Misconception 1: Massage has been mainly portrayed as a technique to create relaxation. Therapeutically, massage is so much more than this! Two growing areas for therapeutic massage now are pain/injury management and sports massage. Imagine you ache all the time — ankle, knee, back, neck. You have come to use pain medications as short term solutions at best, and causing more problems than they help, at worst. On the other…
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The Acupuncture Turning Point collaborates with Nicole and Len, owners of Breathe Fitness, to help our clients be at their best. Go to the Breathe Fitness website to find out more… by Nicole Lark BHK, PTS, TSCC-3 Every December around Christmas and New Years clients ask me, “so, do you get lots of new people coming in January to workout?” and the honest answer is “no”. We tend to see…
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Meeting and understanding other complementary health professionals by Gord Grant, PhD, RAc Over the next months I am investigating healthcare practices outside of my own field to better understand the science and tradition behind them. I intend to share my findings with my clinical team, my clients, and the public, so that we can all make more intelligent decisions about our healthcare choices. This past week I met with…
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by Gord Grant PhD, RAc The time has come. A turning point is happening in healthcare; although maybe not the one you think! The future is not about life extension through technology and micromanaging diseases — at least not for the majority. Emerging from a former focus on disease detection and symptom mitigation is a network of progressive health professionals who will help reframe the very idea of healthcare itself. They…
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by Gord Grant PhD, RAc and Alina Tousseeva, RAc The majority of people with complex and unresolved pain find themselves vulnerable and frustrated in this “no-man’s land” of western medicine. Often a specialist will exclude a problem from his or her domain if it does not meet given criteria leading to a clear diagnosis. As such, he or she cannot treat the problem from his or her way of training…
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by Carl Parnham RMT First of all, regardless of the objective of a treatment, a massage therapist is trained in using basic techniques such as “effleurage” (long gliding strokes) and “petrassage” –(kneading, circular motions, bending and picking up of the tissues).Basically, the goal of the treatment drives the way effleurage and petrassage are used (speed, force, angle, timing), where they are applied and the amount of time needed for assessment…
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Over the next months I will investigate and experience healthcare practices outside of my own field to better understand the science and tradition behind them. I intend to share my findings with my clinical team, my clients, and the public, so that we can all make more intelligent decisions about our healthcare choices. I will start by looking into naturopathic medicine, since ND’s are the general practitioners of complementary healthcare….
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by Gord Grant PhD, RAc Our move to the new clinic space has been an opportunity to re-examine our vision of what our work is aiming to be . I think anyone – individuals or groups, a single person or a community organization, a family business, or a corporation – can benefit from re-examining and stating their vision and reason to be from time to time. For us at The…
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by Carl Parnham RMT The “big picture” in my work all starts with postural assessment. The power of properly integrating a thorough postural assessment into a treatment can be astonishing! It goes far beyond the normal focus of symptoms of muscle tightness and pain. Posture has been defined as a “synthesis of the positions of all the body’s joints at any given time.” Indeed, posture may be focused on positions…
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Losing weight while you are stressed may be harder. Ironically, you may have to eat even less than a unstressed person to loose the same weight. Is it just calories in calories out? Well, it depends on your metabolism. Here’s a particular client’s situation that will explain what I mean. She gave me permission to describe to you her struggle and how we approached it work toward success. This woman…
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