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Hindsight, Insight, Foresight

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1 day ago
3 min

Hindsight, Insight, Foresight

When it comes to being the best version of yourself, hindsight, insight, and foresight can play a crucial role. By using these tools, you can gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your surroundings, which can help you make better decisions and achieve your goals. This can be especially important when it comes to supporting your family and your lifestyle. For example, by looking back at past experiences with your skiing or riding, you can gain insight into what worked we

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3 Common Myths About Concussions

Stephen J Burkert

Jan 9
4 min

3 Common Myths About Concussions

When working with athletes that have an inherent amount of risk in their sport, it's important that we are educated and ready for any injury they may have. Most people know that physical therapy is the best way to recover from an injury to a muscle, bone, tendon, or ligament. Whether that's a recurring irritation or something that required surgery, physical therapy is there to help you recover and bounce back. However, many people don't know that physical therapy is also a

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What does it take to get ready for ski and snowboard season?

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Sep 20, 2022
4 min

What does it take to get ready for ski and snowboard season? 

Now that we have finished summer, and are feeling cooler temps and seeing changing colors, we can’t help to think about what’s coming next. Winter! 😎 It’s not quite Winter's eve yet, but it’s the eve of the eve! We look forward to Winter all year, and as we are seeing it coming, we are excited to be working toward our Winter goals. For some that might be to get more days, land a new trick, or take an amazing trip. For us, we look forward to all those things, but this is als

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Pain is a Lion

Stephen J Burkert

Aug 25, 2022
5 min

Pain is a Lion

Over the past few months we have helped you to understand pain, and by understanding pain, we have better control over it. We know that pain is a problem all around the world, and pain stops people from doing what they love to do. In 2011, the Institute of Medicine reported that chronic pain cost the United States up to $635 billion dollars per year. With 50 million Americans suffering from chronic pain, that comes out to expenses of $644 per month, or $7,726 per year, for

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Pain and the Grandma Map

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Jul 28, 2022
3 min

Pain and the Grandma Map

We've been helping you understand pain better every month. We know that by teaching you what is happening and why, you are empowered to take better care of yourself. By understanding why you feel what you feel, you can properly interpret that information to make the best decision for you. That sounds like an easy thing to do, and it sounds like it's an easy decision to do it. The brain is not that simple though. It's the most intricate, complex, and developed organism in th

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Why Your Brain Tells You About Pain

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Jul 1, 2022
4 min

Why Your Brain Tells You About Pain

When dealing with pain, we need to understand why we experience it, and doing that helps us understand what causes pain so that we may overcome it. Pain is a personal experience, and everyone experiences pain. This is what makes pain such a unique phenomenon, and why different methods work better for different people. By continuing to develop our understanding of pain, we have more options of treatment. This give us more tools to use as we customize each persons approach to

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Calming Overactive Pain Receptors: How to Start Feeling Better Today

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Jun 2, 2022
6 min

Calming Overactive Pain Receptors: How to Start Feeling Better Today

The more we know about pain, the better our ability to react and respond to it. While it's not a pleasant experience, it is necessary. It keeps us safe and warns us about threats to our safety. If you want to learn about how our pain system works, then you can read our prior blog What Is Pain? Understanding what pain is important, but you probably want to know more about how to calm the pain. During this blog, we will talk about calming your nervous system, and how learni

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What is Pain?

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May 9, 2022
4 min

What is Pain?

This is one of those questions that can have a different answer every day. It's not a clear definition that everyone knows, even though everyone experiences pain at some point. Even though we all experience pain, we all experience it differently. We want to discuss the purpose of pain. By understanding that, we can get a better understanding of what pain is. Pain is an experience we have that acts as a warning system for our bodies. It's an interpretation of sensory input t

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Seasons Change, Life Changes

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Apr 8, 2022
5 min

Seasons Change, Life Changes

We've been talking lately about that time of year when the season changes and you start looking toward your next sport, activity, or adventure. As the days and nights change with welcomed sunshine and outdoor playtime, so does everything in our environment. Snow melts and water levels rise. Grasses grow green and birds sing. Animals wake up and bugs bite. The season change encourages us to shift what we do and keep attached to the nature around us. This change has us looki

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Holding Onto A Season

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Mar 9, 2022
4 min

Holding Onto A Season

I knew the day would come that I would have to write this blog. Of course, I never wanted the day to come, but it's inevitable. Sad, but true. Today we went out to enjoy our local mountain, and we knew on the way up that the probability of having comfortable conditions was minimal to begin. We were up for the adventure as we always are, with a backup plan in place, and snacks packed to keep us going. We took that drive looking for a fun family day. Just two days ago we ha

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Cash Based vs Insurance

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Feb 23, 2022
5 min

Cash Based vs Insurance

Do you know what the difference between these two models is? Do you understand the term cash-based? Do you know what your insurance benefits are? This is by far what I get asked about the most when clients first start looking into working with me. Part of the challenge is that the concept is new to many, and the option of not using insurance is like using an oculus near an open stairwell. Let's start with what most people know about insurance. We've always had health insur

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Gloves or Mittens

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Feb 10, 2022
3 min

Gloves or Mittens

Getting the right gear on makes a huge impact on how you feel about your day on the mountain. Doesn't matter what season, doesn't matter what time of day, doesn't matter what terrain, if you don't have the right gear, it can be frustrating, exhausting, and annoying. That's not why you went outside. Let's make sure you've got the right hand protection during your winter sports. We've got two contenders for the best gear. Are you Team Gloves or Team Mittens? They both have th

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Navigating Your Health

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Jan 26, 2022
5 min

Navigating Your Health

The start of a New Year is a great time to re-evaluate how you did last year, and what you want to accomplish this year. Call this a resolution, a game plan, a year in review, whatever you like, but it's common practice for many people to reflect and project for a better self. I'm not a stranger to this idea, as I also make aspirational plans for my next year and beyond. Some resolutions may look similar to ones I've made before. These are usually based on an exercise or fi

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How You Learn Is Your Style

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Jan 12, 2022
3 min

How You Learn Is Your Style

When learning a new skill, topic, or idea, we each have a preferred way to learn, and we each respond differently to preferred ways of teaching. This can make for tricky communication at times, but it also makes for an opportunity to improve how we learn and how we teach so we can further connect with the person or topic. This past week my family went to our local ski hill and took my older daughter snowboarding. It was her fourth birthday, and she wanted to snowboard! This

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Tense Shoulders in Winter Weather

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Dec 21, 2021
3 min

Tense Shoulders in Winter Weather

Everyone that has lived in an area with winter knows that as the temperature drops and the precipitation accumulates, so do the injuries. Winter is a time of the year when the healthcare system sees an increase in falls and fall-related injuries. You can set your calendar to the first frost resulting in broken hips, broken arms, twisted ankles, and bruised bottoms. We know that many more injuries are happening, but aren't significant enough to come in for help. One of thos

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What Your Physician Doesn't Want You to Know About Physical Therapy

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Jul 15, 2021
3 min

What Your Physician Doesn't Want You to Know About Physical Therapy

The secret is out. People know. They whisper it to one another. They pass names and numbers. They don't bring it up to their physician. It's the hidden profession that helps people move and feel better without having to check with the doctor first. IT'S PHYSICAL THERAPY! Maybe the secret isn't out to everyone, but those that know understand the value of a good physical therapist. What's so great about physical therapy? I'm happy to tell you, and I'll acknowledge that I'

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Curing vs. Healing

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Jun 30, 2021
3 min

Curing vs. Healing

When caring for clients, healthcare needs to strive for not only curing the problem, but also healing the person. Too often we work on finding a cure, but that doesn't complete the healing process. So, what's the difference between curing and healing? Curing is how we use scientifically based treatments to address a diagnosis. This is when we do tests, exams, and workups to find out what the problem is, then we use procedures, medications, and supplements to solve those pro

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Treat Yourself Like You Would Treat Others

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Jun 16, 2021
4 min

Treat Yourself Like You Would Treat Others

We all know the saying of treat others like you would want yourself to be treated, but how about treating yourself as well as you treat others? I know that many people are guilty of taking better care of others than they would take of themselves. This may be sacrificing time for their family, skimping on themselves so they could afford things for others, shorting sleep so you can be somewhere for someone else, or being more committed to helping someone else then they would b

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Supported Sleep for Better Rest and Recovery

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Feb 24, 2021
5 min

Supported Sleep for Better Rest and Recovery

When you lay down to sleep, your body and brain have the opportunity to recover from the stresses and challenges of the day. We do this best when we get into deep sleep, but how many people don’t get good deep sleep because they are uncomfortable or in pain? We are going to go over tactics to make you more comfortable so you don’t have pain, you don’t toss and turn, and you can get into that deep sleep that your body and mind need. When we think about our sleep position, we m

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Why We Don't Accept Health Insurance

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Feb 19, 2021
4 min

Why We Don't Accept Health Insurance

One of the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry, as well as in your own personal finance, is navigating health insurance. It’s a headache, and it’s confusing. We understand that. We’ve been on the consumer side ourselves, so we know all the frustration that can come with using health insurance. Let’s talk about some of the bigger issues, and why we choose to be an out of network practice. First, let’s define out of network practice. This means, that we are healthcare

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