Video Blog
Watch videos on exercise, stretches, balance and more to help you Feel Better!
How To Shovel Snow The Right Way!
We all know what it feels like. You start shoveling your snow, then in about a few hours (or in a couple minutes) you can’t leave the coach your back is hurting so bad. There are several reasons why this happens, but here are some … Continue Reading…
Fabulous Four Work Out from PPT and Fitness
As the holidays are fast approaching, the thought of trying to squeeze out time to get your exercise in seems daunting. If you are like me, I start thinking “in the ninety minutes that I would be at the gym, … Continue Reading…
Top 3 Side Effects of Breast Cancer and How Exercise Can Help!
As you probably already know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer that affects women. In this area, it seems as if everyone knows someone who has had this type of cancer. … Continue Reading…
How Exercise Can Help You Recover from the Effects of Cancer
My 80 year old mother hates medical tests. ALL medical tests. Always has. The only time she was in a hospital was to give birth to her 3 crazy boys. In fact, after her last primary care physician retired, she … Continue Reading…
Readers’ Choice Awards 2018 Thank You Party
Thank you to everyone who voted for Performance Physical Therapy in the Readers’ Choice Awards 2018 and Happy Physical Therapy Month! We were named the Best Physical Therapist in Delaware and we want to thank you all with a Thank … Continue Reading…
How to Test Your Own Balance
How to Test Your Own Balance with this Simple 4 Point Balance Test Balance can mean different things to different people. To a 5-year-old, balance is learning to ride a bike without training wheels. To an adult, balance can mean … Continue Reading…
Halloween Safety Tips
With Halloween coming up, it is easy to read about the same old safety tips like checking for razor blades and stay on sidewalks, but we here at Performance PT think differently! Our tips are all about avoiding injury! Yes, … Continue Reading…
What I See When I Go to the Gym
A lot of my patients have said to me in the past, “I bet you see some crazy things people are doing when you go to the gym”. I have to politely smile and calmly say that, indeed, I do … Continue Reading…
Coping with Stress
It seems that stress is becoming a bigger part of everyone’s lives lately. Whether it be driving the kids, cleaning the house, working harder, or sleeping less, is it any wonder that we all feel as if we are aging … Continue Reading…
Rest Stops & Travel: Why It’s Important to Do Rest Stop Stretches While Traveling
The summer travel season is here and many of us are planning on taking family vacations via cars. This may just be to the beach, or perhaps a longer trek to visit family many states away. I have written in … Continue Reading…
How to Strengthen Your Ankle After a Sprain
“Aaagh!” That’s the usual exclamation when you have that painful and often sickening feeling when you sprain your ankle (among other unrepeatable expressions). Most folks by the time they reach adulthood have had what is technically called an “inversion” sprain … Continue Reading…
Don’t Crane Your Neck!
Readers of my column know how I enjoy relating my own experiences with patients and their various problems (as well as my own injuries and strains/sprains) and transforming that into a healthy “lesson” for everyone. As much as I love … Continue Reading…
John Bradley Demonstrates His Go-To Stretch for Back Pain
Written For the News Journal Have you ever noticed that for every malady that plagues our bodies, there seems to be a “flavor of the day” approach to treating it? For a while, it was thought that using zinc lozenges … Continue Reading…
3 Tests to Check Your Readiness to Exercise
*Written for The News Journal CrossFit? P90x? Body Combat? Zumba? Yoga? How do you know what exercise program is right for you? I get that question several times per week in my practice. Of course, a lot of people asking … Continue Reading…
Breaks, stretches can help avoid strains during long car trips
Written for The News Journal I just returned from a trip to Maine which has become an annual event during which I get to do some great kayaking, hiking and relaxing. My wife and I truly love Maine, and we … Continue Reading…
Staying Level at the Beach
By now, many of you have probably been visiting the local beaches for your summertime activities and vacations with family and friends. We are fortunate to live so close to the coast that a trip to the beach is at … Continue Reading…
Sneaky Fitness Tips & Tricks
Everyone is busy. We are. Our patients are. You are. In this society, and in this economy, everyone is trying to do more with less (including time used to do all the things that we need to do). In our … Continue Reading…
Posture is an Attitude—Get a Good One!
Your mother was right! Good posture is an attitude about life and essential for overall health and well being. Almost all of our patients, regardless of their problem, get some sort of postural training. Do you think I am exaggerating? … Continue Reading…
The Do’s And Don’ts To Exercise
Does this sound like you? “I totally stopped exercising since it was crazy busy.” “I swore I was gonna start back in the gym after the New Year.” “I’ll start exercising in the spring!” Sound familiar? At different times of … Continue Reading…
How to Be Younger By Next Year!
This month makes our 26th year in business treating Delawareans, and 18 years of running a fitness center. I was talking to some of our fitness members about this milestone, and they posed a very interesting question. ‘What secrets have … Continue Reading…
Slip-Sliding Away…
I live on a hill. Well, to be more accurate, I live on the side of a hill. It was a dream my wife and I had for many years to have a home on a hill. We wanted to … Continue Reading…
Knee Replacement Secrets
I was talking to 3 members of our fitness center the other day, and it dawned on me that between them, there were 5 artificial knees! I do not think a day goes by in my professional life where I … Continue Reading…
Is There a Magic Pill For Cancer
No one likes to hear the phrase, ‘you’ve got cancer’. True, recent advances in treatment of cancer is absolutely astounding. However, wouldn’t it be great if there was a pill you could take that would help prevent cancer, or keep … Continue Reading…
How Do I Work Out?
Many people would assume that a lot of the questions I get as an orthopedic physical therapist have to do with injuries, degenerative diseases, and physical rehabilitation. Indeed, those topics make up much of my daily conversation with patients. Also, … Continue Reading…
Exercising While on Vacation….NO Excuses!
By this time of the year, many of you have already travelled for vacation or at least are planning to do so in the remaining weeks of summer before the kids return to school. Or, you may just be leaving … Continue Reading…
The Other Core
The word “core” has now become part of our modern language. It is used in conversations heard just about everywhere. Most of us know that the core refers to certain muscles in the abdominal, hip and lower back area. Much … Continue Reading…
Be the Best Coach Your Kid Will Ever Have
I don’t mean to wax melodramatic, but life is certainly a series of ebbs and flows, sunrises and sunsets, beginnings and endings….okay, I’ll stop there before anyone gets all teary eyed. Just consider this time of the year. We are … Continue Reading…
Are You Too Old to Exercise?
I get literally hundreds of questions each week from patients, gym members and even folks accessing me through our website about exercise. One of the questions that I am getting more frequently concerns exercise and aging. “Am I too old … Continue Reading…
The Holidays & Low Back Pain
By: Diptee Pathak PTA, CPT Why are PT clinics flooded with patients after the holidays? A majority of these patients seem to all come in for a similar diagnosis each time. Lower back pain. This pattern has been going on … Continue Reading…
A Gardener’s Workout
I have written several times in the past about the physical challenges of gardening and performing yard work. There is no doubt that gardening regularly is an excellent form of exercise, and if some in a sustained manner, meets the … Continue Reading…
Pillows and Proper Sleeping Positions
By Heena Patel, PTA We’ve all been told getting a good night’s sleep is the key to good health. Are you waking up not feeling your best? Maybe it’s because of your sleeping position. Here are some tips to help! … Continue Reading…
How to Avoid a Rotator Cuff Injury
By Amanda Vito, PT, DPT Whether you are taking down holiday decorations or you are shoveling your driveway to get rid of the most recent snowfall, you are putting yourself at risk for developing an overuse injury in your shoulders. … Continue Reading…
What is Your IT Band?
by Sean Ruane, PT You might have heard of the IT band, or you may be wondering if it’s a body part or a new musical group on the radio- you’re not sure which! However, if you develop problems with … Continue Reading…