By: Active Sports Therapy Spring and Summer are a fantastic time to get the competitive juices flowing by signing up for various races and challenges in and around the city. Maybe it’s your first 5k, your second marathon of the summer or a community triathlon, either way, you’ll want to be ready for it. In […]
By: Active Sports Therapy As golfing is a seasonal sport, people often jump into it quickly and with high frequency. Since 18 holes are the most common way to play, overuse injuries can occur. If you develop an injury, it can result in a frustrating experience out on the links as injuries affect your swing, […]
Written by: Sarah Kuindersma, M.A.T. Specialist Muscles power everything that we do. From getting out of bed to walking our pets, to doing house chores. All things we want to continue to do even as we age. Our muscle function is impacted by a number of different things. The common denominator is when too much […]
Written by Kira Greasley: BA, CHNC As a Certified Holistic Nutritional Consultant I believe that every month should be nutrition month. Luckily the month of March provides us greater opportunities to educate people on how life changing eating well can be. It does not need to be expensive or complicated, but if you are struggling […]
Active Sports Therapy is excited to introduce Shockwave therapy. Shockwave has proven to be helpful for many chronic conditions. Who can benefit from Shockwave therapy? Patients with chronic pain who have been treated unsuccessfully with other forms of therapy may benefit from Shockwave. Conditions such as shoulder pain, tennis elbow, heel spurs, hip pain, knee pain, carpal tunnel […]
By Sarah Kuindersma, M.A.T Muscle Activation Techniques, PTS, Our hands are in high demand and often taken for granted. We type, we text, we lift, and grip throughout the day, without taking a moment to appreciate the humble wrist. This humble wrist makes most of our day-to-day activities possible. It is important that we make […]
Written by: Dr. Fiona Lovely, Chiropractor Practitioner of Functional Neurology and Functional Medicine at AST We live in a world where we are bombarded with information, in multiple ways, every second of every day. Many people aren’t aware just how stressful to our brain and nerve systems this bombardment can be. Frankly, we have yet […]
One of the most common winter injuries that we see in our clinic is lower back injuries from snow removal. If you’re not careful, this snowy chore can lead to serious pain and injury. As a Canadian, shovelling is just part of life so take a minute to read our winter shovelling tips. Shovelling snow […]
Written by: Kira Greasley, BA, Nutritional Holistic Consultant, Have you ever felt so stuffed that you could not move after one or several holiday festivities? I know I have! So for this holiday season, I am going to arm you with a few mindful eating tools, that will have you enjoying your festivities without that […]
HOW THE HEART IMPACTS OUR IMMUNITY, RESILIENCE AND OUR PATHWAY TO CHRONIC DISEASE Written by: Dr Clare Westmacott MD, CCFP-LM, MDMFHom(UK) and Carole Westmacott RN Science has now proven that our Heart is the most energetic engine in our body and it creates an electromagnetic field around our body that can be measured up to […]
