by Dr. Sheena Wu, ND & Dr. Sarah Bourret, ND Osteoarthritis is often confused with osteoporosis since often people have both. While osteoarthritis is a complex degenerative disease of a joint, hat causes joint pain and reduces joint mobility and function, osteoporosis is the loss of bone mass which causes risk of fractures. Despite [...]
Don’t Let Headaches Control Your Life Headache is a common pain we experience day to day, they come in all sizes and forms. Tension, cluster and migraine all affect us in one way or another, hampering our day or week. Factors such as postural imbalances, excess screen time, tight muscles and untreated head traumas impact [...]
Can Overtraining Make You Injury Prone? As active individuals we often forget to balance workdays with rest days. Performing repetitive actions daily can lead to prolonged soreness in our bodies. Overuse injuries caused by repeating movements affect the joints and muscles. Work related and sports based injuries affect our overall performance and make us injury [...]
Is a Sedentary Lifestyle Impacting Your Wellbeing? With the lockdown fatigue taking over our daily lives, homebound lifestyle is becoming the new norm. Social distancing to flatten the curve has shifted many of us from being active individuals to couch potatoes. Being sedentary places our body in a catatonic stage affecting our immune system and [...]
Is Chronic Pain Affecting Your Lifestyle? Are you suffering from chronic pain? Chronic pain is an ongoing occurrence, usually long term lasting over six months. Dull, achy pain that continues after post injury or illness. Chronic pain can cause physical stress on the body. Manual Osteopathy can help reduce chronic and acute pain and provide [...]
