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Michelle Criss

Michelle Criss

Michelle "Missy" Criss, PT, DPT, PhD is a board-certified geriatric clinical specialist and Associate Professor in Chatham University's Doctor of Physical Therapy program in Pittsburgh.

Oct 1, 2026

20:32
So how would you suggest a person aging, so one of the listeners or maybe one of their loved ones, starts this conversation
20:42
with their health care provider? I would just say, hey, if this is your primary care provider, I am happy.
20:51
middle-aged or whatever age you feel like you need to start looking at things.
20:56
There's pretty good data that midlife, which some people could say is in the 40s, as women enter menopause, we notice a lot of changes very quickly.
21:06
So I think somewhere in that range of mid-40s to mid-50s, having a conversation of I want to be doing well in the future, what are the things I could be doing? Now, I love my primary care provider, but as a PT, they often defer to me as to what I think people should do.
21:26
So I think if you are like, I don't exercise a lot, I'd like to get some advice, you could do that from a physical therapist.
21:35
You could ask to get a baseline assessment on your mobility.

5 MINS LATER

26:39
What are your thoughts if everybody over the age 55, let's say, had an annual mobility assessment? How do you think aging would look over this next generation?

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