Do you find yourself blaming your sedentary desk job or your age for why you’re in pain? If so, this episode is for you!
Dr. Nicole Turnbow is a physical therapist who founded Body in Motion, a comprehensive physical therapy practice in Bloomfield, CT (and Avon, CT coming soon!!), and is on a mission to encourage others to move and work around their pain to continue to get stronger and improve mobility.
In this episode, Steph and Nicole discuss the importance of keeping your body in motion and how being in the same position for extended periods of time causes a lack of mobility which impacts your ability to move and causes more complications down the road.
1:30 – Dr. Nicole Turnbow’s education and background
5:33 – who is entrepreneurship for?
8:26 – Nicole’s mission with “Body in Motion”
10:40 – is sitting really that bad?
12:28 – complications of immobility
13:43 – navigating the excuse “I’m just getting old”
15:23 – your pain may be a result of your lack of exercise
17:05 – how to continue to move without causing pain and losing strength + mobility
17:24 – what a session at Body in Motion looks like
18:43 – dry needling modality
20:07 – short term vs long term relief
21:10 – more modalities used in a physical therapy session at BIM
22:22 – soft tissue mobilization vs joint mobilization
24:00 – how Body in Motion supports and holds you accountable in your exercises at home
28:28 – which is more beneficial: warming up or cooling down/stretching
30:54 – top three injuries treated at BIM
38:09 – when to stretch and when to strengthen
43:55 – top three ailments treated at BIM
48:45 – don’t “check out” while strength training
50:08 – Dr. Nicole’s top takeaway from this episode

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