April 2020 Patient Digital Newsletter: Check Out What’s Happening This Month At Pinnacle Physical Therapy

Get excited for Summer + Road to Recovery + Mindful Quarantine Movements + Spring Giveaway and more!

Our Pinnacle PT Team is excited for Summer 2020 and we hope you are too. In honor of quarantines being lifted and warm weather approaching, we are holding a free event for all of our cherished past patients, family, and friends. We hope you will join us for food, drinks, and the chance to meet with one of our passionate movement expert therapists for free. Take this opportunity to celebrate our active outdoor season and discuss what is causing your pain, limiting your activity and holding you back for a healthier 2020. You’ll learn how Pinnacle Physical Therapy can help you achieve your fitness and activity goals. (CTA, website link) We look forward to seeing you there!

Date and Time to be Announced!

Make Your Back Last For Life: Episode #1

Sun, Mar 15

Back Pain Playing Golf? Check This Out.

Golf is now as bad for participants as a CONTACT sport say experts probing an epidemic of bad backs among professionals

  • Focus on strength over style making spinal injuries common among golf players

  • More

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Kelly’s Road to Recovery

“As a college athlete I have seen many physical therapists and athletic trainers over the years and spent a lot of time rehabbing different sports related injuries. I can say without hesitation that the team of physical therapists I got to work with (Stephanie, Torin, and Mark) at Pinnacle are the best I’ve ever encountered. I have been restricted on activities due to an old nagging knee injury. I sadly accepted that after years of wear and tear, on top of a couple knee surgeries, my knee would forever limit my activity and that the pain and swelling was just something I had to live with day in and day out. After an especially bad flare up where I was having trouble pushing my kids in their stroller or walking down a slight hill, I was referred to Pinnacle. I was feeling pretty defeated and desperate, and felt I had nothing to lose.

After rehabbing my knee with the team at Pinnacle and working from the ground up, I can walk down stairs pain free for the first time in over ten years. I never thought that would be possible!! All this time I spent thinking I had to deal with aches and pains and really all I needed was this wonderful team. Man, I wish I found these guys earlier. I know it sounds cheesy, but they have changed my life and I couldn’t be more grateful.

Coaching me through this injury and getting me healthy did more for me than I can explain. I have renewed hope that I will be able to live the active lifestyle I want and that hope is something I’d lost over the years. I can’t thank their team enough for their incredible knowledge and expertise. Now I can finally get back to doing the things I love!” -K.H.

Mindful Monthly Movement

Hamstrings feeling tight? Maybe stretching is not the answer?

Our patients and athletes don’t do a lot of hamstring stretching.


Many of them already live in excessive anterior pelvic tilt, causing a lengthening and tightness of the hamstrings.  For that reason, we don’t encourage aggressive static hamstring stretching as it destabilizes your pelvis and results in lower back pain and sacro-iliac joint instability. 

Instead, we turn on the hamstrings and strengthen them for:

  • Increased pelvic control and stability

  • Reducing that feeling of “tightness”

  • Co-activating with the abdominals for spinal stabilization

  • Improving the hamstring length-tension relationship

  • Relaxing your lower back muscles

  • Inhibition and relaxation of  your IT Bands

  • Eliminating lower back pain

Try this hamstring strengthening exercise from our team of Lower Back Pain specialists. Click on the image below to check it out.

Who Do You Know We Can Help? Refer a Friend To Us for Physical Therapy and Win Big!

If you have someone in mind that you think we could help, let us know! Call us at 208.777.4242 or click here: https://pinnaclephysicaltherapy.org/refer-a-friend or on the button below from our website.