The Anatomy of Walking and How Physiotherapy Can Help For any fitness level, walking provides excellent exercise. It’s a low-impact form of exercise that virtually anyone can do. Walking on a regular basis can help lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol and bone strength, and it helps keep you at a healthy weight. Walking uses many…
Tackle These Tennis Tips This Spring! If you haven’t been practicing on indoor courts, it’s time to dust off your racket and get outdoors this spring. Before you even consider taking on a match, you’ll want to take these tennis tips to heart so you don’t wind up with an injury that will have you…
How to Prevent Back Pain During Your Summer Campout For many families in Ontario, summer means camping trips. It’s an exciting time, loading up the car with tents and supplies and venturing to disconnect from the world by going out in the wild. But roughing it is rough on the body. You may find that…
5 Most Common Summertime Injuries to See a Physiotherapist About While physiotherapists stay busy year-round, summer always seems busier than usual. That’s because there are more activities that keep you going. An active lifestyle is important for your best health, though it does bear more risk for injury. Which injuries seem to surface more than…
How to Prevent Injury for Upcoming Spring Sports When the snow melts away, the sleds and skis get tucked into storage and the spring sports equipment comes out. With them though comes new opportunity for injury. For adults on leagues or kids at school, spring sports can lead to more injuries than ever because coming…
Football Injury? How Physiotherapy Can Help You Get Back in the Game Without a doubt, the sport that will net the most injuries is football. Now that sports are coming back in full-force, it’s important to prepare for the inevitable injury. Whether you play a quick game in the yard with family in friends, have…
Physiotherapy’s Role in Battling Chronic Pain During Coronavirus and After Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic required us to avoid going out as much as we normally would. But now, things are starting to improve out there. In your home though, you may have been more sedentary. Coupled with the added stress of the situation, that doesn’t…
Why Physiotherapists See More Injuries in Winter You’d think that with the blankets of snow upon us during the winter, there would be less chance for injury. However, for physiotherapists, they’re busier than ever. Winter weather often means curling up by the fire with a hot beverage. While that’s certainly true during snowstorms, you have…
How Seniors Can Benefit from Physiotherapy Often, people associate physiotherapy with something to be done after an injury. While physiotherapy is indeed beneficial for those that have been in an accident or hurt themselves, it can be a great benefit for seniors in many other ways. If you’re an active adult, here’s why you should…
5 Tips for Managing Pregnancy Sciatica When you’re pregnant, you’re expecting a baby, but what you might not be expecting is sciatica. Of all the symptoms you hear about during the prenatal period, sciatica is less commonly discussed. Sciatica is usually associated with herniations of the discs in your spine, but it can happen while…
