3 Steps to Healthier Hips and Knees

Health & Fitness The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body

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Health & Fitness The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body

For many people, knee pain can be a way of life, limiting their ability to climb stairs, squat down to get something off the floor, enjoy long walks, shopping and a host of other daily activities. The knee joint is one of the most complicated joints in the body and has to bear up to 6 times your body weight while running or jumping. This incredible joint has to move over a million times each year and over 80 million times over a lifetime. This is also the reason why things can go wrong, causing injury and pain. Just like taking care of your heart, your joints need attention to maintain a healthy state. Here are easy ways for you to take care of your knees, avoiding arthritis and other joint problems: 1. Stretch your hamstrings, quadriceps and adductor muscles each day. By keeping these muscles flexible, the forces on your knee joints can be balanced, allowing your joint to bend, rotate and for your patella (kneecap) to track properly. 2. Keep the muscles around your hips and knees strong. Especially the gluteals and quadriceps muscles. Studies show that those adults, especially over 55 who have stronger gluteals and quadriceps, tend to have less back pain and more ability to do daily activities. 3. Exercise regularly. While this is good for the whole body, the knees especially need exercise to keep their cartilage healthy. The cartilage does not have much blood supply and requires its nutrition from joint fluid. Most of the joint fluid absorbs into the cartilage only through movement and compression of the knee. Therefore, it is important to do weight-bearing exercise such as walking, running and other sports. However, if you have arthritis, it is advised to do more lower impact activities such as biking, elliptical machines, aquatic exercises, etc. Having a regular medical checkup ensures that your joints are working at their peak performance. In addition, any problems will be discovered early, preventing the onset of arthritis and joint injury. If you do have arthritis or have had surgery, then a regular medical checkup is especially important. If your attention is on that sore knee, then it is time you called us for a knee joint analysis. Talk to one of our medical professionals today and see how much better life can be with freely moving knees. 3 Easy Steps To Healthy Knees

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Staff Spotlights

Cherie Larsen, PTA Cherie is the newest member of our Pinnacle team. She was born in Utah but has lived in Spokane for the past two years. She has a passion for anatomy, kinesiology, and exercise. She loves to help people decrease their pain, improve function, and increase their overall quality of life through physical therapy. She especially loves treating orthopedic conditions, namely spine and headache issues.

Kendall Zacha, PTA Kendall loves working with patients of all types, although patients who are post-surgical or who have orthopedic injuries is her passion. She loves helping people get back to the sport or activity they enjoy. Physical therapy is her passion because she loves to see how far patients have come in their journey and know that they have gotten to that place of better health, well-being, and functional mobility.

In her spare time, she loves to hike, mountain bike, ski, explore the great outdoors, lift weights, study nutrition, and she plays the guitar and piano! Cherie is looking forward to taking amazing care of our patients!

Born in Independence,Missouri,KendallmovedtoLewiston, Idaho when she was 13. On a school visit to North Idaho College, she quickly fell in love with Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls area. Her hobbies include hiking, boating, and swimming. She also enjoys watching andplayingcompetitivesports likehockey,volleyball,andfootball! Spending time with her family is her favorite way to pass the time.

Mark Becomes a Mentor

We have exciting news! Mark Bengtson, our fearless leader, has stepped into a new role of mentor and owner of the clinic. He is excited to devote time into building, mentoring, and coaching his team to provide the best treatment possible. Not only will this help to promote a strong team, it will enablemore patients to receive that extra special care that Mark is known for. An Experienced Mentor Mark’s new role will enable him to focus on developing and teaching our therapists the latest Postural Restoration tips and tricks and other manual therapy techniques to provide cutting-edge results. By being able to devote time to one- on-one coaching, more people will be able to benefit from Mark’s years of experience. In providing consistent care to all patients, we further our goals of helping as many people in our community as possible. A Team Coach As a dedicated team coach, Mark is able to oversee the team and work to recruit the best people in the area. In addition to recruiting, he’s able to refine the skills of the team and be available for support throughout the day. An Educator On a mission to help as many people in the community as possible become pain-free, Mark is able to dedicate more time to leading educational workshops on various subjects. These free events help educate the public about where pain

comes from and what natural treatment options are available. We couldn’t be happier to see the evolution of Mark’s role within Pinnacle Physical Therapy. The change has been very positive, and our patients are excited to have more access to Mark for questions, while the team is thrilled to have a great coach to lean on. We welcome you to the new experience at Pinnacle. We are confident you’ll enjoy the changes as much as we do.