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
Here’s What you Need to Know about Sciatica, Chiropractic and Spinal Decompression
Here’s What you Need to Know about Sciatica, Chiropractic and Spinal Decompression.
Why is Sciatica such a big pain in the butt?.
Why do so many patients go from doctor to doctor and clinic to clinic in search of a cure for recurrent episodes of back pain and in particular sciatica? At CanadaPhysio, a week does not go by without encountering a patient seeking treatment for painful, persistent and recurrent Sciatica. What is it about Sciatica, or rather conventional treatmen...
Posted on 2016-06-13
A Podiatrist’s Guide to Buying Shoes for Foot Pain
Podiatrist’s Guide to Buying Shoes for Foot Pain.
Never before has there been so much choice when it comes to footwear. Think back to what the options were just 30 years ago in the late 70’s and 80’s. For the ladies, the style was all about stiletto heels and pointy toes and the men sported Moccasin style loafers. If you didn’t already have foot pain, it was only a question of time. Heels were engineered to displace body weight forward onto the ...
Posted on 2016-05-20
How New Motor Vehicle Insurance Rules Affect Your Rehabilitation Clinic Treatment
How New Motor Vehicle Insurance Rules Affect Your Rehabilitation Clinic Treatment.
This June changes to Ontario Insurance rules will affect the type of treatment that you will receive following a motor vehicle accident unless you take a closer look at the coverage limits that you will be offered at the time of your annual policy renewal.
In the past, if you were injured in a car accident and required Physiotherapy or other rehabilitation services to get you back on your feet, all you had...
Posted on 2016-05-20
Chiropractic is Highly Effective in the Treatment of Back Pain
Symptoms of back pain can range in intensity from mild to severe, caused by both short term, and long term injuries. There are numerous causes of back pain; some are self-inflicted, caused by wear and tear of life, along with sports injuries, muscle strains as well as the effect of accidents and trauma. Although the causes of back pain are many and diverse, the symptoms regardless of cause, are very similar.
Symptoms of back pain can include:.
Persistent aches or stiffness anywhere...
Posted on 2016-04-27