Uplift Wellness

Uplift Wellness The best place to manage pain and feel stronger. We help active individuals get out of pain, move better, and feel confident in their abilities
again.

Chronic pain isn’t normal. Stop guessing, start progressing

THE SAUNAS ARE LIVE!!!You can now start booking your sauna sessions and reap the benefits that they provide. AND just in...
12/23/2025

THE SAUNAS ARE LIVE!!!

You can now start booking your sauna sessions and reap the benefits that they provide. AND just in time for our Holiday Sale.

The holiday season can be very stressful, so we want to make sure you can take advantage of the sale and start feeling better as the new year comes.

If you want to:
✅Improve your heart health
✅Manage MSK/Joint pain
✅Improve your brain health and fight Alzheimer's
✅Recover from training

And so much more, this is great for you. Book your sessions today and start RECOVERING!

SORRY NOT SORRY - If you’re getting generic work and ignored by the person you’re seeing, YOU’RE GETTING ROBBEDI’ve hear...
12/22/2025

SORRY NOT SORRY - If you’re getting generic work and ignored by the person you’re seeing, YOU’RE GETTING ROBBED

I’ve heard so many horror stories from working with people - everything from the person they were working with was literally on the phone the whole time to being forgotten as they were on the heating pad, to having every joint in the body being adjusted and were barely even looked at to see what should actually be worked on.

That may work for some people who don’t have complex issues, or who are experienced with working through their own pain and injuries, but for a lot of us it just isn’t enough. Oftentimes you need precision, attention, actual empathetic care, and education on pain, what contributes to your pain, and specific interventions and approaches for you, not some generic recipe some insurance company decided was best.

That is why Uplift does what it does. I have seen way too many people “fail” their attempts at recovering from pain, despite there barely being any guidance and actual care from where they were going before. We pride ourselves on working WITH you, rather than pushing you to the side because we have 3 other people that hour to work with as well.

If you want an experience that is thorough, specific for you, and doesn’t treat you like a number, reach out. We’d love to hear your story and see how we can help you.

Infrared sauna can be a powerful tool for pain relief and recovery—but only when it’s used safely. 🌿🔥In this post, we’re...
12/19/2025

Infrared sauna can be a powerful tool for pain relief and recovery—but only when it’s used safely. 🌿🔥
In this post, we’re walking you through:

🔵Who should be cautious or get medical clearance before using the sauna
🔵When to avoid sauna completely
🔵How to prepare before, take care of yourself during, and support recovery after your session

Our goal at Uplift is to give you tools that help you feel better, move better, and feel safer in your body—without guessing or pushing past your limits.

Swipe through to learn how to use infrared sauna safely and intentionally, and save this post to review before your next session.

Questions about whether sauna is right for you? Send us a message! — we’re happy to help you figure out a safe plan. 💬

12/17/2025

TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH IF YOU WANT TO HAVE LESS PAIN

I get it. Finding time to take care of your body/health can be tough. But do you know what’s tougher? Dealing with chronic, very preventable pain and health issues that derail your life, cause you to take every medication under the sun and get a spinal fusion at 55.

But first let me be clear, you can and still will have pain/health issues if you train. BUT healthy and strong individuals have a way better prognosis on average. As someone who works with A LOT of people with chronic pain and diseases, the people who have a history of movement and a routine that allows them to take care of their health typically have a WAY EASIER TIME getting out of their pain and improving their health.

They understand how to move. They have a base level strength that allows them to do more things. They typically can explain what they feel a little bit better because they feel their body more intimately. Metabolically they can be healthier, reducing the systemic pain patterns that unhealthy people can experience. It literally just makes it easier to work with as a clinician, and as the client/patient.

Don’t be the person who wishes they started sooner than they did. Plant your tree now. It will improve your life.

If you want some help working through your pain, let us know. We’d love to be apart of your journey

12/16/2025

STUCK IN GENERIC EXERCISE PERGATORY??

Let's change that!

Everything has a time and a place, but we need to be able to move forward and get more challenge, specificity, and function as time goes on.

Here are some common exercises people will do for various pains/weaknesses -> and then some more dynamic/challenging ones you can aim to progress towards!

Monster walks -> Hip airplane
Banded ER's -> Armbar press
Serratus wall walk -> Offset serratus push-up
Ball Heel Raises -> SL Decline Heel Raise (variations)

12/15/2025

GENERIC APPROACHES DON'T ALWAYS WORK FOR CHRONIC PAIN

90% of the people we work with have tried everything else already, and from what it sounds like they didn't get much specific care. Tons of assumptions were made about what they should get (whether it be because insurance dictated interventions, they weren't listened to or seen for more than 5 minutes, or because who they saw before didn't bother to assess at all)

I've found that, especially in the beginning, specificity really matters for specific interventions and protocols. Coupling that with some more general techniques and principles really help to solidify changes.

For example: I always go over breathing/bracing techniques with people who have LBP in some manner, but what will vary is: muscles we release and activate, loaded exercises we do to teach how to hinge, move their spine, train their core, load into their hips and shoulders, etc.

Principals may be the same, but intervention and strategy will change and evolve.

That's what makes the difference in the long run.

12/12/2025

“I was always told I was going to need surgery and never believed that. I’m glad I didn’t and decided to try to get better here.”

This is something one of our best clients told us a few months back. She had debilitating hip pain (she literally couldn’t walk around her uneven yard because it would hurt too much and she would be debilitated for days.

What did we do? We Assessed the situation, figured out what were the major things we needed to focus on, help her move better with more confidence, and then loaded her.

Was it immediate? No. Did it take time, effort, consistency, and a lot of problem solving? Absolutely. But she avoided an unnecessary hip replacement that would’ve fixed the local anatomy, but not the thing that was causing her hip to compress and become as limited as it was.

This can absolutely be you, it just takes some effort, problem solving, and a never give up attitude. Keep pushing on and do what you can. You’ll thank yourself for it.

12/11/2025

TIGHTNESS DOESN’T MEAN DIG IN!! (Especially when you are experiencing pain and dysfunction)

All tightness tells you is that there is a motor control or stability issue that your CNS is detecting, putting a parking brake on the musculature to not let the muscle decrease it’s tone and force on the joint. Of course a systemic stress response will create tightness as well, but even stress manifests physically, typically creating a hypertonic state from the nervous system.

Sometimes that tightness can be a muscle that is shortened and facilitated, which would definitely warrant some good soft tissue work or stretching. Other times it may be a muscle that is already lengthened, inhibited by something, trying to create tension to control the joint from this weakened position, which DOES NOT warrant soft tissue work or stretching.

This may seem trivial, but it can really make a difference. If something is already being down regulated, further down regulation may create more dysfunction in the system - the last chance at control is lost, potentially leading to more problems (typically pain and injury). You would be better off taking the tight muscle through it’s full excursion of movement (fully shortening and lengthening it), so that way you expose it to where it is (which “feels safe”) and to what it needs (more concentric control), in a controlled manner to help re educate the nervous system on what the muscle should be doing from a basic action standpoint. Then you can further integrate with loading to restore more function.

The point is, tight doesn’t mean release. It could mean strengthening instead. It’s why we don’t just dig into things for the sake of “releasing” it here at Uplift. It could just make you feel worse in the long run, especially when the work is aggressive in nature.

12/10/2025

DAILY THINGS I DO FOR MY BACK

3 VERY easy things to do for your back daily that should help keep it mobile, stable, and feeling strong!

Muscle Pendulums: Essentially you are doing a form of a PNF, fully contracting and lengthening it, under control, coordinating breathing as you do it. This can help re-coordinate the muscle, decrease tissue tension, and improve joint mobility through the controlled movement.

90/90 Breathing and bracing: The function of the core is to to manage intra-abdominal pressure as a means to help transfer force, produce force, and maintain the lumbar curvature. This drill is a great way to train that in a relatively easy position that gives you a lot of bang for your buck.

Crocodile breathing: Very similar intent as the above, but in extension. Gravity really wants to put you into further extension and you have to use your breath and brace to maintain a neutral position while also keeping the core contraction during full breath cycles.

Typically when I have somebody who has back pain, we usually go through some variation of these three types of things to help the person learn how to breathe and brace, decrease tension and decrease pain. These can all be progressed or regressed, making them great interventions to do for multiple skill levels.

Eventually these often become a quick warm-up for people to do to get into their more heavy loading as time goes on!

Have you ever done something like these before? let us know down below!

12/09/2025

Why I strength train (especially when I don’t want to)

I don’t want to put my life and health up to chance. I don’t want to struggle doing basic activities with family, friends, around the house, etc. I don’t want to struggle carrying something for 25 feet. I don’t want to be fearful that any movement can ‘set off my back pain’.

I choose to be more resilient. I choose to be able to handle physical tasks with ease. I choose the hard of being consistent with training when I don’t want to, because that hard is WAY better than the hard of chronic pain and illness.

This is why we emphasize strength so much at Uplift. Of course strength training doesn’t mean that you will never have pain or health issues. But it will reduce your risk of developing chronic illness, all cause mortality, injury, falling, etc. And I would rather be someone who is strong and well abled in pain than someone who’s capacity is so low you that you have to build from the ground up.

I’ve never heard anyone complain about being too strong or too healthy. I’ve definitely heard people wish they would’ve taken better care of their health, weight trained, and dealt with their aches and pains earlier than they did.

If you’re looking to work through your chronic pain, and learn how to strength train through the process, let us know. We would love to help you out.

🚨Things I wish more people knew as a LMT/Coach!🚨🟦Deep tissue work doesn’t mean “More Results”🟦Tightness doesn’t mean str...
12/09/2025

🚨Things I wish more people knew as a LMT/Coach!🚨

🟦Deep tissue work doesn’t mean “More Results”
🟦Tightness doesn’t mean stretch
🟦The site of your pain often isn’t the cause of the pain
🟦Pain is an output - it doesn’t mean you need to stop what you’re doing
🟦If you tell yourself you’re broken, your body will feel broken
🟦Arthritis doesn’t mean move less, it means move more and better

These are conversations that I have so often with people as they begin to work with me, and most of the time it's the first time they're hearing this.

For some reason the people they've seen in the past either don't know this, or gatekeep the information from them, which is baffling.

There's so much misunderstanding about what pain is, the role of manual therapy, how to navigate chronic pain without letting your reaction be extreme, etc. My goal is to help as many people as I can understand their pain, not be fearful of it, and work through it to become stronger than before. That's what we do at Uplift.

Have you heard these things before? Let us know below!

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