Things you May Never Have Known About Back Pain: Fact not Fiction
Back pain is a funny thing. It can come quite suddenly, out of nowhere and completely incapacitate you for several days or weeks or it can come on gradually and intermittently, slowly taking its toll. Pain ranges from sharp and stabbing to a constant, dull ache. You can get back pain from lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, even sneezing and coughing. The options are endless. Here are some quick facts:
While anyone can get it, it is definitely more prevalent ...
Posted on 2016-08-26
What Does it Mean When Someone has Chronic Pain?
By definition, Chronic Pain is said to exist when pain remains present for a period of 6 months or more. Studies indicate that 20-30% of the population are affected by chronic pain (British Journal of Medicine). Shockingly enough, some patients describe their chronic pain condition as constant and ever present pain day after day. Others will report that their pain has more of an intermittent quality, with periods of intensity and diminishment but never fully absent for more than a very s...
Posted on 2016-08-26
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
A Chiropodist’s 1st Reported Case of a Pokemon Go Injury
Today I treated my first case of a Pokemon Go related injury. Of course, at first I thought that I was merely treating a routine ankle sprain, similar to the many, many ankle sprains and strains that I have encountered in almost 30 years of Chiropody practice. My 26 year old, very athletic and fit patient presented at our CanadaPhysio clinic today hopping on one foot and in obvious distress. He could barely put weight on his ankle and there was bruising and swelling around th...
Posted on 2016-07-14
What is the Difference Between Acute and Chronic Pain?
What is the Difference Between Acute and Chronic Pain?.
In clinical practice, your doctor and therapist will frequently refer to pain as either acute or chronic, but what does this really mean? Acute Pain by definition describes a sensation that is intense and sharp in quality. Its onset can be sudden, rapid and can quickly escalate. Patients in acute pain are very motivated to do something about it. It is hard to ignore acute pain and it can very easily take over your...
Posted on 2016-06-13