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Here’s your intro to foam rolling. Whether you’re looking for self-massage, stretching, core strengthening, myofascial release, Pilates or balance training, a foam roller is your ideal tool.

A majority of back pain sufferers choose this lumbar support to improve sitting posture and help relieve low back pain. Treat your own back pain with a back support and the McKenzie Method.

Relieve your sore, tight muscles and release soft-tissue restrictions using these simple self-massage techniques on the OPTP PRO-ROLLER™. Integrate foam rolling into your workout routine: rolling beforehand, to release muscle tension, and afterward, to decrease post-exercise soreness.

Step up your Pilates workout with an OPTP PRO-ROLLER™ and these challenging Pilates movements. Using a soft foam roller can increase the effect on your core with its less-stable surface.

Back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and knee pain—Robin McKenzie's self-treatment system can help your treat your own pain without drugs or surgery.

See how Danny used the McKenzie Method to treat his own neck pain without spinal surgery. Robin McKenzie's self-treatment system can relieve your chronic neck pain.

Intended to train retailers on how to select proper McKenzie products for patients and customers, this video covers the breadth of the Treat Your Own series of books and McKenzie lumbar rolls and postural supports.

Designed for people who can't tolerate larger back support, the SlimLine is ideal for people who are elderly or petite. Find your perfect lumbar support and help relieve back pain.

Learn how to select the proper Original McKenzie® Lumbar Roll for use in the car.

This portable back support helps relieve low back pain when traveling. Simply open the valve and the lumbar cushion inflates itself.

Adriaan Louw uses the "Why You Hurt: Therapeutic Neuroscience Education System" to teach a chronic pain patient about their extra-sensitive nervous system.

Yousef Ghandour, PT, demonstrates how mobilization belts enhance the specificity and duration of joint mobilization of the extremities and spine by supporting limbs, stabilizing body parts, creating fulcrum points, permitting multi-directional techniques and more.

Learn how to relieve tension in the neck and head using the CranioCradle. You can melt away the day’s stress by simply relaxing with the CranioCradle. CranioCradle available at OPTP.com. Three-step system: Stillness Position, Base Position, Rock and Cradle.

Relieve stress in the neck while also targeting low back pain. Placing a CranioCradle at your low back while also using one to ease neck tension offers twice the therapeutic benefit. CranioCradle available at OPTP.com.

Target and release trigger points while you relax using CranioCradle, available from OPTP.com. The foam construction provides the perfect amount of resistance to work out knots and remove soft tissue restrictions.

What can TRX bodyweight suspension training do for you? Discover what so many pro athletes and fitness professionals already know.

Explore the endless possibilities of the Rotational Trainer in this demo of exercises, movements, positions and tool combinations for shoulder stabilization, core exercise and more.

See how the MyoTool can perform pump massage or Active Release Technique to self-treat calf muscle strains and Achilles tendon strains.

Learn how patients can self-treat a hamstring strain using the MyoTool to perform pump massage or Active Release Technique.

Self-mobilization of the lumbar spine is performed using the MyoTool to target low back pain and sciatica.

Patient performs self-mobilization of the cervical spine—and sustained natural apophyseal glides (SNAGs)—using the MyoTool to gain flexion and extension range of motion.

Learn how patients can unload their cervical spine by performing cervical traction with the MyoTool.

Learn to perform squats using the Performance Wedges, which can help people with tight ankles to gain the benefits of doing squats - including strengthening the quads, hamstrings and calves.

Help relieve tight calf muscles and leg pain with a simple stretch using the PRO-SLANT.

Help promote flexibility, mobility, and range of motion with this simple chest stretch using the Booyah Stik.

Activate deep core muscles, like the pelvic floor, to help improve core strength and stability with the Pelvic Rocker™ Core Trainer.

Physical Therapist Sarah Haag, PT, DPT, the author of Understanding and Treating Incontinence, answers common questions about urinary incontinence.

Physical Therapist Sarah Haag, PT, DPT, answers questions about why urinary incontinence happens and what treatment options are available. Questions include: Did I do something to cause my urinary incontinence? Is there something seriously wrong? Will my urinary incontinence get worse as I age? Can this get better?

5 simple foam rolling exercises to relieve lower body muscle tightness

Lauren Roxburgh introduces her collection of fitness and wellness products designed for exercises to help achieve alignment and balance throughout the body and to help relieve pain and tight muscles.

Lauren Roxburgh introduces one of her favorite balance and self-massage products, which can be used on the head, neck, back, arms, legs and feet to help calm the nervous system and promote blood flow.

Lauren Roxburgh introduces her new self-massage product designed to help relieve muscle pain, improve posture and provide relief from a sore neck, headaches, lower back pain, and more.

Lauren Roxburgh shares her favorite moves to help release tightness in the body and reduce bloating while helping you awaken the pelvic floor and reconnect to your deep core using the Body Sphere. These self-massage moves include: • Seated spine circles • Spine arches • Lower belly massage • Sacral massage • Relaxing chest openers

Lauren Roxburgh shares her favorite self-massage moves for relaxing sore shoulders, relieving tightness in the lower back, rebalancing the sacrum, loosening tight hips and relaxing tired feet.

Personal Trainer Luis Leonardo shares a full-body workout you can do in just 20 minutes. This core workout includes exercises to strengthen leg muscles and improve upper body strength using the Soft Movement Ball from OPTP.

Personal Trainer Luis Leonardo shares a simple 20-minute workout you can do anywhere. Develop flexibility and mobility with these exercises that help challenge the core and work the upper body using the Performance Block from OPTP.

Wobblesmart was developed by physical therapists to improve balance, stability, core strength and agility.

This self-massage tool features a comfortable, pointed top to help release trigger points in hard-to-reach places.

Instructional video on how to use the Hanging Handles by Bob and Brad.

Instructional video on how to use the Hanging Handles by Bob and Brad.

Instructional video on how to use the Hanging Handles by Bob and Brad.

Instructional video on how to use the Hanging Handles by Bob and Brad.

These release techniques are great for throwing athletes, over head athletes, or anyone suffering from tightness around the shoulders, thoracic spine or neck.

This pre-cardio warmup checks all the boxes to get you running, cycling, swimming, or doing any other form of cardio more efficiently and effectively. Just grab your foam roller and follow along.

These exercises will help patients, clients and general users develop more strength, balance and confidence while walking.

Make marching and gait exercises more functional with the unique CobbleFoam Uneven Surface Balance Trainer.

Improve balance and stability using these squat variations.

Create hip stability and strength while improving balance.

Physical Therapists and Physiotherapists prefer the SI-LOC® over other back braces and SI support belts because it stays in place. Patients prefer the comfort of the SI-LOC’s lightweight, breathable fabric and non-bulky design that conceals easily under clothes.

Keeping the core strong throughout pregnancy can help minimize back pain, improve and maintain posture, and even make labor and delivery a bit less intense (no promises on this last one, though!).

If you are a runner, than you know how important it is to stay strong and stable throughout the entire body to avoid getting injured, improve endurance and prevent poor running posture habits from developing.

Sometimes we want to combine strength training with mobility training for the most time efficient exercises possible. If you are into floor based core exercise modalities like Pilates or Yoga, you are going to love the exercises shown here!

If you do lots of sitting day to day and feel your body progressively getting tighter, these full-body mobility exercises are for you! Using our wonderful PRO-ROLLER Soft, we show how to open up the entire kinetic chain with just three simple drills.

Lots of mommas out there look to regain core strength following a pregnancy. With little time and many limitations regarding exercise, this can be very challenging. Luckily, we have the perfect tool for a safe, efficient and incredibly effective core workout!

For this week's Summer of Self-Care video, we are focusing on the ankles and calves. Using our AXIS foam roller and PRO-PODS release and stabilization tools, we show three excellent exercises for relieving tightness in the ankles and calves.

Meet the Booyah Stik by Bob and Brad, your total-body stretching, strength and mobility partner. Designed to improve health and wellness in a variety of ways, the Booyah Stik is a versatile tool for people of all ages and abilities.

Looking to create more strength and stability across the hips? These safe and incredibly effective exercises will help the glutes, hamstrings and low back get stronger and more stable. These movements will also help ease low back pain, and are great alternative leg exercises for those who experience knee pain while exercising.

If you are into Pilates, Yoga or any other mind/body exercise modality, you are going to love these exercises!

These advanced single leg thigh stretches will provide length and strength in the hamstrings and quadriceps muscle groups.

In this video, Physical Therapist Nicole Mikulski, PT, DPT, OMPT provides five simple low back strength and stability exercises out of the book, "Lumbar Spinal Stabilization" written by Dr. Donald R. Murphy.

These release techniques for the cervical area will help ease tension in the suboccipital muscles and upper trap region to provide relief of tension headaches, sore shoulders, stiff neck, and sore upper back.

These release techniques for the cervical area will help ease tension in the suboccipital muscles and upper trap region to provide relief of tension headaches, sore shoulders, stiff neck, and sore upper back.

OPTP's Thoracic Lumbar Back Support™ is the complete sitting support, providing support to your entire back and promoting proper sitting posture wherever you sit.

Try these release techniques to ease tension in the inner thighs.

Try these release techniques to ease tension in the IT Band.

Try these unique functional balance exercises.

Try these release techniques to ease tension in the front of the thighs.

Improve balance with these simple standing exercises.

Challenge lower body strength and stability with these two functional training exercises.

Try these release techniques to ease tension in the lats and ribcage area.

Try these release techniques to ease tension in the hips/glutes.

Try this unique spin on the traditional downward dog yoga pose.

Try these suboccipital release techniques to help ease tension headaches and neck pain.

These bridge exercises will help build strength and stability in the hips and low back.

Try these simple and effective release techniques if you are looking to relieve tightness in the chest, ribs, lats or sternum.

Physical Therapist, Nicole Mikulski, demonstrates exercises you can do with your patients to improve cervical spine stability.

According to Bob and Brad this is the single best exercise for weak, painful knees.

Tennis elbow? Golfer's Elbow? Do you sit at a desk for hours every day and end your workday with sore forearms, wrists or elbows?

Using Pain Neuroscience Education in treating people with acute and chronic pain is becoming more and more popular amongst clinicians, and for good reason. Studies show that Pain Neuroscience Education, in many cases, is more effective than prescription drugs at helping people overcome pain.

In this video, Bob and Brad provide 5 excellent suggestions for lessening back pain. Check out all the products mentioned in this video here.

In this video, Bob and Brad provide 3 excellent suggestions for lessening knee pain.

If you sit for prolonged periods throughout the day, then you have likely experienced some form of tightness or soreness in the back and/or hips.

These low back strength exercises are great for nearly everyone. Just grab your stability ball and get to it!

This release technique for the plantar fascia can help alleviate the foot pain and foot tightness that is associated with Plantar Fasciitis.

Many individuals with tightness in the shoulders, lower neck and mid/upper back can benefit from the release techniques in this video. These release techniques for the scapular region will help free up mobility in the thoracic spine and shoulders.

If you suffer from elbow pain, forearm pain or wrist pain, try these release exercises. These simple release techniques are designed to relieve pain commonly associated with lateral epicondylitis and other forms of inflammation due to overuse or injury.

Create strength across the foot-ankle complex. Relieve foot tightness associated with plantar fasciitis and general aches and pains. Develop better balance and body awareness.

The thoracic paraspinal muscles are often referred to as the erector spinae. This area is comprised of three groups of muscles:

In this video, SMARTROLLER® inventor Stacy Barrows, PT, DPT, discusses the unique benefits one can obtain by integrating the SMARTROLLER into mindfulness and movement routines.

Try these fall prevention exercises to develop better balance and body awareness along with stronger legs and more mobility.

Here is our carefully selected list of top fitness tools for 2022.

Created by a Doctor of Physical Therapy with decades of experience working with shoulder injuries, the PRO Shoulder Support™ cradles the shoulder joint in a healthy position. By elevating and decompressing the shoulder joint it counteracts gravity and the weight of the arm, which helps decrease pain and soreness. By positioning your arm away from your body, it also allows greater blood flow to the rotator cuff muscles, which helps speed recovery.

Persistent pain is a global problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Physical therapists are in the ideal position to help assess and treat people experiencing pain, especially persistent pain, and this book shows how.

Tightness and tension in the hips is a very common problem amongst adults. In this video, Derek Mikulski, BS, CSCS, CPT highlights four stretches using the Original Stretch Out Strap that will help alleviate tension and improve mobility across this region of the body.

Pain and tension in the hands, wrists and/or forearms is often linked to tightness in the surrounding muscle tissue. In this video, Derek Mikulski, BS, CSCS, CPT highlights a number of release techniques that can assist with general tightness and tension as well as more specific conditions such as lateral epicondylitis.

In this video, Derek Mikulski, BS, CSCS, CPT, demonstrates simple exercises using the Wobblesmart wobble board that can help your patients and clients improve balance and coordination.

This Q&A with Dr. Yoav Suprun aims to provide individuals with answers to some of the most commonly asked questions surrounding neck and back pain.

Using two different myofascial release balls, in this video we highlight two ways to release and two ways to strengthen the major muscles of the hips.

The psoas major is a crucial core muscle. When this muscle is weak, tight or under active, we can experience things like low back pain, tight quadriceps and even low back lordosis.

In this video are four exercises for core strength and stability using a foam roller. Two of these exercises are focused on the stability of the spine and pelvis, and the two other movements are more strength based.

Created by a Doctor of Physical Therapy with decades of experience working with shoulder injuries, the PRO Shoulder Support™ cradles the shoulder joint in a healthy position. By elevating and decompressing the shoulder joint it counteracts gravity and the weight of the arm, which helps decrease pain and soreness. By positioning your arm away from your body, it also allows greater blood flow to the rotator cuff muscles, which helps speed recovery.

For many women, pregnancy and postpartum can make exercise selection challenging. Here are three safe core exercise options with the unique Pelvic Rocker Core Trainer.

Side planks are wonderful for lateral stability and strength, as well as helping to decrease the potential of low back pain. These side plank variations are sure to add new challenges and benefits to your core training routine!

Undoubtedly, pregnancy will cause a new distribution of weight across the body. For many women, this can result in postural pains and strains.

In this video, we highlight three books that are filled with information about relieving and understanding pain.

In this video, Bob & Brad highlight some excellent exercises for keeping the knees strong and healthy.

Here, Dr. Deb Riczo answers some of the most common questions about back pain and pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy and postpartum.

A tight glute medius can often be involved in hip pain, back pain and pain traveling down the lateral aspect of the leg. Here are some techniques for releasing a tight glute medius muscle.

These professional-quality foam rollers feature a highly durable EVA foam construction and super soft density for the gentlest, most forgiving compression.

The moderate density makes the Silver AXIS® Roller firm enough for myofascial release to aid in workout recovery, yet soft enough to comfortably perform exercises for improved balance, stability, flexibility and function. This foam roller is ideal for those just beginning foam rolling, and experienced athletes alike.

Improve thoracic mobility and shoulder mobility with the exercises shown here. You will need a foam roller to complete these exercises. These movements will help improve range of motion in the upper back and shoulders.

The Original Stretch Out Strap by OPTP delivers the benefits of assisted stretching without a partner. This durable, woven stretching strap features multiple loops that permit deep, gradual stretching of major muscle groups with greater safety, control and effectiveness than is possible unaided.

Shop balance, fitness, therapy and self-care tools for everyone on your holiday list!

Shop Pilates, fitness, therapy and self-care tools for everyone on your holiday list!

Shop myofascial release, fitness, therapy and self-care tools for everyone on your holiday list!

Shop Pilates, fitness, therapy and self-care tools for everyone on your holiday list!

Shop fitness, therapy and self-care tools for everyone on your holiday list!

Shop fitness, therapy and self-care tools for everyone on your holiday list!

Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine in Physical Therapy provides an evidence-based approach to moving beyond traditional movement interventions alone, by incorporating a comprehensive integrative and lifestyle medicine approach that addresses whole-person health for the successful treatment of pain and illness, and the promotion of health for all populations.

Stacy Barrows’ SMARTROLLER Sits offer portable and discreet cushion when sitting on any hard surface, such as office chairs, bleachers, benches, the ground, etc. Simply place the Sits cushions under your sits bones. As kinesthetic learning tools, you’ll notice results in minutes as you receive feedback to balance your weight onto your sits bones instead of slumping.

In this video, SMARTROLLER creator Stacy Barrows, PT, DPT, GCFP, NCPT, answers some of the most common questions surrounding her unique line of somatic education and movement tools.