Chiropractic care is often perceived as a treatment of last resort, with many individuals postponing visits until symptoms become severe or debilitating. However, waiting to see a chiropractor can impact both short-term relief and long-term health. This article discusses the benefits of timely chiropractic care, supported by scientific evidence, and highlights why early intervention is crucial for optimal health and well-being.
If you’ve ever woken up in the middle of the night with leg pain, you may familiar with leg cramps. Leg cramps can last from a few seconds to up to 10 minutes and are characterized by a sudden pain due to shortening of a muscle. It occurs most often in the calf, but can also occur in the other parts of the body (though it is less common).
It’s likely that you associate back pain with getting older, but you may be surprised to learn that it can be common in children and adolescents. The one year prevalence rate of low back pain (LBP) has been shown to be anywhere from 7% to 58%. In fact, the lifetime prevalence of LBP by age 20 has skyrocketed by a staggering 80% increase! As a result, we should pay careful attention to the habits and behaviours of the youth in our lives and find ways to provide them with relief if they are experiencing symptoms, as well as help them to prevent pain in the future.
Fascia, you may have never heard of it, but it is an absolutely integral network of thin connective tissue that holds your organs, blood vessels, bones, nerve fibres and muscles in place. Although it may appear as no more than a tightly woven cobweb, fascia plays an incredibly important role in the way you move and feel.spider
Your body composition is made up of fat, bone, water and muscle; with your lean body mass being your fat-free mass. As we age it becomes more difficult to maintain our lean mass which is protective against injury, illness, and death. In this post we will talk about lean mass and it’s importance in fall prevention. The higher your age the higher your risk of falls and/or injury, but it’s never too late to start protecting yourself.
As the days start to get longer and warmer many people start to experience the drive to “get healthy” and get moving again. I hate to break it to you, but you are a year older than you were last year, so it might not be as easy just to jump back into your old routine. Here are some tips to help you get back into an exercise routine and avoid injury.
Originally daylight savings was implemented to make better use of daylight and conserve energy. The first recorded time change in Canada occurred in Thunder Bay in 1908. Many people report a transient disruption in sleep quality during the adjustment of the time change, a study published in 2020 actually demonstrated a number of adverse health side effects observed from the time change.
