Daily movement, any movement, is the key to your short-term and long-term health. You know this intuitively. When you rise, ever so slowly, from your chair and shuffle around the house after sitting around all day, your joints are cranky and your muscles feel weak.

October is National Physical Therapy Month. As president of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), it gives me great pride to represent our profession and our 100,000-member physical therapists (PTs), physical therapist assistants (PTAs) and students.