Tips on Staying Motivated For Your Workouts
Have you found it tough to stay motivated to stick with your workout routine in the last year? With gyms and fitness classes closing, reopening and closing again, it’s been a struggle to stick with a routine and schedule. Here are a few tips to help get you motivated to get active again! SET SMALL […]
Prepare for Hiking Season
Hiking season is upon us! Every year, I have a few clients who get injured early in the season. It could be from ankle sprains, knee pain when hiking up or downhill or low back tightness to name a few. Doing some preconditioning work can greatly decrease your chances of having these issues. Focus on […]
Balance and Proprioception
Try standing on one leg, how many seconds can you hold yourself upright before you fall over? Now make this more challenging by turning your head side to side or moving your arms up and down. What about if you close your eyes? As physiotherapists we commonly assess our client’s balance regardless of age and activity […]
Embracing Play
There’s a lot of emphasis on the benefits of increased daily movement, and why people feel better when they move more. It’s true: our bodies are designed to move and being stuck in one or two positions for long periods of time is going to take a toll, even if you’re not slumped, slouched, or […]
A Dark and Stormy Run
I love running in the fall – the air is crisp, the streets and pathways are less crowded and I generally don’t have any imminent race goals, so training is more relaxed. For most of my running history, beautiful fall running transitioned into joyful snowy running. Moving to Vancouver definitely changed that pattern! The last […]
Your Symptom is the Tip of the Iceberg
I can still clearly remember a poster I saw as a child in a healthcare clinic. It was a beautiful poster of an iceberg where you could see the exposed tip and the much greater mass underneath the water surface. It read, “Your Symptom is the Tip of the Iceberg”. At the time, the true […]
Osteoarthritis and Exercise
Knee and hip osteoarthritis are very common conditions that affect ~10% of the population of British Columbia. There are a lot of misconceptions about the condition and its management. It is often inappropriately labeled as a “wear and tear” condition but it in fact involves a variety of processes. The biggest danger involves the idea […]
Live to Move
As life begins to work through the phases of returning to normal, we are all excited to get back into our physical routines and out of our sedentary home lives. In reflection over the past several months, it’s safe to say that everyone has felt the quarantine blues at some point or another. As I start to hear my clients recount their schedules or setups working from home and the aches and pains that have started to creep up in their bodies, I can’t help but think about how much movement or lack of movement can impact our health, our lives and our well being.
Why Am I Always Told to Work on My Core?!
As a therapist I love giving analogies, probably because this is the way I like to learn. Common sense, applied to other scenarios and easy to understand. The body is not so easy to understand but some of the basic principles are when you break it down. I am always asked about low back pain, […]