Boomers & Sunscreen on my head

April 7, 2011

There is nothing that makes me feel older than having to squirt SPF 50 on the top of my nut, where I’m sure there is hair, but seems to get burnt if I don’t. What’s with that! I never had to before! While on my recent spring vacation with my family, a read a book [...]

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Pain changes how pain works, Part 2: what it means for patients and professionals (by Paul Ingraham)

March 31, 2011

Today’s post comes a colleague of mine, Mr. Paul Ingraham. Paul is a health science journalist and former Registered Massage Therapist. From 2000-2009, Paul had a busy massage therapy practice in Vancouver, and published SaveYourself.ca in his “spare” time. Eventually SaveYourself.ca took over, and it is now his full-time business. Thank you Paul for allowing [...]

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Pain changes how pain works: what we know about central sensitization so far (by Paul Ingraham)

March 17, 2011

Today’s post comes a colleague of mine, Mr. Paul Ingraham. Paul is a health science journalist and former Registered Massage Therapist. From 2000-2009, Paul had a busy massage therapy practice in Vancouver, and published SaveYourself.ca in his “spare” time. Eventually SaveYourself.ca took over, and it is now his full-time business. Thank you Paul for allowing [...]

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Is That Scar Tissue?

March 3, 2011

Many patients have asked me as I treat them, “is that scar tissue” or “My Doctor says I have scar tissue” but do you really know what scar tissue is, what it looks like or how it forms. We all know what the scab on your arm looks like after you cut yourself, but is [...]

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27 Must Reads of a Massage Therapist

February 17, 2011

Over the past week I’ve had two patients ask me what I read. Medical books, journals, novels, what? And as I went through my list I found it fascinating to find what you can learn about a person from what they read. So for something completely different this week I’m posting my current reading list, [...]

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Can a piece of tape improve your health?

February 10, 2011

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be wrapped up like a package? No? Me neither however the K-Taping Pro course I took on the weekend was exactly like wrapping up a package, only we were wrapping each other. Taking turns applying K-Tape to a body part, limb, muscle, or ligament, we [...]

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New Technology, Same Old Principles – Thanks Mr. Lalanne

February 3, 2011

As I perused through my stacks of articles and files in search of what to write about this week, I came across my first ever newsletter, written in 1985. I was a young therapist, enthusiastic (still am 26 years later) who had a brand new 286 IBM PC with ‘Advanced Technology’ that had 20 MB [...]

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If you think you’ve got ‘the Lumbago’……think again!

January 27, 2011

We’ve come a long way from calling all low back pain ‘the lumbago’, and in this article I’ll explore some leading causes of, and remedies for low back pain that have soft tissue (muscle/tendon/ligament) as their source. What’s happening to our low Backs? (Part 1) Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most commonly [...]

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“Run, Forest, Run” … but not with sore feet!

January 20, 2011

It’s not plantar fasciitis! No matter what they say, and what you think, it’s not plantar fasciitis that you are suffering from, and we (read I) want to change the way everybody who comes to my office looking for help thinks about this condition. Most of the time I will help you get better, no [...]

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Fixing Mom’s Super Hero Cape

January 12, 2011

She struggled as she walked into my office, her face expressing a pain that is indescribable. Six months ago her back had began to ‘act up’. With kids, work, a husband and a house to look after who had time to deal with a minor back ache. Besides, she was active, not like before kids, [...]

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