Sciatica and Pregnancy
If you are pregnant, you are probably going through one of the most joyous and physically trying periods of your life. Aside from adapting to your new shape and increasingly limited mobility, you might also be prone to experiencing excruciating sciatica pain. Consider yourself fortunate if you have evaded this type of agonizing, shooting pain up to now. But what can you do if pregnancy causes compression of your sciatic nerve and you are advised to stay away from anti-inflammat...
Posted on 2017-02-14
What Chiropractic Can Do for You After a Car Accident
Motor vehicle accidents are unfortunate events that occur on a daily basis, leaving drivers, passengers and pedestrians injured and disabled. If you were involved in a car accident and managed to walk away from it unharmed you can consider yourself very lucky! However, experience has taught us that most injuries received in a motor vehicle accident are not always immediately evident. It is not uncommon for back pain and a variety of other injuries to fully manifest ...
Posted on 2017-02-14
What is the Difference between a Physiotherapist and an Occupational Therapist?
Many patients are curious about the differences between a Physiotherapist (PT), also commonly referred to as a Physical Therapist and that of an Occupational Therapist (OT). Both are well educated and essential health care providers practising in the field of rehabilitative medicine. While they have many overlapping similarities they are primarily distinguished from one another by differences having to do with each profession’s focus of intervention and care. In reality...
Posted on 2016-08-23
What Physiotherapists Can Teach you to Decrease the Likelihood of Low Back Pain
Physiotherapists provide many different types of effective treatment for low back pain but they also provide their patients with plenty of education on how to avoid or minimize this type of injury. Sometimes low back pain is cause by a single injury or incident, but most often it is caused or exacerbated by a long list of repetitive strains and aggravating positions and movements. CanadaPhysio physiotherapists spend time with patients teaching proper posture, position and movements...
Posted on 2016-03-30