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10/02/2026
Starting with the best people!
Thank you APTA Michigan for the opportunity to share our concussion research and programming, along with ideas for collaboration and future research, at the 2026 Annual Conference and Research Day.
“When Sport Falls Short: Sport Related Concussion Clinical Pearls and Research Updates for Performers, Females + Students” allowed us to combine years of content development, research and identification of practice gaps into one lecture.
Thank you for all that attended—for your questions, kind words, and what I’m always most excited about—FUTURE COLLABORATIONS 💙
And always happy to present with my favorite PT, too! Follow PerformWell PLLC for more 💙🧠💙
📸 Abby Skallerud
10/01/2026
Sharing UM Department of Dance Anatomy + Physiology WEEK THREE: SAID Principle Part 2!
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Specificity goes beyond the muscle you’re training.
Your performance has a position, speed, force, environment, and repetition demand—and your training should account for those things, too.
Swipe for examples from figure skating, gymnastics, and cheer. 👀
Train for the performance you actually do.
Follow PerformWell PLLC for more performing arts content + training tips 💙
SAVE + SHARE 🎉✅
➡️ Performers feeling pinching in Port de Bras? Lifts? Bars or Handstands?
➡️ Students + professionals: practice, computer or desk work making you feel like you’re turning into a 🦐 or 🐢 with your posture?
Try this tape trick!!! It can be so helpful for postural cueing and correction—allowing for better tracking and less pinching + pain!
💡PRO TIP: make sure the placement of the tape doesn’t restrict overhead motion to the front or side. It may take a few attempts to get this placed on the shoulder correctly to allow for a feeling of the tape pulling you back to open up the front of the shoulder, but also still allow for full range of motion ✅
Thank you macey herbison for your demo! Hope this helps our UM Department of Dance and U-M Music | Theatre | Dance students keep their shoulders in check!
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09/22/2026
ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID…all the things we SAID…
Your training should prepare you for your performance. 👏
The SAID principle explains why specific training creates specific adaptations and why your conditioning should reflect the demands of your art.
Swipe to see what this can look like for dancers, musicians, and musical theatre performers.
Train for the task. Prepare for the performance.
Part 2 in que! Follow PerformWell PLLC for more performing arts content + training tips 💙
09/20/2026
Excited to open my clinic space and share this event with my 3rd floor mates Kerrytown Shops of Ann Arbor this Friday!
Friday 9/25/26 4-630pm
Open House featuring PerformWell PLLC The Pilates Barn & Wellness everyday wines and Q LTD 💙💙💙
If you are in the Ann Arbor area, come visit! Stay to meet and chat, learn a bit about performing arts PT, and get some food & refreshments! PLUS—I have some fabulous prize drawings too!!!
Message [email protected] if you can make it, and you can even pop by to say hi, too!
See you Friday!!!
Kerrytown District Association
09/16/2026
💙 Started this journey in 2009, with pro bono injury risk screening to the UM Department of Dance
💛 Expanded our services to the entirety of U-M Music | Theatre | Dance with the creation of the Wellness Program and its fabulous team
💙 Excited to continue the journey, screening and collaboration with our PerformWell team and everything that’s in the works for U-M Music | Theatre | Dance this year and in the near future!
Let the *Screening Season* begin! 💙💛💙💛
One of my favorite tricks to lull a tight trap into a peaceful slumber 😴💤💤💤
Also, just because they are tight, doesn’t mean they are STRONG. I see this all the time in my musicians and student performers! Many times the upper traps are weak, have poor endurance, or posture may be relying on them to help with support…whatever is going on, tight upper traps can contribute to:
✅ headaches
✅ decreased full rib expansion/breathing capacity
✅ shoulder impingement
✅ scapular asymmetry + dyskinesia
✅ and pain 😣
Thank you to The Pilates Barn & Wellness for the opportunity to chat all things *shoulder* with your amazing instructors! Can’t wait for next time!
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09/09/2026
FACT: Not all muscle fibers do the same job and performers need more than just endurance ✅
💪 Endurance helps you last.
⚡ Strength helps you control.
🔥 Power helps you explode.
Swipe to learn what your muscle fibers do and how to train them for performance.
💙Excited to share concepts from my U-M Music | Theatre | Dance fall semester course, teaching anatomy and physiology for UM Department of Dance 💛
Stay tuned for weekly class content drops and follow PerformWell PLLC for more performing arts science, wellness, and training tips!
The two best buddies to spotting + spinning = VOR (vestibular-ocular reflex) and and VMS (visual motion sensitivity) training 💙
✅ VOR keeps the eyes fixated on an object, or in this video your thumbs, which helps to replicate spotting seen in Dance turns.
✅ VMS training, replicates spinning seen in figure skating and Circus arts by keeping the eyes fixated on the thumbs while the entire body rotates.
➡️ Both techniques are regularly utilized in vestibular rehabilitation for post concussion or vestibular disorders, but can also be utilized to enhance performance and be part of everyday training.
Progressions can include increased speed, range of movement and addition of squishy/compliant surface for increased challenge!
Special thanks to Rachel Jolie , Pearl Rojas and Kelly Caroen for the amazing performing arts choreo and exercise technique 💙💙💙
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Thankful to help share this message and grateful to University of Michigan Concussion Center and Dr. David Millward and all of our colleagues with Michigan Athletics, U-M Music | Theatre | Dance, Services for Studebtd with Disabilities and U-M University Health + Counseling for supporting our students’ care and progression back to the classroom following concussion.
To all the students returning back to campus and starting class tomorrow—we are here to help you return as safely and quickly as possible! Please check out the U-M Concussion Center and see the amazing work being done on campus and abroad! 💙💛
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