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All Posts Tagged: BACK PAIN DOWN THE LEG

Lower Back Injury and what you can do!

Every year thousands of people suffer some type of lower back injury. This often requires a visit to their chiropractor as a result of gardening or doing some other type of yard work. This happens a lot in the spring when people are anxious to get outside and tend to their yards after months of being penned indoors by the winter season.

It is relatively easy to injure your back, especially if you are moving heavy objects around the yard. While good chiropractic care is always one of the first things you should do after receiving such an injury, you also want to consider the fact that chiropractic care, which occurs on a fairly regular basis, may help to curb some of these injuries in the first place as does following some common safety precautions when you are working in your yard. Our team can help you improve your readiness for the spring season using Active Release Technique, Chiropractic Manipulation, home exercise strategies, and improving your stretching at home as well!

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Who needs 315 feet of RockTape? These docs!

UPS man just dropped off 315 feet of RockTape!  Who needs 315 feet of RockTape, look no further than these docs!  Looking ahead to the the spring running season, spring track, as well as many other sports, it was time to get loaded up again on our favorite form of Kinesiology Tape, RockTape!

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The Canadian Armed Forces has thrown out dated fitness testing in favor of real-world tasks. Sit-ups tossed out.

The Toronto Star published a story recently (January 20th, 2016) with the headline, “The Death of the Sit Up”.  The article immediately popped up on my social media feeds because one of the consultants mentioned in the article is Stuart McGill, PhD.  Dr. McGill is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo. […]

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The necessary evils of sitting, work stations, work desks and office chairs!

Recently sitting at a desk, using a computer, and sitting in office chairs have been under heavy attacks from all angles due to sitting too much and it possibly being a repetitive trauma to some areas of the body.  It’s hard to think about sitting and working at a desk as possible trauma, but when […]

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“Walking is not a very good back exercise” mentioned on PBS this weekend, not a very good opinion

I was slightly shocked listening to a show on PBS this weekend discussing all forms of exercises to help with aging.  On the the show they were discussing a wide variety of exercising from a large panel and the topics of discussions were yoga, pilates, stretching routines, swimming, cycling, running and many other forms.  A […]

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