Category: Blog
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Whiplash
Car accident and ICBC claim? You may know the pain. Symptoms of whiplash can include neck and upper back pain, jaw and earaches, muscular tension, loss of movement, and headaches. These symptoms can be incredibly debilitating and affect work, family life, sport, and sleep and should not go untreated. It’s often assumed that passive treatment, […]
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What To Do After A Car Accident
Car accidents are a traumatic event. If we’re lucky, we can walk away from the minor fender benders unscathed. Other times, even those low-speed bumps can leave us sore and aching. Add in the stress of calling ICBC and managing your insurance claim, managing the autobody damage, and dealing with the overall disruption to your […]
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Treating Tendinitis
Achilles tendinitis, tennis elbow, rotator cuff tendinitis, these tendon conditions are all common causes of pain that we see in our practice with much frequency. What many of us usually understand about tendinitis is that it is a condition involving inflammation of the tendon resulting from overuse and repetition. This usually leads us to respond […]
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Supporting Someone In Pain
We tend to think that pain only affects the individual feeling it, but it can be a difficult thing for the people around them to cope with as well. Educating and helping family or friends of someone with pain is incredibly important, however, as family support is shown to greatly increase the outcomes of pain […]
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Stres And Pain
Pain is not a response that’s simply caused by a physical lesion alone; it’s a complex phenomenon with massive psychosocial and neurochemical contributors as well. And just like how poor sleep can (indirectly) cause an increased sensitivity to pain, perhaps mental distress can as well. We all know negative stress as causing potentially negative effects on the body. Many […]
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Sorry, We Won’t Be Breaking Down Your Scar Tissue
One of the greatest myths of the manual therapy world is the belief of a physical treatment breaking down scar tissue or muscle fibers. That’s right, we said it. You’ve been told lies. Manual therapy cannot break down tissue. Consider This If pressure from a therapists’s hands were enough to break down any tissue, why doesn’t […]
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Managing A Pain Relapse (Is Like Quitting Smoking)
Across the board, regressions and relapses occur in every type of behaviour or lifestyle change, whether it’s recovery from pain, smoking, or weight loss. While the ideal is that we persevere through the road block or speed bump and continue on through the recovery process, often, hitting a point where pain returns, a cigarette is […]
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Osteoarthritis Myths And Facts
Osteoarthritis affects approximately 10% of all Canadians. It’s a condition characterized by the degeneration of cartilage within a joint and, at more-advanced stages, the addition of irregular bony growth in those spaces, often causing debilitating pain and loss of function. The diagnosis of OA can be a terrifying reality for people, as it’s immediately seen as […]
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3 Myths About Rehab
Thinking about some form of active rehabilitation plan but concerned that it may not be for you? Here are three common reasons why you may think so and why they shouldn’t stop you. 1) My x-rays showed that this is irreversibleX-rays and MRI results are very likely to reveal injuries and conditions that a doctor […]
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