Category: Health
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How We Experience Pain
We are all too familiar with the sensation of pain. Whether it’s a dull ache, burn, sting, zing, or discomfort, pain can be experienced all across our body. Sometimes pain is obvious, such as when we stub a toe or fall on an outstretched arm. Other pains can be confusing and last longer than what…
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Chicken or Egg Injury: Do Tight Muscles cause Back Stiffness?
On any normal day, patients come to the clinic with achy and stiff backs, necks, and joints. When I get them on the table, the muscles are all tensed up and parts of the back just don’t want to move… but which of those comes first? Does a joint get stiff or lock up and…
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What to do When Exercising Becomes Difficult
Exercise isn’t always going to be easy but it will be worth it. We really don’t need scientific studies to continue to prove that regular exercise and a decent diet makes us a lot healthier. Even when injury or arthritis leave us feeling achy or restricted, exercises are still the best way to prevent injury,…
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Bending until you break
Whether you had Barbie dolls or G.I. Joe action figures (they aren’t dolls… obviously), both were toys that move, bend, but eventually get bent to bits. This deformation is due to the physical ability of materials to deform under stress. An elastic deformation has a force applied and is able to return to its original…
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OUCH: How to Tell Where Your Pain is Coming From
Pain can be a frustrating experience, especially when it’s hard to pinpoint where and why it’s happening. This article is going to give a framework for what bones, muscles, and nerves typically feel like when they are the pain initiators. Starting with the most common aggravators – the muscles! Muscles can give different sensations depending…
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The Cure-all Exercises for Low Back Pain
There are a thousand ways to exercise the low back. There are bodyweight vs weighted exercises, yoga vs tai chi programs, plyometrics vs crossfit workouts. You name it, something is designed to work the core and low back. But knowing what programs to do when low back sprain or strain, spasm, or disc herniation occurs…
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Why Halloween is one of the “healthiest” holidays
On the night of trick & treaters, pumpkins, and ghouls, kids and adults are getting steps and “goblin” up candy. Whether you end up carrying a pillow case of candies or piggy-backing tuckered out tikes, let’s chat about why Halloween is one of the “healthier” holidays. I cannot speak for everyone, but as a kid,…
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Osteoarthritis & Morning Stiffness: Causes & Tips to Move Better
If you talk to anyone in their ‘upper years’, (I won’t give any specific numbers to preserve everyone’s dignity 😉) you’ll hear that the first half an hour in the morning is stiff, restricted, and painful. They have some arthritis even though they “_____”. You could fill in that blank space with anything from, “were…
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The sun gives me all the vitamin D I need right?
Why can’t you trust your daughter when it comes to your bone health? … Because vitamin D comes from the sun ☀️. The body has the ability to produce vitamin D and vitamin K so why as Canadians do we have vitamin D in our diet or take supplements? In the late fall, winter, and…
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The weight loss formula
News reports, magazine articles, and celebrities all have the BIG secret to weight loss or the BEST diet. All of this makes for great marketing and many sellable diet plans but the only weight control secret is found in a simple formula: Calories consumed – Calories burned = body weight gained or lost Here are…