Xtra Mile Physical Therapy

Xtra Mile Physical Therapy XMPT helps active people to be happy, healthy and strong without pain.
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10/28/2025

A simple lateral step down is such a basic way to improve single leg dynamic balance, hip and quad strength while encouraging ankle mobility with proper alignment.
Simple, but not easy!
Give it a simple try like I did in the video, and if it’s too easy, then go from a steeper step like an 8 inch step., Or even further!

10/17/2025

Runners can be the worst patients, but I understand that unique nature of a runner to be able to speak to their challenges and issues.

The endorphin rush we get from running makes us deal with pain in a different way than most of the normal population does.

This leads to neurotic behavior where we do irrational things such as run on an injury.

From experience, I’ve had the same issue with ignoring my body signals to just plow through that next run or workout.

We behave like addicts many times!

So as a physical therapist who deals with runners’ issues all day, it’s important to have a runner to runner conversation on what activities are OK and which ones are not.

It’s this relationship that separates me from the normal run of the mill physical therapist, and what helps me get better results.

10/16/2025

All your desk workers out there, listen up.

By getting up from your chair routinely and doing a couple stretches like shown here in the video, you will find that you feel better in general after doing this for just a week or so.

The first exercise demo is to try to create some passive extension of your thoracic spine, which tends to get really flexed forward with your head and shoulders, leaning towards the screen all day.

The second exercise is actually for strengthening the muscles in the mid back that tend to get lengthened and weakened over extended periods of time slumping.

By doing simple exercises like this, you can feel better with your daily function, but also with your exercising such as running.

For further tips and exercise ideas, be sure to follow me and DM me if you have any questions.

10/15/2025

In nearly 20 years of practice as a physical therapist, I know that many painful conditions take some time to feel better.

However, with the technology we have now, people can feel much better sooner because we are doing things to address the body’s healing mechanisms.

With SoftWave TRT, we’re able to help your body stimulate your own stem cells, which can get you back to moving optimize sooner.

If you haven’t tried it, you just gotta feel it. It’s hard to explain but it’s amazing.

Give me a call or text at 360-800-2799 and we’ll set up a time to see if software can help your pain!

10/15/2025

Ibuprofen it’s so often the treatment of choice when runners have an acre pain somewhere in their body.

Since it’s an anti-inflammatory, it helps with feeling better in the short term.

However, due to blocking prostaglandins in the inflammatory pathway, it limits the ability for the body to build what it needs to repair.

There’s also a whole host of other negative effects from taking this drug, including increase heart attack, and stroke risk. It also creates a toxic load to the kidneys and liver.

Plus your body gets weaker at the area of your injury and we start the cycle all over again.

Instead, I teach my clients ways to heal naturally without the use of ibuprofen or ice or any other superficial treatments that really don’t make a difference.

Things like red light devices, voodoo compression wraps and therapeutic movements to enhance the body’s natural healing capacity are much better pathways to create lasting change in the body that most of my clients are desiring.

Softwave technology is also gangbusters for helping healing the body from within. It stimulates what our body needs to do to attack areas that are inflamed or scarred down or not moving well, plus enhance circulation.

So if you reach for the ibuprofen every time you have an injury, and you’ve noticed that you still have the same thing over and over again, drop me a message and I’m happy to talk to you about much less risky ways to improve your health and mobility.

10/13/2025

I’ve been seeing Kevin for his complete rotator cuff tear for several months now, and the results that he’s gotten from treatment has been phenomenal.

Originally he couldn’t raise his arm out in front of him without pain, and now he’s lifting up to 25 pounds Without any issues at all.

If you have a rotator cuff tear, surgery is not the only option.

I’m happy to talk to you about what SoftWave therapy can do for you to get you back and moving without pain and invasive procedures, including expensive and risky surgery

10/10/2025

These two simple things can really help you improve your ability to squat in a way that is more comfortable and is easy to scale.

By placing a wedge underneath your heels, this usually helps you keep good alignment, usually because there is a lack of ankle mobility, hip mobility, and or thoracic mobility issues.

The heel wedge allows us to get a good workout in our quads and hips without compromising with a foot turning out, and knees going in.

There are more things to work on, including ankle mobility drills, and hit mobility drills, but to get a good basic squat, using some heel wedges and a kettle bell placed in front of you can help create a sense of balance when you are squatting.

Give it a try and see how it goes! If you need any more help with knee pain or any other pain with squatting, send me a message and I’m happy to talk you through what you can possibly do to improve this.

By going through our Total Body movement screen, we can pinpoint the exact things you need to do to get better with your squat.

10/10/2025

So great to do an event at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Salmon Creek today, talking about how mobility is freedom for a life style of independence.

I had the group of seniors do a basic set of sit, to stands from a folding chair, and many people couldn’t do it without being unsteady.

Also, on single leg balance, a lot of people were having difficulty with that. It was quite revealing to see, and it was interesting to see how challenged each participant felt and realize how hard it was for them to do.

We really need to take care of ourselves, and I know that doing the things we do to help train people to get stronger helps them live better and more productive lives for a longer time. It’s not just about how long but the quality of life, with the choice to move however you’d like to in your life.

It’s also great to show folks the SoftWave technology, and I’m hoping it impacted people‘s minds to try 21st-century technology that is there for us to use if we’re willing to try a new thing.

10/09/2025

Excited to be taking my soft wave TRT machine to Woodland this Sunday 10/12/25 for healing sessions with this amazing technology!

is an absolutely amazing business that promotes healing within, and I’m so happy that they’ve invited me to come up again. I was up there in February when their business was brand new, and now they’ve grown so much and I’m so excited for them.

There are still some spots available, which are 20 minutes long and involves a full treatment of technology that activates your own bodies healing capacity.

Hope to see you there!

10/09/2025

The most dangerous part of rehab is when you feel a lot better and maybe have no pain at all.

This is when many clients have the urge to go out and do their runs nearly at the full capacity that they were previously.

This is a common pitfall where people get stuck in the injury re-injury cycle.

It’s important to honor this stage that although we feel better in terms of pain, there’s a lot more tissue integrity and strengthening. We need to do to make sure that we’re strong in those body parts so this doesn’t happen again.

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