According to the Canadian Chiropractic Association (CCA) 2017 report, All Pain, No Gain: Shining a Light on Canada’s Back Pain and Opioid Crisis, almost 90 per cent of Canadians have experienced muscle and/or joint pain in the last year, the most common being back pain and headache. Pain affects the way people work, play and…
We know that sitting too much is not good for the body, but did you know that sitting and poor posture can cause more than just the occasional neck and back pain? Other problems such as poor balance, breathing difficulties, and headaches can be also be caused by poor posture. A recent health article in…
Daily routine can often get the best of us. Between getting ready for the full day ahead, carpooling the children’s school drop off, and getting to work on time, it often feels like you’ve already completed a day’s worth of activities all before your morning coffee. Even though the day can get ahead of us,…
Stress can manifest itself in a physical way. Think about the last time you were stressed; did you shrug your shoulders? Did you tense up your calf muscles? Did you tighten your gluteal muscles? These are examples of how our body expresses stress in a physical way. Why do our bodies do this? It is…