Ken Dill

As a Physical Therapist for more than 27 yrs specializing in manual therapy, low back pain and sports orthopedics, Ken has been an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware and authored "Tennis Elbow...a Closer Look", "The Healthy Back School" and "Clinical Applications of Water Therapy". Currently a nationally ranked tennis player, high school tennis coach and certified USPTA tennis teaching pro, he has lectured at the International USPTA annual conference on topics like "The Top 10 Exercises for Elite Tennis Players" .He has also been the PT (and special assistant coach) for the World Team Tennis franchise Delaware Smash 2002-2008.

Yes!  In my opinion, dancing could very well be the best all-around exercise for the widest number of people.  Everyone can do it and all ages can benefit.  Dancing will benefit you in so many ways:  physiologically, psychologically, and spiritually.  Humans have been improving their health by dancing since, well, since there have been humans.  Let’s take a closer look at the documented health benefits of dancing, shall we.   Read more

Do you have a physiological margin for error? I know what you’re thinking: what the heck does that mean?! Should I have one? Should I try desperately to get it or get rid of it? Sorry if I’ve increased your anxiety level.  Allow me to explain. First, yes, you should have one, and then you should try to make it as big as you can!  Read more

Over the past 30 years, I have had the pleasure of helping tens of thousands of people successfully rehabilitate from a variety of injuries. A large percentage of these people were injured because of things they had done to themselves!  Read more

Why are we so fat? In America especially, but also in most of the more affluent western nations we have been getting bigger, heavier, and yes, FATTER! WHY? This phenomenon has been pondered for many decades and many many people have tried to answer this burning question. Even more have tried to capitalize financially on the lack of a definitive answer. The most common of these ‘answers’ have included in some way  too much fat, too much sugar, too much dairy, too many ‘carbs, too much meat, etc. A wide variety of those looking for “the answer” are trying to narrow it to something they can sell you in a pill or a diet or a super-food, even a psychoanalysis tape. Well here’s my two cents on the subject. We eat more (often way more) and move less (often way less) than previous generations. This statement is very true, but may be a tad over-simplified. So let explain in a little more detail.   Read more

A wise man once said, “If you don’t take care of your body…where else are you going to live?”  No, it wasn’t some comedian trying to get a laugh.  It was Robert Pirello, and wiser words have never been spoken. He knows from personal experience as a man who has been to the pinnacle of fitness, running multiple marathons.  He then faced severe osteoporosis with his body literally crumbling beneath him.  And now, through years of research and diligence, he has regained his efficiently functioning body and once again lives in a healthy and happy body.  Read more