Many of you may not know that our Medical Director, Jeffrey P. Haggquist, DO, is an avid backcountry mountain biker, and former Masters swimmer and tri-athlete.

Dr. Haggquist is an osteopathic physician and nationally-recognized musculoskeletal specialist. He was recently featured as a CBS Fantasy Football Injury Report physician on 106.7 The FAN.

Dr. Haggquist has perspective on what it means to be an athlete. He offers a treatment plan to help you solve physical issues and stay active.

He champions Active Isolated Stretching and Strengthening (AIS), a flexibility and strength training program that uses focused, assisted exercises so that you perform better and recover faster.

Many athletes come to QuistMD to treat acute sports injuries including soccer, cycling, running, tennis, golf, skiing and rowing. QuistMD combines soft tissue manual therapy to relieve the pain, with flexibility and strength training to regain range of motion and re-connect the body with the brain.

Look for our Sporty Doc palm card in bike shops and running stores.

Watch for our Walk the Walk web article series.

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That goes for the work day too. Lower back pain, the most common musculoskeletal condition, costs $50 billion a year, according to the journal NYU Physician. Most lower back pain is not caused by an injury, but by imbalance and weakness from lack of use. If we sit at our computers all day, we are contributing to this problem. In fact, sitting has been shown to be as bad as smoking! Instead, we need to get up every 20-30 minutes, walk around, even do exercises at your desk. Jeffrey P. Haggquist, Medical Director of QuistMD in Washington, DC, offers this audio health tip on desk exercises.

However, “it’s possible to do the wrong exercises and make things worse,” according to physician Wayne Stokes, who was interviewed for NYU Physician. Dr. Haggquist agrees. Bulking up with weights doesn’t make you fit and flexible for a longer life. To be most useful, exercise needs to be strategic. Identifying your current physical condition, whether it’s top shape, recovering from an injury or somewhere in between, is the key to tailoring your exercise for the benefits you seek. It is possible to spend less time and get more.

Concussions

Heading the ball too frequently in soccer may cause the same kind of brain damage seen in football. This was shown in data from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Children are especially vulnerable. Most affected are areas of the brain responsible for executive functions like attention, memory, and planning, as well as visual and spatial reasoning. This may change the game, but it’s time to reconsider headers in children’s soccer.

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• Hockey Brawler Paid Price, with Brain Trauma (New York Times, March 2011)
• Junior Ice Hockey Study Uncovers Alarming Concussion Rates (Science Daily, November 2010)

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We are seeking a full-time physical therapist with a strong manual background to be part of our hands-on team.

If you are motivated to deliver personalized one-on-one therapy to a diverse patient population, this is the career move for you!

The physical therapist will be responsible for administering a treatment program with specific goals; assessing, evaluating and charting progress; and educating patients on appropriate home exercises.

Successful candidates will possess the ability to:

• Demonstrate strong manual skills;
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills;
• Work independently and effectively one-on-one with patients;
• Serve as a key member of an integrated therapeutic team that includes an osteopathic physiatrist, personal trainers, pedorthotists, neuromuscular massage therapists, and other staff therapists; and
• Master to proficiency the clinic’s core flexibility and strength technique, Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) (on-the-job training available if no previous experience with AIS).

Benefits of the position include:

• Excellent work environment with lots of sunlight;
• Competitive pay rates with starting salary $50,000-$90,000;
• Suitable patient volume with 6-8 patients per day;
• High-quality weekly in-house training;
• Medical, health, dental insurance options, with supplemental options;
• Direct deposit;
• Educational opportunities;
• Electronic medical record in spring 2013;
• Numerous possibilities for professional development in a growing office;
• Instructional and in-service options;
• Signing bonus;
• Opportunity to expand with the business.

Contact info@quistmd.com.

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