joint (TMJ) connects your mandible or lower jaw to your temporal bone in your skull. TMJ is the anatomical term for this joint, whereas TMD stands for temporomandibular joint dysfunction. TMD is the term used to describe pain,...
Am I Letting My Body Recover? By Dr. Chelsea Walter
Am I Letting My Body Recover? Recovery is quite the buzz word these days. You can't get on Facebook without being served an ad about the latest and greatest device meant to speed up recovery. Dr. Sarah Crawford explored the mechanisms behind muscle soreness and...
Oh, My Aching Back! By Barb Sferra
Several years ago, while teaching a mat class, one of my newer clients asked, after hearing my unending queues to engage the abdominals: “So, do you walk around all day long sucking your gut in?” My first image was of someone aggressively sucking their gut in to look...