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Jan 5, 20191 min read

What do you need to know about Physical Activity Guidelines (PAG) 2018?

Published in November, 2018, these guidelines update the previous ones. This document is intended for professionals with several key...

Dec 29, 20182 min read

Fit4Work: Getting ready for 2019!

Happy New Year!! I am spending the final days of 2018 on the Outer Banks of NC where I have the good fortune of being on my own for a few...

Feb 11, 20182 min read

Fit4Work Debuts in the Big Apple!

Fit4Work has been a concept, a website, a book, and a lecture mostly focused on WHY you should apply work capacity and ergonomic concepts...

Apr 28, 20173 min read

Physical Activity: Promoting Age Appropriate Physical Activity Levels

Walking. A relatively simple act. But do we walk enough? Mitchell, 2014, suggests we need to consider not only time spent engaging in...

Apr 9, 20172 min read

Exercising images of people with disabilities

I was working on some blog posts about fitness for people with disabilities. I searched google and google images for photos. Because I...

Mar 11, 20163 min read

The Obesity Epidemic: What are you doing about it?

Obesity is a huge problem in this country. The APTA has initiatives regarding obesity and we have guidance from MoveForward PT. I would...

Feb 6, 20162 min read

Balance Measures and WFL

Nothing irks me more than global statements not based on fact or grounded in some sort of data. Within functional limits falls into this...

Jan 29, 20161 min read

Three things you need to perform Fit4Work Work Capacity Evaluations for Youth with Disabilities

How do we, as physical therapists, evaluate students with disability in the Fit4Work framework? There are 2 documents to help you in the...

Jan 10, 20162 min read

Physical Activity: Steps, Fitbits and Kids

By every government and published statistic, I have not seen any data to support that we are adequately fit, and fitness is worse for...

Jan 1, 20163 min read

Fit4Work: The Foundation

This feels very monumental to be writing my first blog post about Fit4Work. I feel like I should start at the beginning, the birth. The...