Emily Goodell Physical Therapy (2025)

25/12/2020

Merry Christmas!! So thankful for the blessings of this year and the greatest blessing of all, the gift of Jesus Christ!

That star is a wonderful addition by my nephew Isaac! I'm surprised the wise man haven't showed up at our house yet.

24/12/2020

Pain is often a delayed response to dysfunction. Treat the dysfunction before it's painful. ⁠

🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at .com in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.⁠

22/12/2020

Maybe your knees hurt because your grandmas knees hurt... But maybe there is a stronger correlation to how you use your knees everyday and your discomfort. DON'T STOP READING HERE!

I'm not talking about running or not running but I'm talking about how your are loading through your joint. You're mechanics up and down the chain effects how you are loading at your knee joint and can cause inappropriate wear and tear through your knee joint. You know that stiff hip, or that ankle mobility problem that you've had for years, or the fact that you run 6 miles a day but can't balance on one leg for 10 seconds?? Those deficits effect your wear pattern through your knee joint. Are you taking intentional time not just to run but to work your strengthening and your mechanics? Be intentional about working on these things before you become painful.

🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at .com in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.⁠

04/12/2020

Did you know that you should feel a double leg glute bridge in your glutes not in your back?? Why does this matter? Because every time you take a step if you can't extend through that hip using your glute then you will compensate through your back. We reinforce our movement in our strength routine. Make sure when you do any glute bridge variation you are strengthening your glutes.

🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at .com in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.

26/11/2020

Happy Thanksgiving! I bet your Thanksgiving dinner didn’t show up knocking at your front door like ours did 🦃😂.

This past year has been marked with a lot of difficult circumstances for our family, with the passing of Josh’s sister, and the pandemic hitting two months after we took the leap to start our business 🙆‍♀️.

But overall its been a year of Thanksgiving to a God who has continued to bless us, provide, and walk with us through circumstances and hardship. A God who has continued to pursue our hearts and reveal his heart to us.

I’m so thankful for Josh and all he has done to make some of my dreams come true. There are no words that could begin to express how much I love and am thankful for this guy.

I’m so thankful for our families and their endless support and encouragement.

I’m so thankful for all of our friends, clients, fans, athletes, softball coaches, and athlete parents for their support and encouragement.

It’s good to think about things in our life that we can be thankful for this holiday, but ultimately being thankful isn’t about our circumstances but our perspective.

It’s choosing to worship God in and through our circumstances. Choosing to believe that He is good and is working things out for our good even if our current experience of it doesn’t seem to match that reality.

One last note: I’m thankful for our little turkey coming in Feb 2021!

19/11/2020

You have some pain on the front of your knee when running🏃‍♀️. How do you get rid of it❓ Here are some ideas🧐

#1 check your ANKLE MOBILITY - I would recommend at least 15 deg of Ankle motion. If you are lacking ankle motion you can have more stress on the front of your knee as your run

#2 check your QUAD MOBILITY - you should be get your knee to touch your butt or be pretty close while laying on your stomach (make sure to keep that hip down and keep that don't let that knee come away from your body). If your quad is tight it might add tension through the front of the knee.

#3 check your quad/glute STRENGTH - You should be able to do a controlled single leg squat at least to parallel for multiple reps keeping your knee behind your toe and your hips square. If you can't sink back into or your glute you might be overloading that quad as you run causing pain in the front of that knee.

#4 check your core STABILITY - You should be able to keep that knee in line with your toe. Lack of glute strength can cause your knee got calve in. That will cause increase tension on that patellar tendon and might result in knee pain.

🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.⁠

13/11/2020

The answer for all mobility questions is not stretching. We can have something called POSITIONAL STIFFNESS. Our muscles attach to our bones. Demonstrated in the picture is the hamstring which connects to your butt bone. If we don't control the position of our pelvis through our core stability that elongates that hamstring tissue putting it on stretch. It can appear as though we need to stretch our hamstring but really what we need to do is reposition our hips to allow our hamstring to move through it's available range. ⁠

🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at .com in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.⁠

10/11/2020

Contact vs. noncontact injuries: What’s the difference? Watch the video ☝️. Most chronic, noncontact injuries are deficits built up over time that lead to pain and injury. ⁠
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Contact injury: two cars 🚗 run into each other ⁠
Non-contact injury: bad alignment that causes the tires to wear out ⁠
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Noncontact injuries can include ACL tears, labral tears, Tendinitis issues, stress fractures, muscle soreness, and so many other things. NON-CONTACT INJURIES ARE TOTALLY PREVENTABLE 😱 in most situations. But we have to maintain appropriate alignment, or strength and mobility in the case of our bodies.

05/11/2020

The goal of the plank is not to necessarily to hold as long as you 😲 can but to burn out as fast as you can and the only way to do this is to get those abs on and burning. If you hold it all day but don’t feel anything in your abs this does nothing for you😫. All you are doing is relying on your bony anatomy rather than on your muscles❌. ⁠
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A good cue is to “feel like you are pulling your elbows and feet together” and "tuck your hips underneath you"⁠
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🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at .com in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.⁠

04/11/2020

We have a long road ahead of us! You are the one person you've never been able to get away from. Create a comfortable place to stay by addressing your health and aches and pains.

🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at .com in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.⁠

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02/11/2020

YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL A PLANK THROUGH YOUR BACK😲!! ⁠
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Let's take a closer look 🧐⁠
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Core stability… What does that even mean🙄?? I should do 1,000 sit ups a day? Your abs are only one part of your core. If I lumped off your head, your arms, and your legs what’s left is your core. Your butt muscles play a huge part in your core as do your ab muscles and your back. ⁠
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When you do a plank you want to activate your ✅glutes, your ✅ab muscles, and your ✅scapular muscles. Those bones on your back shouldn't wing out❌. In this picture, Josh could even improve his plank more by straighten out his legs but if he feels his plank is his abdominals - mission accomplished🏆!⁠
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🙋🏻‍♀️Hi there! I’m Emily, a physical therapist at .com in Omaha. My passion is to help people live healthy by staying active and injury free. Too many people see me to rehab an injury that was preventable. Non-contact injuries are often caused by movement deficiencies that can be identified and corrected. You really can live pain free, avoid injury, and perform your best.⁠

28/10/2020

Pictures can never quite grasp the beauty of God's creation. We do indeed serve a big God! There is limitations to the camera capturing the truth of the moments and the vastness of the earth. Pictures can never quite capture it all but just remind us of what we did see. I always wonder the limitations of our own eyes in seeing the beauty of God's creation.

Emily Goodell Physical Therapy