Simple Exercise Strategies for Home Office Work
Alpine Physical Therapy has you covered with strategies to manage your transition to working at home. Laptops are great for portability and ease of transport, but they are not designed for comfort with prolonged use. Lets take a look a 5 simple exercises to ease the...
Home Office Work Strategies: Part 2: Proper Posture
How do I find proper posture? Finding the right posture starts with focusing on your kinesthetic sense. What’s that you say? Kinesthetic sense is the sensation of what your body feels like in space. Your body sense. To get the idea, think about what the weight bearing...
Quick Tips for Home Office Ergonomics: Part One: Laptop use.
With our current COVID outbreak and Oregon’s Stay home, Save Lives campaign many of us have transitioned to working at home while we navigate through the upcoming months. Working from home brings a few different challenges when it comes to physical comfort. Most often...
Bend Wellness: 5 Exercise Ideas During COVID-19 Social Distancing
As the country bands together to slow the spread of COVID-19 (a.k.a., the coronavirus) through the practice of social distancing, many have found their regularly exercise routines disrupted. Gym closures, group fitness class cancellations and the closing of...
Physical Therapy Telehealth Options for Social Distancing
Changing times offer moments for innovation of new strategies for providing patient care. Alpine Physical Therapy is dedicated to finding the right solution for you and our community’s needs. We are excited to now offer Telemedicine/Telehealth Services: What is...
What is Osteoarthritis?
When it comes to the general aches and pains we experience, there is often one common culprit: osteoarthritis. While many know it by many different names (Uncle Arthur, degenerative joint disease, osteoarthrosis, degenerative osteoarthritis), over 51 million adults...
Bend Artists: Don’t Let Pain or Injury Dampen Your Creative Spirit
We often don’t consider the long-term impact that practicing the fine arts can have on the body. Yet, according to Bend physical therapist Rob Hollander, dancers, musicians, visual artists and even performing artists are not immune to...
Help a Loved One Live a More Active, Healthful Life
We typically wish for those we love to live their best, most healthful lives. That’s why it can be both frustrating and worrisome when a loved one slips onto a more sedentary lifestyle track – one that could be harmful...
Create Heart-Healthy Habits During Heart Month
February is American Heart Month, a time when health professionals like physical therapists strive to raise awareness about maintaining and improving cardiovascular health. The month also serves as a sobering reminder that, as a society, we must do a better job of...