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Laura Welch
Feb 103 min read
The Way We Should on Ourselves
We have a funny word in the English language that really gets us into a pickle sometimes. It's the word "should". This small but mighty...
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Laura Welch
Dec 29, 20244 min read
Why the name Inspire PT?
When I started my business, I literally had NO idea what I was doing. I Googled a lot and I read a book about why businesses fail. I...
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Laura Welch
Nov 11, 20243 min read
How Will I Feel After Receiving Manual Therapy?
Manual therapy is a dive into a wonderful world of mystery and excitement. I love being able to make changes with manual techniques and...
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Laura Welch
Oct 2, 20245 min read
Assess Your Body Mechanics: The Single Leg Mini Squat
Alignment is a tricky word in the rehab world. It is one of the many pendulums that swing to and fro', with some folks saying alignment,...
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Laura Welch
Aug 7, 20245 min read
Rotator Cuff Tear Research Review!
Degenerative rotator cuff tears are more common as we age and we may or may not have symptoms. Because of this, a common argument is, is...
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Laura Welch
Aug 4, 20243 min read
Fabulous Fascia
Recently, I spent a weekend at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Columbia, MD learning Fascial Manipulation Level 1 from Dr. Antonio Stecco...
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Laura Welch
Jun 20, 20243 min read
Consistency Breeds Progress
Progress can be a sneaky thing. You can keeping chipping and chipping and chipping away at something, feeling like you're about to bang...
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Laura Welch
Jun 6, 20245 min read
The Spine: Avoiding the Hinge
The spine is a pretty cool design. There are 7 vertebrae in the cervical spine, 12 in the thoracic spine (matching the ribs), 5...
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Laura Welch
May 24, 20243 min read
The Body's Yin and Yang
This symbol, this philosophy, has always been a grounding point for me. I'm sure I wasn't the only middle school kid that owned some...
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Laura Welch
May 15, 20243 min read
My Human Experience and Creating Less Choices
A year of postpartum has flown by and I don't understand how time has moved so slowly and so quickly all at once. I wanted to share with...
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Laura Welch
May 4, 20244 min read
The Whole Person Equation
A few weeks ago, my son and I stood near the finish line of the Monument 10K. Running events always do it for me; they touch me in a...
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Laura Welch
Apr 13, 20243 min read
Food and G.I. Upset
Does your belly hurt often? Do you have constipation or diarrhea? Do you have excess gas? Reflux? Bloating? Let's talk about it. Our...
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Laura Welch
Mar 28, 20244 min read
Test and Retest
We have had some "ah-ha" moments in the clinic lately when playing the game of test and retest so I wanted to share! When doing...
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Laura Welch
Mar 21, 20241 min read
Why is my neck tight all the time?!
Recently, I took a refresher virtual course on mobilizing the vagus nerves through the Institute of Physical Art (IPA). I last covered...
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Laura Welch
Feb 26, 20243 min read
Akkermansia: a fascinating bacteria in our gut
So, I may have gone down a little bit of a rabbit hole... It started like this: Many months ago, a colleague recommended a probiotic...
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Laura Welch
Feb 14, 20243 min read
The Deal with Vitamin D3
We have all heard of vitamin D3 and that it's important, right? If you're lucky, this is something your primary care provider checks...
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Laura Welch
Feb 8, 20244 min read
Channeling Your Curious Cat
I'm in Baltimore through the weekend for a Barral visceral course about the pelvis. I left Richmond yesterday at 5pm, a time that I...
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Laura Welch
Feb 2, 20242 min read
The Core and Our Adrenals
I am still following NPR's Body Electric, a series of short podcasts about how chronic use of technology is changing our bodies. I...
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Laura Welch
Feb 2, 20243 min read
Tracking HRV: Spying on the autonomic nervous system.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV)Â is the window into our autonomic nervous system. This means, we can look at the HRV value and get an idea...
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Laura Welch
Jan 10, 20243 min read
Breathing.
Thanks to James Nestor's book called Breath, more people are aware that the way we breathe is actually important. In short, breathing...
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Feb 103 min read
The Way We Should on Ourselves
We have a funny word in the English language that really gets us into a pickle sometimes. It's the word "should". This small but mighty...


Dec 29, 20244 min read
Why the name Inspire PT?
When I started my business, I literally had NO idea what I was doing. I Googled a lot and I read a book about why businesses fail. I...


Nov 11, 20243 min read
How Will I Feel After Receiving Manual Therapy?
Manual therapy is a dive into a wonderful world of mystery and excitement. I love being able to make changes with manual techniques and...
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