Oct 5, 2021 | Chronic Pain, Healthy Aging, Movement, Other, Podcast, Vital Signs, Wellness
Your spine is a column of 25 vertebrae all stacked upon one another. They are separated by cartilage cushions and supported by groups of muscles that help to stabilize the spine. When the muscles become weak from lack of exercise or injury, or when the cartilage...
Sep 6, 2021 | Chronic Pain, Healthy Aging, Knee, Low Back/Spine, Movement, Movement Vital Signs, Other, Pt And Surgery, Shoulder, Sports, Vital Signs, Wellness
As the weather cools off, workouts tend to become less frequent because leaving the house doesn’t exactly sound great. Between the chilled winds and unpredictable rainstorms, our summer days doing cannonballs in the pool or going for a run at 8 p.m. seem like a...
Aug 3, 2021 | Chronic Pain, Healthy Aging, Movement, Movement Vital Signs, Other, Pt And Surgery, Sports, Vital Signs, Wellness
How Physical Therapy Improves Mental Health You hear it everywhere: physical activity improves general mental health. But what about physical therapy and mental health? It seems simplistic to generalize and assume that the same positive benefits would and could be...
Apr 19, 2021 | Chronic Pain, Healthy Aging, Movement, Movement Vital Signs, Other, Podcast, Pt And Surgery, Sports, Vital Signs, Wellness
Hello, and welcome to STL Active St Louis’s premier health and wellness podcast.STL Active aims to give listeners in the St. Louis area the information they need to succeed and progress with their health andfitness.This podcast is brought to you by St. Louis...
Apr 13, 2021 | Chronic Pain, Healthy Aging, Movement, Movement Vital Signs, Other, Podcast, Pt And Surgery, Sports, Vital Signs, Wellness
On this episode of the show, I am interviewing Cassy O’Daniel, owner/founder and personal trainer of Find the Core Fitness. Cassy is a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) certified personal trainer with a Behavior Change specialization and an emphasis in...
Dec 1, 2020 | Chronic Pain, Movement, Other, Podcast, Pt And Surgery, Vital Signs, Wellness
On this episode of the show, I’m interviewing Dr. Andrea Otto-who is a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician. Andrea attended the University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine. After practicing medicine in the army, as well as for an outpatient...