 Hi, my name is Becky Oster. I'm here at Oster Higgins Physical Therapy, which is located inside the fitness factory, also known as Foreigner's Fitness, on 55 Warren Avenue. And we're here to tell you a little bit about our businesses that we run. This is my partner, Dave Higgins. Hi. So, I just wanted to start talking about what we typically see here in the fall in Maine. People end up with repetitive use injuries, such as rate gain or shoveling. And one of the things that we tend to do, as far as part of our treatment, is teach people how to do these things safely, effectively, and to avoid a lot of these repetitive use injuries. A lot of first timers come in and people who've been working out for years and they're working out with poor body mechanics or improper body mechanics. So what we notice is they're raking leaves, they're shoveling snow, and then they're coming in here and reinforcing injuries with poor body mechanics during their exercise. So one of the things that we typically do as part of our treatment plan is we try and correct any abnormalities in movement. We try and correct positions in mechanics while working on any of the number of pieces of equipment here at the gym. It's really important to have one-on-one care when you're working with a physical therapist so that they're paying attention to what you're doing. They're paying attention to your body mechanics and the technique. What we see, as I mentioned before, is people come in and they do the exercises wrong. What we do upon discharge is if somebody's interested in a gym membership, we give them an entire program so that they have a set of exercises that they can do for general fitness or specifically if they're interested in having something honed towards an activity that they do or a sport they play, and we make sure that they work on stabilizer muscles, general fitness, cardio, general strength, and not just coming in here and not having a plan and not having any goals. One of the exercises we typically see people doing improperly or incorrectly here at the gym is the lat pull. A lot of times you'll see people using the wrong muscles such as their low back or their shoulder musculature in order to produce the motion and also we'll end up seeing a lot of improper positions such as internally rotated shoulders as well as an overextended spine during the exercise. And the proper way to do that is to stabilize the spine and try and produce a nice clean slow motion all the way through full range of motion using your mid-back musculature as well as your lats. A lot of the reasons people do the wrong form is because the weights are too heavy. Common misconception is that heavier weights are better. We make the weight slider, people actually make quicker gains because they can use the proper form and awesome body mechanics. An important piece is to consider consulting a physical therapist or a personal trainer such as we have here at the gym before embarking on a brand new fitness adventure and just make sure that you know exactly what you're doing before you do it the wrong way and end up with an injury.