Navigating Pain While Exercising Regular physical activity is essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but what...
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Do I need to be in pain to see a physiotherapist?
Top 8 reasons you should see a physiotherapist even if you don’t have pain If you don't have pain, a physiotherapist...
Pain: How it Works & Management
Pain is Complex!
Modern pain science focuses on the biopsychosocial model of pain, which posits that our qualitative experience of pain is an holistic combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. This post will go through how pain works and how to manage it.
Balance Exercises Featuring the Strongboard
Balance uses visual, vestibular, and somatosensory (proprioception mainly) systems to maintain a line of gravity from a base of support, minimizing lateral sway from that equilibrium. Balance, an often over-looked component of fitness, is a skill that can be tested and improved in a range of ways. One such way that we advocate for is using an unstable surface or specially-designed tool, like the Strongboard Balance Board
Knee Pain: Everything You Kneed to Know
The largest joint in the human body, it is a hinge joint of the lower extremities that allows flexion, extension, and slight internal/external rotation. Stresses of the knee include weight-bearing, extension-locking, and impacts, twists, and turns.