I’m inviting you as my guest to view a documentary film that I’ve helped create. …the incredible and inspirational real life story of a Thalidomide survivor in New Brunswick. In the 1960’s, a [...]
We generally have a tendency and desire to choose the path of least resistance in order to achieve our goals. This makes perfect sense — compared to effortless tasks, effortful activities are [...]
After prescribing a variety of exercises in my 33-year career as a physio, I’ve finally come to the realization that how I prescribe an exercise matters far more than what I prescribe. I went [...]
Let’s talk about a big controversy in osteoporosis care: avoiding spinal flexion and rotation. A study once showed that yoga flexion exercises led to spinal fractures in people with osteoporosis, [...]
We often hear: This was my posture before strengthening my rhomboids, and this is my posture after. Or, Here’s my posture before I stretched my pecs, and here’s the after. But let’s be real—this [...]
After 33 years of being a PT and taking hundreds of subjective exam from patients, I have come to the conclusion that the less I talk the better. This is how I currently do my subjective [...]
Exercising to lose pain or to lose weight or to change our body shape immediately implies that we are defective and that we are not good the way we are. When our goal to exercise is to change [...]
Physical Activity: Movement of the body that requires energy Exercise: Structured physical activity that is planned with the purpose of improving and maintaining fitness As physiotherapists, we [...]
Balance has been shown to improve symptoms in many conditions ranging from ankle sprains, chronic neck pain and to even fibromyalgia syndrome, but why? Perhaps it is because the greatest stressor [...]
Hormesis is defined as an adaptive response of cells and organisms to a moderate (usually intermittent) physical and/or physiological stress. For instance fasting is a form of hormesis where the [...]
