McCook Therapy and Wellness

11/02/2025

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11/02/2025

Stay Young at McCook Wellness — come in and check out our Fall Specials 🍁

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Experts Reveal Why Building Muscle After 50 Is the Real Fountain of Youth. Most Ignore It.

10/31/2025

Don't forget to stop by tonight!!

10/30/2025

Start early but Safe- McCook Wellness staff can help you learn proper techniques to be safe. Love that it can be a family affair.
** Check out our Fall specials— pair and pack(family) options!

When Dr. Gabrielle Lyon was just 5 years old, her dad took her on 10-mile bike rides—and physical activity became part of her everyday life. That early exposure to movement laid the foundation for her passion for strength, muscle, and now, her career as a board-certified physician and author of “The Forever Strong Playbook.”

“When you instill that kind of physicality into the cultural dynamics of the household, it changes the trajectory for children,” says Dr. Lyon. Now, she’s teaching her own kids the importance of resistance training—much earlier than when she started herself at 17 years old.

As more families bring structured fitness into their routines, experts are noticing a shift. “This generation of children is seeing their parents at the gym, and so it’s more common for a family to do that together,” says Dr. Eva Seligman of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

And even though the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) has been issuing position statements on the importance of youth resistance training since 1985, getting kids involved still feels a bit “avante-garde,” Dr. Lyon says.

“There are these outdated myths, for example, that training affects bone growth and there [are] lots of injuries,” she says.

The other component at play is that culturally, young girls aren’t encouraged to pick up, say, kettlebells from an early age, but instead to enroll in dance classes, for example.

“There is this very early mental programming that I think changes the landscape of musculature in kids,” Dr. Lyon says. “We have to be very conscious of that if we want to change the metabolic landscape.”

10/30/2025

This week we will highlight Occupational Therapy! 🌟 Celebrating our amazing OTs and OT students making a difference every day!

10/24/2025

Happy PT Month!
Have you met our awesome team?
Thanks for all you do to help heal our community! 🧡🤍🖤

10/24/2025

Love our PTs thanks for all you do Mike, Alex, and Emily 🧡🖤💚

🧡 This , we’re celebrating the incredible work of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants everywhere.

Thank you for helping people stay active, independent, and thriving at every stage of life — your expertise, dedication, and care make a real difference every single day.

10/24/2025

Weight For It………. Join us for one of our BeFit groups or a Fitness 101/Personal Coaching to learn about the equipment/techniques. We also have a Fall Special for 10% off 3 month memberships. 🦾🏋🏿

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And how many times a week.

10/23/2025

As it gets colder — put your health first. Fall special 10% off single 3 month memberships or 20% off of a pair(any 2 people). 💚🧡

10/20/2025

Interesting but so true United has cumbersome auth systems and low reimbursement rates. This is hurting both the patients and providers. 😞

Mayo Clinic facilities in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa will not be in network for most UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans.

10/17/2025

With one quarter of school down..

Steve Hartman and his children Meryl and Emmett bring back "Kindness 101" to "CBS Mornings" this fall, sharing stories that highlight kindness, character, an...

10/09/2025

Interesting 🧐