It’s been about a week or two since we all started working from home. Who’s struggling? It’s definitely come with it’s challenges, I’m sharing what I’ve learned from working from home for the last year — Working from home has it’s perks, though most of those perks have been diminished now that we are self-isolating…
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If I had a dollar for every time I had a patient say “I was feeling good, so I stopped doing my exercises” followed a week or two later with “I’ve had a set back” or “I’ve been in pain again” We’ve all been there, myself included. It’s much easier to do something consistently when…
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Often times I have patients who are fed up with the injury rehab process and want to look at surgical options. I avoided surgery for a long time before I came to the conclusion (with recommendations from specialists) that it was time to consider a meniscal repair or partial meniscectomy. Over 5 years I tried…
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In my last blog post, I spoke about setting intentions instead of resolutions, which for lifestyle changes is the way to go to see long-term success. But what about those times that you really do need (or want) to narrow in on something specific and achieve something, like running a marathon, or getting back from…
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2020 has arrived! It’s a new year, and a new decade. With the changing of the guards so to speak, there is an obscene amount of motivational quotes, resolutions, and lists with boxes to check off flooding the inter webs. I’ll admit it. I usually fall victim of this. That this year, I will somehow…
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I have a client who I’ve been seeing regularly for the past few weeks. He started a new job as a courier which is quite physical – lifting approximately 5000lbs over the course of a day! Going from a job where he was primarily sitting all day, to walking and lifting for 8-10 hours a…
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Concussion Recovery – A personal experience.. In January of this year, I was at a one-on-one wheelchair practice performing sideline repeats at max speed. I had been training consistently for the past few months and finally started to learn to use my hips to turn the chair (an advantage as an able-bodied player that I…
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Concussion Management: What we know now & How Athletic Therapy can help A sport-related concussion (SRC) is defined as: ‘a traumatic brain injury induced by biomechanical forces.’1 Although research focuses on SCR, we know concussions can occur outside of sport and ‘may be caused either by a direct blow to the head, face, neck or elsewhere…
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Not sure what Athletic Therapy is? Don’t worry, for awhile, I didn’t either! I was in my first year of college, playing varsity volleyball while pursing a diploma in Fitness and Health Promotion. I had always had an interest in both sports and the human body – being a kinesthetic learner, I wanted to learn by…
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June is National Athletic Therapy Month, and to celebrate, Athletic Therapy Plus is offering a FREE Functional Mobility sample class to your sports team, club, or group. Regardless of sport or activity, we believe having proper joint mobility is crucial to performance in sport, work and life. Space is limited so contact us today to reserve…
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