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Ruther Health + Wellness, 454 Baypark Drive Suite 10, Holland, MI (2026)

03/31/2026

If you’ve been working hard at the gym and still dealing with back tightness, a core that never feels stable, or hamstrings that no amount of stretching seems to fix this one is for you.

We’re hosting a free talk seminar at Orangetheory Fitness in Holland on Sunday, April 12th at 11am, and we’re going to talk about the connection most people never hear about: back pain, core function, and the pelvic floor, and why addressing all three together is what actually changes things.

Most people are training the symptoms. Stretching what’s tight, strengthening what feels weak, managing flare-ups when they come. But the reason none of it fully sticks is usually upstream from where it hurts. And once you understand that, everything starts to make more sense.

You’ll leave with a clearer picture of what’s actually going on in your body and real strategies you can start using right away.

It’s free. It’s an hour. And it might be the most useful thing you do for your body this month.

Sunday, April 12th • 11:00am Orangetheory Fitness Holland, MI

Link in bio to save your spot.

03/30/2026

Your core has been “weak” for years and more planks aren’t helping.

Your hamstrings are always tight and stretching never actually fixes it.

You’ve done PT before and the pain came back anyway.

None of these things are random. None of them are just bad luck or a bad body. There is a reason each one of those keeps happening, and it almost always comes back to the same thing — nobody has looked upstream from where it hurts.

Most physical therapy is built around the symptom. You have knee pain, so you do knee exercises. You have back pain, so you do back exercises. And it helps for a while. Sometimes it helps a lot. But then something shifts, or life gets busy, or you push a little harder, and it’s back. Because the thing driving it was never addressed.

That’s not a failure of effort. That’s a gap in the evaluation.

We don’t start with your symptoms. We start with your system. How you move, how you load, where your body is compensating and why. And when we find the actual driver, the symptoms stop coming back.

Most PT treats where it hurts. We find why.

📞 Book today! 616-537-6613

03/27/2026

Your core isn’t weak. It’s confused.

That’s not an insult. It’s actually really important information.

Because if you’ve been doing the work the planks, the dead bugs, the bird dogs, the hollow holds — and your back still hurts, your posture still collapses, and nothing feels stable, you don’t have a lazy core. You have a core that never learned the right sequence.

Strength without coordination is just effort without results.

Your deep system the diaphragm, the pelvic floor, the transverse abdominis is supposed to activate before you move. Automatically. Without you thinking about it. That anticipatory stability is what actually protects your spine during real life. Not during a plank. During a sneeze. During a grocery bag. During getting out of bed.

When that system is disorganized, you compensate. You brace harder. You grip with your back. Your abs work overtime and your spine still feels like it could give out. And then someone tells you to strengthen your core more, and you do, and nothing changes.

That’s not a you problem. That’s a sequencing problem.

We don’t start by adding load. We start by restoring the pattern. And once the pattern is right, everything else actually holds.

If your core work has never fully fixed it, there’s a reason. We find it.

Call us today at 616-537-6613

03/24/2026

Back pain when lifting doesn’t have to be part of your routine!

Join us for an interactive workshop focused on improving your form, understanding your body, and building confidence with movement.

🗓 April 7th
⏰ 7:00 PM EST
📍 The Yard Gym Holland

Spots are limited, save yours today!
Link is in our bio.

03/24/2026

She was a competitive runner. She hadn’t run in 14 months.

Two years of groin pain. Hip strengthening, modified training, multiple attempts to return. Every single one failed within two weeks. Her imaging showed a labral tear and she was told surgery was the next step.

She came to us before scheduling it.

When we looked at how she actually moved, her pelvis was significantly rotated. Her left side dropped on every stride, driving shear load through her hip with every single step. Her adductors were gripping constantly trying to compensate for that instability. That grip was the groin pain. The labrum was being loaded because of the way her whole system was moving, not because it was simply torn and needed to be cut.

We never touched the labrum.

We addressed the pelvic rotation. We restored glute function that had gone almost completely dormant. We retrained her single-leg stability so her hip wasn’t absorbing load it was never meant to handle alone.

She ran at six weeks. No pain.

She never had surgery.

If you are dealing with a hip or groin injury that keeps coming back no matter what you do, make sure someone has actually looked at the system driving the load into that joint. Not just the joint itself.

That’s the question that changes everything.

616-537-6613 to book your consultation today!

03/23/2026

A lot of people come to us having seen multiple providers, tried multiple treatments, and still not having answers. The first visit is where that changes.

Here’s what you can actually expect:

We start by listening. Not just to the painful area, to the whole story. How long it’s been there, what makes it better, what makes it worse, what you’ve already tried. The history almost always contains the answer. We just have to take the time to hear it.

Then comes the assessment. We look at your whole system how your pelvis is positioned, how your ribcage is moving, how load is traveling through your body. We’re not just looking at where it hurts. We’re looking for why.

Then we treat. We share what we found, explain why it makes sense, and get to work. Most patients feel a shift in that very first session.

You leave with something most people haven’t had before: a clear picture of what’s actually going on and a real plan to fix it.

Fully yours. No rushing, no rotating between patients, no generic exercise handouts.

Just answers.

🔗Check out the link in our bio to get scheduled today.

03/20/2026

Diastasis recti is one of the most misunderstood postpartum diagnoses we see.

It is not a tear. It is not damage. It is a normal adaptation your body made during pregnancy and closing the gap is not the goal.

Here’s what actually matters: a large gap with good pressure management causes zero symptoms. A small gap with a disorganized system can cause pain, leaking, and prolapse. Gap size alone tells us nothing.

We assess the whole system your diaphragm, pelvic floor, deep abdominals, and ribcage. When those are coordinating properly, your body manages the gap the way it was designed to.

Call today: 616-537-6613

03/19/2026

Your pain is not normal.

Common? Yes. Something you just have to live with? Absolutely not.

We hear it all the time “my doctor said this is just part of getting older,” “I’ve just accepted it,” “I’ve tried everything.” And every time, we find something that was missed. A pattern nobody followed. A source nobody looked for.

That’s not a knock on anyone who came before us. It’s just what happens when care is focused on the symptom instead of the system.

We’re built differently. Three providers, one shared philosophy find the root cause, treat the whole person, don’t stop until it actually makes sense.

You shouldn’t have to manage your pain forever. You deserve to understand it. 🤍

🔗Link in bio to book your evaluation

03/18/2026

Most people think pain means something is broken or damaged. But that’s not always the full story.

Pain is a signal. It’s your nervous system deciding a threat is present and protection is needed. And that signal can fire loudly even when the tissue is perfectly fine and quietly even when it’s not.

Two people. Identical MRIs. One in agony, one pain-free. The tissue isn’t the whole picture.

This is why pain gets worse when you’re stressed, not sleeping, or running on empty and better when you finally feel heard and supported. That’s not weakness. That’s biology.

It also means that treating only the tissue is treating only part of the problem. You deserve care that looks at all of it.

When the nervous system feels safe, the protection signal decreases. That’s not a theory. That’s what we see every single day.

Click the link in the bio to get scheduled today.

03/17/2026

Most people walk into labor hoping for the best. Prenatal PT means walking in knowing what your body is capable of.

Your pelvic floor has one of the most important jobs of your life during delivery and most people have never once been taught how it works, how to relax it, or how to work with it when it matters most.

That’s exactly what prenatal PT is for.

We help you understand your pelvic floor before birth so when the moment comes, you’re not guessing. You’re not white-knuckling through it. You know what to do, and your body knows how to do it.

Push with confidence, not fear. 🤍

📞Call us today to book your appointment 616-537-6613

03/16/2026

Four years of jaw pain. A night guard. A TMJ diagnosis. Jaw exercises. Dentist appointments.

She did everything right. And she still woke up every morning with the same aching, clicking jaw.

Because no one had ever looked below it.

On her first visit, we found her cervical spine was compressed, her first rib was elevated, and her thoracic spine had lost years of mobility. The jaw was just the loudest part of a chain that had been pulling on it the whole time.

We didn’t touch her jaw once.

Two sessions later…. four years of pain, gone.

This is what we mean when we say we treat the source, not the symptom. Your jaw, your head, your neck they don’t exist in isolation. They’re part of a system. And when you follow the tension all the way back to where it started, the answers are almost always there.

If you’ve been told it’s TMJ and nothing has fully worked someone needs to look at the whole chain.

Click the link in your bio to make an appointment today!

03/13/2026

We are growing and looking for an orthopedic physical therapist to join our team!

At Ruther Health + Wellness, we address the whole body, not just the symptoms. By combining manual therapy, orthopedic care, PRI principles, and dry needling, we treat the root cause not surface complaints.

Whether you’re a new grad or an experienced PT, we’ve got a place for you!

For new grads: You’ll receive hands-on mentorship, weekly skill sessions, and quarterly workshops to help you become the confident clinician you’re meant to be!

If this sounds like the right place for you, we’d love to meet you! Come shadow a session, ask questions, and see what makes Ruther Health + Wellness special.

Apply now via the link in our bio or email hello@rutherhealth.com!

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