As we welcome a New Year, many people resolve to reprioritize their life and to bring more balance into their days.  Keeping connected with our families by spending intentional time together is one way to bring balance into our lives.  Here are some creative ideas of how to spend time together! Instead of dinner and a movie, try brunch ...

So this past week I got to participate in the massage-a-thon and it was so much fun. Our class only covered the event for an hour, and in that hour we had around 10 clients split between 4 of us. In the short amount of time I only had 2 patients back to back for 30 minutes each and my hands were already crying for help. I began to realize just ...

As the semester has begun to progress I have started to feel as though a torch has been passed down by our peers in the 6th year of the curriculum. As a class we have already assigned committees and begun to plan events for the PT dance, massage-a-thon, senior farewell and even graduation. I am so excited for our upcoming events this year! We ...

Every Child Left Behind As a school-based therapist, I see many changes since I was in elementary school. It seems the only thing that has remained are the shelter drills, and  even they disappeared for a while! No Child Left Behind, which was enacted in 2001, is a standards-based education reform law. Success will be due to the high ...

A recent article on CNN suggested that the American obesity epidemic and global warming may have more in common than you'd think. According to the article, ''public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time.'' How do you do it? Easy. Walk or bike instead of drive. One scientist ...