The Latest From the Healthiness People

Winter is Coming: Tips to Stay Fit (and Fight Off Injury)

There’s no avoiding it: Winter is coming.
November 14, 2017

How Exercise Can Help with Diabetes Management, Prevention

In our continued focus on American Diabetes Month and the “types of physical activity are most important for managing diabetes,” according to the American Diabetes Association.
November 8, 2017

American Diabetes Month: Fitness Plays Key Role in Prevention, Management

November is American Diabetes Month, a time to raise awareness around the prevalence of the disease as well as ways to help with prevention and management.
November 6, 2017

How to Combat the Obesity “Spiral Effect”

The piece was originally published in Hampton Roads Physician Fall 2017  By Michael Satterley PT, DPT, SCS, CIMT, CMTPT, CSCS Everywhere we turn, it seems, we see new revelations about our increasing obesity levels and the serious health challenges they present
November 3, 2017

How Physical Therapy Can Address Lymphedema and Breast Cancer

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month and National Physical Therapy Month come to an end, we wanted to raise awareness about the important connection between the two – and the ways that a well-planned therapy program can help a common complication of breast cancer: Lymphedem
November 1, 2017

Fitness Matters: Nearly 40 Percent of U.S. Adults are Obese (CDC)

An important new report from the U.
October 17, 2017

Study Shows Challenge in Helping Patients Return to Activity Following Joint Surgery

As any physical therapist knows: Movement matters.
October 16, 2017

A New Way to Deal with Back Pain

“If you’re dealing with back pain — whether you spend hours sitting every day or are still nursing that weird high school injury — you know it can be a tricky thing to tr
September 24, 2017

Why You Should See a Physical Therapist Every Year

“Why is it that superbly fit athletes can find themselves in as much back, knee, or neck pain as their flabby fans, who sit at desks all day long then watch sports from overstuffed sofas?,” St.
September 15, 2017