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Parkinson’s Disease: Home Exercise Tips

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides patients with PD with a general understanding of guidelines for stretches, strength training, and cardio exercises, and relaxation activities.
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How To Squat With Good Technique

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
The squat is a foundational movement that can be used to strengthen the quadriceps, glutes, and lower back muscles. Squatting with good technique can be helpful to make sure the correct muscles are being used and to ensure that it does not cause pain. This intervention piece is a useful tool that can be included […]
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How to Calculate Heart Rate

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Being able to calculate one’s own heart rate accurately is a vital skill for those looking to monitor heart rate for health reasons. This handout is designed to help therapists educate people on the different methods to accurately calculate heart rate so they can independently monitor and optimize their health.
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Home Exercise Program Tracking Sheet

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This printable tracking sheet helps clients track their carry-over of trained exercise programs and provides a discussion point during follow-up therapy sessions. It is broken up into space that provides room to track three different exercises across one week.
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Health Management Log

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This health management log can be used to track a variety of important health related information for improved independence and self-awareness.
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Health Benefits of Exercise

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This provides insight into the link between exercise, pain relief, and long-term health. The handout describes how the evidence base has shown that exercise helps you live longer, helps with weight loss, improves health markers, reduces pain, reduces body fat, and improves cognitive skills.
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Hamstring Strains: What to Expect

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Hamstring injuries are common in all populations but account for a large portion of non-contact injuries in athletes such as soccer players. This handout outlines what hamstring injuries are, how they occur, how long to expect to recovery, and a simple way to determine readiness to return to sport.
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Fitting Your Bike

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Cycling has grown in popularity significantly over the last several decades. The repetitive motions associated with biking can easily cause pain over time. This handout will provide a starting point for an appropriate bicycle fit.
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Exercise Intensity Guidelines

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Calculating optimal heart rate during exercise can be tricky to accomplish and remember. This handout provides the basic formulas to calculate maximum heart rate and healthy range of heart rate during both moderate intensity and vigorous intensity exercise.
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Exercise Activities for Older Adults

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Upper body strength is necessary in order to be able to maintain independence and for important tasks such as getting up from a chair and maintaining balance. Exercise can also help regulate blood pressure and diabetes and diminish symptoms of osteoporosis and arthritis. This is a handout with various activities that older adults can use […]
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