By Nathan Stiffler, PT, DPT You don’t have to be the fastest. You just have to keep moving forward. A few months ago, we had an idea. What if we created a fitness competition where a 25-year-old and a 70-year-old could show up on the same morning, compete, challenge themselves, and both walk away feeling …
By Brian Kaufmann, PT, DPT | Founder of Elevate615 Physical Therapy & Performance Performance Therapy is our novel blend of pain control, anatomy and biomechanics education, corrective exercises, capacity building, relationship with discomfort development, conditioning, mobility, and hands on work. We would love to assume progress is linear but the human body is so dynamic …
A Physical Challenge Designed for a Lifetime of Participation. Designed by Doctors of Physical Therapy. Challenging by design. Modifiable for every athlete. The core idea this event is built around is this: Fitness isn’t about being the best athlete in the room. It’s about being capable of saying YES and participating in your life. The …
By Elaine Weisberger, PT Why Strength Training Becomes More Important During Menopause One of the biggest misconceptions I hear from women approaching menopause is: “I’m exercising the same way I always have. Why isn’t it working anymore?” The answer is simple: your body has changed, so your training needs to change too. As women enter …
By Ortho-Pelvic Physical Therapist Hannah Jones, PT, DPT, OCS When most athletes think about generating more power, they focus on the obvious things: Very few think about their pelvic floor. In fact, many people still assume the pelvic floor is only something women need to worry about during pregnancy or postpartum recovery. The truth? Every …
By Ortho-Pelvic Specialist Physical Therapist Hannah Jones, PT, DPT, OCS If I could eliminate one piece of outdated pregnancy and postpartum exercise advice, it would be this: “Never do crunches if you have a diastasis recti.” Pregnant and postpartum women hear this all the time. In fact, many women are told to avoid crunches entirely …
By Ortho-Pelvic Physical Therapist Hannah Jones, PT, DPT, OCS One of the most rewarding parts of being a pelvic floor physical therapist is helping women realize that symptoms they’ve been told to accept as “normal” don’t necessarily have to be. A lot of women have underlying pelvic floor dysfunction that goes unnoticed for years. Pregnancy …
By Running Specialist Physical Therapist Payton Azbell, PT, DPT, ATC Running Physical Therapy in Franklin, TN: How to Stay Healthy, Avoid Injury, and Improve Performance Running is one of the best, most accessible ways for adults to exercise. It takes very little equipment, no specific type of facility, and it can be done year-round (depending …
By Reina Vierra, PT, DPT If you weren’t able to make it out on June 10th, we missed you — but don’t worry, we’ve got all the highlights right here. This was our second Women & Wellness Night at Elevate615, and the energy in the room was exactly what we hoped for: women showing up …
By Reina Vierra, PT, DPT Hi, I’m Reina Vierra, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, and I want to talk about something that doesn’t get nearly enough honest airtime: what pregnancy and the postpartum period actually do to your body — hormonally, physically, and emotionally — and why staying active through all of it matters more …