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How to Improve Your Spinal Coordination
Lasting Results With Coordination Our goal is to not only quickly relieve your pain, but to make sure your spine stays healthy for the long run. One of the most important features of a healthy spine is the ability to coordinate your muscles. This provides long-term...
Improve Your Spinal Strength via Physiotherapy
Enhance Your Spine’s Strength The spine has very long muscles that run vertically to hold you upright during the day. In addition, there are many small muscles deep within the spine that fine-tune the movements of each segment. When you sit for prolonged periods in...
Improve Your Spine’s Stability with Physiotherapy
Spinal instability is a big problem for many people. The spine has very complex movements, with hundreds of muscle groups, over 48 joints, and thousands of nerves. This requires a complicated ballet of precision balance and movement. With injury, or if you have a...
How Physiotherapy Can Improve Your Flexibility and Spinal Health
We are creatures of movement and our body systems rely on movement to function properly. Studies show that even for young people, 2 weeks of physical inactivity leads to 30% loss of muscle mass. In turn, inactivity also leads to loss of flexibility within the joints...
7 Tips to Improve Your Posture and Spinal Health with Physiotherapy
Everyday, your spine wages a war against gravity. How well it is aligned during the day, will dictate how well it survives. Do you sit for long periods at work or at home? Do you find yourself slouching during the day? Poor posture strains spinal muscles, ligaments,...
Sciatica Pain Relief Exercises
4 Easy Exercise for Sciatica Pain ReliefWhen your sciatica nerve is compressed, sciatica pain in your back or leg could be quite painful. Here are 4 simple exercises you could do at home to relieve pain in your sciatica nerve. You could also read this post here to...
What is Sciatica Nerve Pain – Causes and Symptoms
What Is Sciatica? If you have changes in your posture, muscle strength or pelvic alignment, the sciatic nerve can become compressed, leading to common low back and radiating leg pain. Common facts about sciatica The sciatic nerve is the longest and largest nerve in...
Should I use Hot or Cold to Reduce My Shoulder Pain?
This is a very common question and most health professionals would say to use cold therapy if your shoulder was injured in the past 72 hrs. After 72hrs they would say use heat to promote healing. This is a very acceptable statement and followed by millions but there...
Why Does My Back & Neck Hurt?
Why Does My Back & Neck Hurt? Pain is a symptom of the underlying mechanical problem. The vast majority of back, sciatica or neck pain is caused by poor mechanical movement of the spine. This occurs from poor posture, alignment, flexibility, coordination, and weak...