Category : SOLPT News
Oakland/Santa Cruz Physical Therapy Office Illuminates Healing Power of Light Therapy
April 2nd, 2012We have seen incredible results from light therapy treatments on our patients and clients at SOL Performance Training and SOL Santa Cruz. Light therapy helps to speed up healing and treat stubborn chronic pain. Learn more about light therapy and the many different ways it can benefit you by clicking here. Sports + Orthopedic [...]
Please join us for SOL Performance Training Grand Opening, Friday, March 2nd from 4-7pm
February 14th, 2012We are excited to share this press release with you with information about our new fitness facility, SOL Performance Training. We hope to see you at our grand opening event on Friday, March 2nd, from 4-7pm. You will have the opportunity to meet SOL sponsored Olympic & professional athletes, learn about Functional Movement Screens, TRX Suspension Training, Kettlebell [...]
U.S. National Champion & World Medalist Alysia Montaño uses the TRX Suspension Trainer to strengthen her core @ SOL Performance Training
February 3rd, 2012Check out this video of U.S. national champion and world medalist Alysia Montaño using the TRX Suspension Trainer to strengthen her core and do some single leg squats with SOL’s Nina Patterson, MPT, OCS at SOL Performance Training. Alysia (born April 23, 1986) is an American middle distance runner. She is distinctive by wearing a [...]
SOL to do dynamic stretching with the Lake Merritt Joggers and Striders running group
December 9th, 2011Tomorrow, Saturday, December 10th, SOL’s Nina Patterson, MPT, OCS will be meeting with the Lake Merritt Joggers and Striders running group at SOL before their training run. She will be helping them warm-up with some dynamic stretching and answering any questions that they may have as they gear up for their training season. For more [...]
Dr. Tammara Moore is lead instructor for ART® Upper Extremity course in San Jose
November 17th, 2011SOL’s Dr. Tammara Moore, DPT, OCS, ART® will be teaching an Active Release Techniques® Upper Extremity course in San Jose today through the weekend. Active Release Techniques® (ART®) is a unique, patented soft tissue technique with more than 500 protocols that was developed by Dr. P Michael Leahy, DC, CCSP as a way to treat problems [...]
SOL sponsors the Sinkler Miller Medical Association’s 28th Annual Scholarship Dinner & Dance
November 11th, 2011SOL is proud to be a continued sponsor of the Sinkler Miller Medical Associations’s 28th Annual Scholarship Dinner and Dance. The organization is made up of more than 300 African American physicians whose main goal is to “provide and advocate for the highest quality of health care for all members of our community, especially the [...]
SOL is proud to be a community partner at Team in Training Kickoff Saturday, November 5th
November 4th, 2011SOL is proud to be a continued supporter and community partner of Team in Training (TNT). TNT athletes train for an event of their choosing while also raising crucial funds to help find a cure for cancer. Tomorrow, SOL’s Amanda Betz, DPT and Aileen Medina, ATC will be participating in Team in Training’s Spring Season Kickoff [...]
Attention Medicare patients: Act now to protect your physical therapy benefits & extend the Medicare therapy caps
November 2nd, 2011Help protect your physical therapy benefits and avoid the scheduled 19.5% cut in provider payments by telling your local U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senators to pass legislation to extend the Medicare therapy caps exceptions process beyond December 31, 2011. For more information and to make your voice heard, visit the APTA’s Patient Action Center by clicking here. [...]
Best of luck to our SOL ladies participating in the Merrell Down & Dirty Mud Run this Sunday, November 30th
October 28th, 2011Best of luck SOL’s Ada Jauregui, DPT, Aracelly Latino-Feliz, MPT, Jasmine Gittens, ATC, and Aileen Medina, ATC who will be participating in The Merrell Down and Dirty Mud Run this Sunday, November 30th at Folsom Lake State Recreation Area. They will get down and dirty as they take on the 5k with obstacles! Click here [...]
Direct access to physical therapy was shown to be associated with lower costs and fewer visits for patients
October 21st, 2011A new study recently published showed that direct access to physical therapy was associated with lower costs and fewer visits for patients as opposed to those who saw a physician first. The primary findings of the Health Services Research article showed that “Self-referred episodes had fewer PT visits (86 percent of physician-referred) and lower allowable amounts [...]
