Posts by Sara Baker
What to Expect at Your First Physical Therapy Appointment
At Inspire Health, your first physical therapy session is a comprehensive experience designed to set the foundation for your recovery. Prior to your appointment, you’ll complete online intake forms detailing your personal information, medical history, and therapy goals. During the session, your therapist will discuss your condition in depth, conduct a thorough evaluation—including assessments of range of motion, strength, neurological function, and movement quality—and explain your physical therapy diagnosis. Together, you’ll develop a personalized treatment plan, and you’ll receive a full treatment on the day of your evaluation, along with self-care information and exercises to perform at home.
Read MoreAtlanta Traffic Crisis Rescue Kit: Part II – Mindful Movements
MINDFUL MOVEMENT TIPS from Sara Baker, PT, MS, OCS MOVEMENT: Is sitting in your car for hours morning and evening turning your spine into an aching mess? Use these simple exercises to keep your spine mobile and muscles active. Caution: do these only when traffic has stopped and you can put your car in park-…
Read MoreAtlanta Traffic Crisis Rescue Kit: Part I – Mindful Meditation & Nutrition
Blood pressure is rising, patience is wearing thin, and backs are aching on roads across Atlanta. We all need a strategy for getting through the next 6 weeks- hopefully not any longer! Inspire Health is delivering you a traffic rescue kit for mind and body. Implement it daily and we promise you will mitigate the…
Read MoreSara’s Corner: For the Love of Pilates
Our love of pilates, in particular STOTT PILATES®, is pretty obvious. It is at the core of what we do. If you come to us for fitness, it may surprise you to know we use pilates as part of our physcial therapy program and many of my physical therapy clients are curious to know why we…
Read MoreSara’s Corner: Prehabilitation is the New Word
There’s a new word floating around in the physical therapy world; prehabilitation. The concept of preparing your body physically for a planned surgery, usually a joint replacement or other orthopaedic surgery, but really it could be any planned surgery or procedure. Research is starting to show there is benefits to this in the way of…
Read MoreSara’s Corner: Ode to a New Year
Welcome 2016! I’m embracing you with open arms and a hopeful heart! You may ask that I make a resolution to set myself straight for your duration, but I refuse. I’m just not that kind of woman. I don’t make declarations of rigidity in my life and I don’t set myself up for failure. I…
Read MoreUrgent!
I’m attending the American Physical Therapy Association annual conference in Charlotte this week and am trying to soak up as much as I can of the immense amount of information available. In one day I was in sessions introducing the annual fitness physical, neuromuscular control dysfunction (knees in particular) and cervical and thoracic spine involvement…
Read MoreIntense Training = Healthier in Life
I found this article discussing a study on later life health status of collegiate athletes versus recreational athletes published the American Journal of Sports Medicine interesting and wanted to share it with IH’s community. I have worked with many past competitive athletes and ex-military who are now suffering from and managing degenerative joint disease (arthritis).…
Read MoreFlywheel Observations
I was at Flywheel last week for a great class with Ashley. It is always a fun place to look at postures and peoples’ movement patterns. I couldn’t help but notice a gentleman on a bike in front of me as we pumped away to the beat of the music. He was furiously pedaling and…
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