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Lena Thieme, PT Teaches and Dances in Brazil
posted on: Feb 3rd, 2020 category:art, dance, community, newsLena Thieme, a member of West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic’s dance rehabilitation team, has recently returned from Brazil where she was teaching, performing, and helping dancers dance more freely. While there, she was honored as a princess of Lambada in a ceremony celebrating influential women of Lambada. She also performed a contemporary solo depicting Yemanja, […]
read moreWPPTC’s Dance Physical Therapist Visits Buenos Aires
posted on: Jun 2nd, 2019 category:dance, rehabilitation, community, newsThis April, I was in one of my favorite cities, Buenos Aires, Argentina, to participate in the Mega Zouk Congress. Buenos Aires has one of the largest and most active communities of the dance Zouk Lambada in the world. There I taught this dance, as well as ballet and injury prevention for lambada. I was […]
read moreWPPTC Physical Therapist Dances and Teaches in Brazil
posted on: Mar 26th, 2019 category:dance, newsby M. Lena Thieme, PT, MPT Lambada is a Brazilian social partner dance that involves circular head and body movements, turns and multiple spins, cambré or back bending, and sometimes deep-knee bending. One can imagine that there may be a lot of neck, back, and ankle injuries as it requires a lot of the musculoskeletal […]
read moreWe’ve Expanded!
posted on: Sep 14th, 2013 category:dance, press, newsThanks to the confidence that our patients and the medical community have in us, we’ve been able to double the size of our clinic! The new upstairs provides expanded gym space and larger dance floor with a professional marley floor, barre, and mirrors.
read moreWPPTC work with dancers is featured in the February issue of Goodness Magazine.
posted on: Feb 3rd, 2009 category:Kathi McCoy, dance, newsWPPTC work with dancers is featured in the February issue of Goodness Magazine. On the cover Kathi McCoy, founder and co-owner of WPPTC, is pictured with OBT principal dancer Gavin Larsen. Check out the article entitled A Different Kind of TLC.
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