Are Your Flip Flops Causing Your Foot Pain?

Summer is here! Time to break out the shorts, tank tops, sunglasses, and flip flops... right? 

Here at ProForm, we love the saying "free the feet.” Summer is the perfect time to "free the feet" because now that it's warm outside, we are able to kick off...

 Reshaping the Traditional PT Model

 Physical Therapy has been growing as a profession for the past couple decades, and for good reason! We have been intuitively treating sick or injured humans with forms of physical activity for a long time, but the contemporary occupation of physical therapy did ...

Don’t Let Calories Burned Dictate Your Training 

Wearables, like apple watches and heart rate monitors, are all the rage these days. They  can give you a ton of information, and can certainly be a great way to track exercise. However, we often hear about people getting caught up in the calories bur...

 A Review of Matt Ibrahim’s Presentation on Deceleration Training

This blog is a brief recap from our recent ProForm workshop where we hosted a presentation by Matthew Ibrahim about the importance of training humans for the deceleration (aka ability to slow down) requirements of life and sport. Our...

 Journey Of Thyself

 “True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.” 

― Craig Hamilton

Imagine the ability to slow down your thoughts, become present with the “now”.  Our daily lives have the ability to cau...

 PT On Your Terms

Direct Access…What is it? And why would I care about it?

Put simply, Direct Access allows physical therapists to treat patients without a doctors prescription.

Yes…you heard correctly!

In the state of Massachusetts we have something known as unrestricted Direct Access, which ma...

 Overlooked And Undervalued Tips To Optimize Recovery From An Injury

 The human body is amazingly resilient and adaptable. Whether you want to believe it or not, it has extraordinary healing powers. Our social constructs have conditioned us to believe that our body’s absolutely need assistance to h...

 Maintain Your Gains on Vacation

Here I am, sitting by the pool in sunny Florida. Soaking up all the Vitamin D and playing my favorite country playlist in the background. Of course, I am here to relax and unwind; aren’t I?!

Well yes but taking time off from work and reality doesn’t always have to ...

 Don’t Let Your Kids Steal Your Gains

You have just over an hour to accomplish a workout in the gym. You want to feel good about it when your are done, maybe a little re-energized to take on the rest of the day.  If you have kids then you cherish this time a little bit more…it’s all about me, baby!...

 You Deserve Better Than Your Insurance

We have been transitioning to a different physical therapy model over the last year. It’s called the “patient care comes first model”. Now some would call this a cash-based physical therapy model, but we will talk about that later. Over the last 12 years of ...

 Pay off your pain like you do your loans!

Pain is extremely complex. It is multi-factorial, so when trying to manage it, we must take a multifaceted approach. However, when dealing with complex scenarios, it can be overwhelming. Trying to find simplicity within complexity can be a helpful strategy...