SOL Physical Therapy Blog
SOL’s Athlete of the Month: Kettlebell Queen
March 22nd, 2013SOL Physical Therapy is proud to acknowledge Ginny Paton for her commitment and reaching her goals. Below is her testimonial and story about her body transformation and inspiration, through her work with Kettlebells. Ginny explained that, “Working with kettlebells enables me to do just about everything else. I am more fit now than I’ve been [...]
TRX Suspension Training – Testimonials
March 14th, 2013TRX Suspension Training, offered at SOL Performance Oakland and SOL Physical Therapy, gave Brianna Scott the best workouts of her life. For that, she thanks both the innovative TRX Suspension Training system as well as her TRX instructor, Ada Jauregui, PT. “Ada pushes me to accomplish things I never thought would be possible,” she said. [...]
Consequences of Excessive Sitting & Inactivity
March 13th, 2013Excessive sitting. Some call it a health concern. Others say it’s much more, going so far as to call it an epidemic. In an age when more people find themselves sitting for hours at a time at home, in transit and at work, researchers are finding sobering parallels between inactivity and an increased risk of health [...]
Kettlebell Training Works
March 6th, 2013Kettlebell workouts are all-encompassing, combining full-body movements with cardio exercise, strength training, and metabolic conditioning. This simple exercise regimen, coupled with top-notch instruction from the staff at SOL Performance Oakland and SOL Santa Cruz, offers clients a fun, high-intensity way to achieve both health and performance goals. Just ask Ginny Patton. When Ginny first set [...]
Upcoming Free Community Workshop: Care of Your Back
February 28th, 2013Please join us for SOL’s FREE community workshop on: How to Care for Your Back Presented by: Clarice Cummins, PT Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 7:00-8:00pm The workshop will be held at Sol Performance Training 3900 Piedmont Ave. Oakland In this interactive workshop, participants will learn the following: ● General anatomy of the lumbar spine and [...]
Full house for deadlifting workshop!
February 21st, 2013We had a full house for Dr. Bryan Ausinheiler’s workshop on Deadlifting last night! If you missed it, check out his blog and this handout from his workshop. He is a sharp mind who makes it interesting and easy to learn. Thanks for the inspiration Doc Deadlift! I can’t wait to start the barbell series! [...]
TRX Suspension Training: A Total Body Workout
February 15th, 2013TRX Suspension Training is resistance training without weights. Rather, the TRX workouts offered at SOL Physical Therapy and SOL Performance Training, each in Oakland, at SOL Physical Therapy in Walnut Creek, and at SOL in Santa Cruz, utilize a simple yet brilliant suspension system that allows users to work against their own body weight to [...]
SOL Walnut Creek “Miracle Workers”
February 6th, 2013SOL Physical Therapy in Walnut Creek is making great strides to rehabilitate our patients and return them to active and pain free lifestyles. We offer the same comprehensive and results-driven hands-on rehabilitation, injury prevention and performance programs that we do in Oakland. We get our patients the results they need and make their physical [...]
SOL Weekend Warriors
February 4th, 2013We LOVE our very own weekend warriors at SOL! At SOL Physical Therapy Oakland and SOL Performance Training Oakland, we not only aim to keep our patients active and injury free, we strive to keep ourselves in the game as well. Over the past two weekends a couple of our amazing staff members have accomplishments [...]
Functional Movement Screen: Decreasing Risk for Injury
January 31st, 2013Chris Taquino, DPT is a Physical Therapist with SOL Santa Cruz addresses how the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) can aide in the identification of movement dysfunctions and injury prevention. Santa Cruz County is full of active people. We’re commonly referred to as “Surf City”, or ranked as one of the healthiest places in the nation [...]
