About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte I dealt with some knee pain in college and was told I had a meniscus tear. Not gonna lie... I was pretty freaked out. Every time I felt pain walking, running,

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte Not all hamstring pain means you have a hamstring issue. I had a super interesting evaluation with a new patient a couple weeks ago who originally came in for

Get back to CrossFit, running, and lifting pain free with performance physical therapy in Daniel Island, SC. Free consult with a Doctor of PT today.

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte “I have back pain. Do I need to strengthen my core to protect my back from injuries?” As a physical therapist I get this question a LOT (precisely 3 times just

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte Every year, without fail, I am slapped in the face by the same lesson. You’d think I would learn it by now, yet here we are. How This Started I always feel th

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte The comment that set me off I admit it - I fell for the rage bait last week. Back story: someone commented on one of our instagram posts about running: And I’m

If you are a dedicated runner in Charleston pounding pavement or logging miles, only to be sidelined by nagging pain that will not quit, you are not alone.

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte A patient came in recently after an intense weekend of pilates instructor training — neck pain, a lot of tension, and worried she'd done something wrong. If yo

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte Chances are, you've heard allll about grip strength. Grip strength is being called “the new vital sign” and is now being used as a biomarker for longevity. You

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte The biggest lie runners have ever been told is that if they have pain, they need to stretch. In my 6 years so far as a physical therapist, I can't tell you how

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte The number one cause of back pain isn't posture. It's not bad form. It's not sleeping in the wrong position. It's a self-fulfilling cycle - and most people hav

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the self-fulfilling cycle that keeps most people stuck in back pain for years - the pattern of avoidance that makes backs weaker, less capable, and more prone to injury over time. If you haven't read that yet, start there first: https://events.made2movept.com/for-your-bad-back This post is about what to actually do instead. Your spine was designed to move Our spines - with 33 vertebrae and hundreds of joints - were built to move. not

This is for the runner who has a “bad ankle” Every time they run, their ankle hurts and gets swollen for a couple days after. They may have chronic ankle instability or recurring ankle sprains — maybe even a couple of injuries years ago — so they've just accepted that "this is the way it's going to be." If that's you, here's what I need you to know: The swelling, the pain, the repeated injuries — those are signals. Helpful, important signals. That's your ankle telling you tha

About the Author: Hannah Breal, PT, DPT is the co-owner of Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston and Charlotte. She helps athletes and active adults rebuild strength, mobility, and confidence so they can move pain-free for life. Made 2 Move Physical Therapy – Charleston | Daniel Island | Mount Pleasant | Charlotte I had this quote by Charles Swindoll framed on my wall for years growing up: "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it." A teacher gave it

We had a very frustrated mom call us in March - her son is a 15-year-old soccer player who pulled his hamstring at a club tournament in the fall and was still struggling with pain months later. She was at a loss for what to do next. He had been to the school's athletic trainer, gone to physical therapy for 6 weeks, and he still barely played all year long. Every time he got back on the field, he'd get re-injured and have to take a break again. They did everything they were to