The theme for this week … injuries from hiking Have you been outdoors doing an activity you love and suffered an injury? Hiking is such a wonderful way to enjoy nature and be active. It can also be fraught with danger. Read on … How common are hiking injuries? This 2022 summary from Hikers Daily […]
Coordination between your core, arms or legs have you feeling less than confident? At The Bridging® Institute, we find disruptors to movement fall into consistent categories. As you accumulate more of these over the years, your body is less able to bounce back and find a way to keep going. Life can easily become a […]
Check out this diagram (click to enlarge) “When?” is one of the most important pieces of information we consider You have pain, balance, coordination concerns, or anxiety. As part of our process of getting you back on track physically or developmentally, we want to know what happened and when in order to understand how your […]
Keeping you active at every age to support your best physical, mental and cognitive health is our goal at The Bridging® Institute. You want to stay active, yet life can hand you challenge after challenge. Staying active is really about how we pick ourselves up and keep going when things in life happen. Often a […]
According to the CDC in 2017, approximately 1 million Americans are injured annually as the result of falling on ice and snow. You were careful, but … down you went. 🙁 Nothing was broken, but you just don’t feel yourself. You might have gone to the urgent care to make sure all was ok. What […]
Bike fall in your past? When people come in with mystery pain, a common incident in their past is a bike fall. They often say, “I was fine, nothing was broken.” However, nothing broken doesn’t mean the incident was without lasting consequences. Often a bike fall, whether recent or a long time ago, is the […]
Two days, three clients with falls. ‘Tis the season! Only two days back in the office in the new year and we’ve seen three clients recovering from injuries related to falls. So many ways to slip and fall — stairs, sidewalk, and tripping. Please be careful! As we worked through the Bridging movements with each […]
Sometimes our clients tell it best … A freak fall got this mom surgery and weeks off of her feet A client who sees us annually for a tune-up let us know she had fallen before the holidays. The freak fall fractured her lower right leg (tibia) and left foot, requiring surgery to repair her […]
Proactive work on your balance can reduce the impact of a fall, and help your brain health! Wow, it has been slippery outside! Short story to share about a client who had a close encounter with a sidewalk. Letting the dog out one night, he was victim to the random tug of the leash. On […]