Is your child experiencing back pain from their backpack?

Prevent backpack back pain in kids with expert tips from Kathleen McDonough, Physical Therapist, to keep your child’s spine safe.

Not only is October National Physical Therapy Month, but also Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Really, just a great month to take care of your health!

As your trusted Physical Therapist and Pilates Expert, my goals are always YOUR goals. What matters to you? What are you not doing that you would love to get back to doing? What are the obstacles to that goal: Pain? Strength? Flexibility? Cardiorespiratory fitness? Fatigue? Fear? (yeah, that can be a thing, for sure!).

Did you think pole trekking was just for older people? Find out why pole trekking is a great exercise for all ages!

Why are Physical Therapists, Health Blogs and FitBits always telling you to get up and move? Do you need to move around if you keep good posture? Yes! Read my experience to learn why!

Looking to avoid pain and stress over the holidays? Check out my “12 Tips of Christmas” article!

What is tennis elbow? How do you get rid of or handle tennis elbow? Learn about the symptoms, and more importantly what can be done for tennis elbow.

Time for those summer travel trips! Follow these tips to keep your healthy routines in while having fun on your vacation. These are my vacation health tips I have passed along to patients over the years.

Kathleen is one of very few practitioners providing Blood Flow Restriction Therapy - enabling sports professionals and patients to make greater strength gains while lifting lighter loads, thereby reducing the overall stress.

Happy New Year and Best Wishes for a Healthy 2022!

If we have learned anything in the past 2 years, it is to be flexible. Plans, goals and dreams get made and then have to change. We live and learn and adjust and still try to live our best lives, and then sometimes we just don’t.

Hard to believe that 2021 is winding down. What year is it? It's not 2020 anymore, right?

2022 will be here in less than 75 days, and I am not talking about how many shopping days until Christmas. I am talking about your health and your money. Before the year is up, take full advantage of your health insurance before the end of the year.

Do you find that your vacation workout resolve dissolves into lifting the morning paper and a cup of Joe instead of weights? Yeah, me too —and I am a Pilates teacher!! Even the most dedicated fitness buffs may have a hard time keeping up with core exercises and strength training when away from home. There are a few small, lightweight, and inexpensive props tucked into your suitcase that can help you keep up your excellent work, even when away from home.

Minimal Running: What is it? Should I try it? Many years ago, I was away with friends, sitting around the fire, and my friend Susan, reading an article in Runners’ World, asked what I thought about Barefoot Running. I had never heard of such a thing, and my first reaction was “that is the dumbest thing I have heard of, and sounds like a good way to get injured.” Fast forward a few more years and much more reading on the topic, I was intrigued. I was in my 40’s, still ran on trails in “modern running shoes” that I swapped for a new pair every 3-4 months, but almost always started the first third of the run with creaky knees. I wasn’t confident that I could keep running into my 5th decade and beyond.

With COVID cases decreasing, vaccination rates increasing and restrictions easing, it is time to take care of business. And I mean the business of feeling comfortable in your body. There are many factors from COVID 19 that have put physical stress on our bodies. Many people have had to work from home with non-ideal ergonomics and excess screen time. I have heard a lot of people complaining about weight gain since the closures of gyms. Add to those factors, stress from finances, managing children while working at home, loss of jobs ... I could go on. The point is that one or many of these factors could be contributing to pain and dysfunction.

In part 1, The Fabulous Foot, I talked about the wonderful piece of engineering our feet are and how we need to use them as nature intended. As the discussion continues, what I am really addressing is locomotion. In other words, how we walk and run. So, in this second part, I'm going to talk about the hip joint and the muscles around it.

As a physical therapist, I see many people suffering from problems with their feet. A survey from the American Podiatric Medical Association found that 77% of Americans have experienced foot pain. 

Although many businesses are closed, routine medical appointments and medically necessary treatments ARE ALLOWED to stay open.

Our current situation with COVID 19 and children doing remote learning is raising concerns for some parents about their children's health.

Since moving to my new office, I have not been able to teach my weekly Pilates Fundamentals Mat class. Many of you have told me how much you miss it and that you wish it was available in another format, so here you go!

It almost sounds laughable as I type it. A pandemic the world has not seen before is changing every part of our daily lives. But do we still expect ourselves to keep our healthy habits unwavering and strong?