Artemis Physical Therapy, PLLC

Artemis Physical Therapy, PLLC Move Well. Be Well. Experience the difference of expert, 1:1, patient-first care. Specializing in Orthopedics and Pelvic Health. Get back to what you love faster.

Experience the difference of patient-first, 1:1: care with physical therapy expert Dr. Sally Moores. Specializing in Orthopedics, Women's Health, Cancer Survivorship and Weakend Warriors.

11/21/2025

Pelvic floor leaking at 6 months postpartum can look like a strength problem, but a lot of the time it’s coordination.

Today I had a patient doing everything “right,” yet her quickflicks were still all over the place. Instead of piling on more reps, we went up to the cranial nerves to clean up the signal between her brain and her pelvis.

Her left eye struggled with pencil push-ups. Gargling for 10 seconds was way harder than it should’ve been. Both of those are midline jobs. So is the pelvic floor. When the midline communicators are fuzzy, the pelvic floor can’t organize well either.

We added a smell drill on the underperforming side, and her quickflicks sharpened almost instantly. No extra Kegels. No gadgets. Just better communication.

If you want more breakdowns like this or you’re curious how neurology fits into pelvic floor care, drop your questions in the comments.

11/14/2025

Right butt pain fixed by… a left shoulder circle. Yep.

Today I had a patient with that classic deep right butt pain. You know the kind. Instead of poking the hip or cranking on her piriformis, we went upstream. I had her do slow shoulder circles and scapular clocks on the left side while holding a vibrating ball, and her hip pain dropped fast. Her motion opened up too.

Why it worked comes down to the combo I keep teaching. Right side PMRF calms down with left side cerebellar input, and the right hip has a lifelong pen pal in the left shoulder. Opposing joints talk to each other whether we acknowledge it or not. So when the hip is yelling, sometimes the quickest win is nudging its buddy across the diagonal.

Clinicians, if you keep chasing symptoms, you’re going to miss some of the easiest wins. Follow the lines. Follow the input. The nervous system is running the show anyway.

If you want more cross body clinical gems, tell me.

11/14/2025

Most people chase back pain by smashing the back.

Clinicians know better.

If the obliques are locked down or the rib cage is glued in place, the back never gets a fair shot.

I see this all the time in clinic: someone’s “tight back” is really a front-body pressure problem, an overprotective nervous system, or ribs that forgot how to move.

A little anterior tissue work or breath-driven rib mobility changes the whole picture.

If you teach this stuff, show your people how the front and back talk to each other. It’s simple, underrated, and surprisingly powerful.

Want more of these clinical riffs? Tell me what you’re treating this week.

11/10/2025

We all have those patients who stretch the same spot every day because it “feels good.”

And honestly, we’ve all reinforced it at some point because it seemed harmless.

But when the same tissues keep asking for attention, that’s not a flexibility problem, that’s a regulation and coordination problem.

If your patient keeps chasing that temporary relief, their system is telling you it doesn’t feel supported.

Start thinking less “lengthen the thing” and more “give the nervous system options.”

Clinicians, if you know exactly which patient’s face popped into your mind while reading this, you’re in the right room.

11/07/2025

A lot of what we call “tightness,” “weakness,” or “stress” is really the nervous system running high. The vagus nerve is a big player in that.

Quick check-in I use all the time: swallow three times in a row.

Smooth = system is settling.

Sticky or strained = your system might be guarding.

Simple ways to support tone:
• Long slow exhales
• Humming
• Jaw and neck mobility
• Gargling for 20 to 30 seconds

For clinicians: when you treat the system behind the symptom, outcomes change fast. This is where your work starts to feel more precise and less like guesswork.

How’s your system today? Can you swallow 3 times? Let me know in the comments below 👇🏻

11/06/2025

🤯 Neurology FTW! Storytime 👇🏻

This patient came in for wrist and forearm weakness. The kind where you can lift something, but it feels like the strength leaks out on the way.

The easy thing would have been to go straight for the wrist. Grip work. Eccentrics. Forearm massage. But he's been doing that for more than a year.

But the same side of his body had a few things that didn’t match the orthopedic picture.

👀Double vision when looking to the left. (CN 6)
😉A drooping eyelid. (CN 3)
😖Chronic neck tightness that seemed to move around but never actually left. (CN 11)
😬Jaw tension at night that he thought was “just stress.” (CN 5)

When you see a cluster like that you have to pause and think about how the brain is organizing tone and stability on that side of the body.

So we worked with the trigeminal nerve. Light touch to the face. Why, because it was the easiest. Plus, the cranial nerve has the biggest connection with the brain stem 🧠
Thirty seconds. Maybe a minute.

And his wrist test changed.
The strength was there the whole time. The nervous system was simply guarding.

This work isn’t magic. It’s paying attention.
The head sets the tone.
If the jaw is bracing, the whole chain braces.
When the jaw feels safe, the shoulder and wrist finally get to move like they were designed to.

If you’re a clinician and this kind of thing makes your brain light up, stick around. This is the work I love to teach.

11/05/2025

We love to blame the hamstrings for everything.

Tight hamstrings, cranky hamstrings, hamstrings holding your entire life together.

Meanwhile… this was a nervous system and pressure problem.

When I inverted and breathed into my thoracic and back body, I changed the input. I gave my system a sense of support and safety.

Then my range opened up.

Not because I got more flexible in 15 seconds, but because my body stopped guarding.

If you try this, I want to know:
Did it change anything for you?
Could you get further?
Or did your nervous system say, “Nope, not today”?

Tell me in the comments what you noticed.
I’m here for the wins, the surprises, and the “well that was interesting…” moments.

11/03/2025

Your tongue might be the reason your feet hurt.

Sounds crazy, but it’s true. The tongue connects through layers of fascia and nerves that reach all the way down the body.

When it’s tight or not coordinating well with your breath and neck, it can shift how you carry tension and how your feet hit the ground.

If you’ve tried everything for foot pain and nothing’s worked, it might be time to look higher up. 👅👣

10/30/2025

I am weird. I do the breathing, the sensory resets, the nervous system work that makes people tilt their head and ask, “Wait… this is PT?” 🤔

But some of my patients are not weird, and that is okay. They still need their nervous system to calm down and communicate, they just do not want it to look like weird PT.

So I sneak it in through movement that looks totally normal.

Want to see how?

Comment Exercises below and I will send you my free guide that explains it all.

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Move Well. Be Well. Get back to what you love faster. Experience the difference of patient-first, 1:1: care with physical therapy expert Dr. Sally Moores. Specializing in Orthopedics, Women's Health, Cancer Survivorship and Weekend Warriors.