Proactive Core Health

12/20/2025

Herbs for Health
(Not intended as medical advice, just information. Please research or talk to your physician to learn more on your own.)

Sassafras
The edible part of this plant is the young roots and leaves. You can harvest the roots year round to be made into a tea. It is said that dried young leaves can be pulverized into a powder that can be used for thickening soups and gravies. Medicinally this plant is used as an antiseptic, diuretic, diaphoretic and vasodilator.

12/19/2025

Physical Therapy Fun Facts

You produce about 40,000 litres of spit in your lifetime. Or to put it another way, enough spit to fill around five hundred bathtubs – yuck!

12/18/2025

Women's Pelvic Health

One way to combat insomnia, whether due to transitioning into menopause or in general is to make a sleep schedule. This means that no matter what is going on or what day of the week it is, you get up at the same time every day and you set a time to go to bed. This keeps your body in a consistent routine.

12/17/2025

Tabletop while adding in some hip internal and external rotation.

12/16/2025

Another round of INDOOR paddle board Pilates at the Fond du Lac School District Aquatic Center. Sign up online or call the Rec Department for the 6 week winter session!

12/16/2025

Physical Therapy Funnies

12/15/2025

PT Tips

It's that time of year everyone. Snow has the potential to land at any time. If you are going out to shovel please remember use your arms and legs, not your back to do the heavy pushing and lifting. Engage your core to support your low back. No twisting and turning, instead make sure to keep your feet and hips moving in the same direction as your shovel. Step into the movement and if you lifting the shovel to throw the snow, again step and turn into the movement to avoid twisting while keeping your back straight and using your legs again to do the work.

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12/14/2025

12/13/2025

Herbs for Health
(Not intended as medical advice, just information. Please research or talk to your physician to learn more on your own.)

Sitka Spruce
This plant is known to have antiseptic and analgesic properties. It is recommended that you harvest young shoot tips to make a tea that is rich in vitamin C. Combine that with the immature male catkins which are edible both raw or cooked. It is said that the female cones can turn honey-like when roasted if they are young and tender.

12/12/2025

Physical Therapy Fun Facts

We wee enough wee every month to fill a bath!

12/11/2025

Women's Pelvic Health

The fact that there is a link between poor sleep and menopause is really not surprising. According to Dr. Jen Gunter, "areas of the brain that are influenced by estrogen and progesterone are also important in sleep regulation and fluctuations in hormones during the menstrual cycle are known to affect sleep patterns." Various hormones including estrogen and progesterone can affect our circadian rhythm, which cycles are waking and sleeping patterns. Plus progesterone as a hormone is known to have a very mild sedative effect.



Information from The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter