If you have a chronic ailment, or simply like to live a healthier lifestyle, chances are that naturopathic medicine has come across your radar of treatment possibilities at one point or another. If so, you can’t be blamed if you’re a little (or a lot) confused about the mixed signals you might get. But, if…
We’ve told you before about the benefits of massage therapy, particularly when it’s delivered by a registered massage therapist. From pain reduction and improving mobility, to helping you deal with anxiety and stress, massage therapy can help both your physical and mental health. So what have you done lately to make your massage sessions even…
Whether you receive regular treatments as part of an overall health regimen, or you’ve just looked into it but never been treated, you know three things about acupuncture. First, it is one of the oldest practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), first documented in 100 BC. But there is evidence that acupuncture was practiced long…
Summer time is driving time. If the fact that gas prices are usually higher in the summer than the winter isn’t a tell-tale sign, we tend to hit the road more often in the summer. It makes sense. From local day trips, to cross-country road trips, travelling by car simply makes more sense when there’s…
It’s usually considered a sign of age. It comes from the grunts and groans that some ‘older’ people make when the get up from a chair or bed after sitting or lying down for some time. For the record, tight, sore, aching muscles can happen to adults of any age. As we age, our muscles…
Even in a relatively violent sport like hockey, the area in front of the goal is like a lawless world. Hits and slashes and other rough play that might draw a penalty call elsewhere on the ice are routinely let go by referees looking to keep the game flowing. To most viewers, a double-hit against…
In Reduce Chronic Inflammation & Be Healthier – Part 1 we looked at what is inflammation, what causes it and what are its often painful symptoms. In a nutshell, inflammation is actually one way that your body responds to a perceived threat. When you strain a muscle or cut your skin, the body responds by…
It’s a bit of an odd situation; maybe even a little ironic. If you look at Active Health’s list of Services, you see that most of them can be used to treat inflammation. Where’s the irony in that? Well, inflammation is actually a symptom of your body’s system of self-defense against a number of perceived…
Last year around this time, we told you about how to avoid sports and exercise injuries in the spring. The reason we did is because we see a notable increase in our clients reporting even minor injuries in the spring. And they are often due to getting back into their warm-weather activates before their bodies…
We humans aren’t the only ones who can benefit from physiotherapy and massage therapy for the treatment of pain. If you’re a dog owner, you know how heart-wrenching it is to see your pet painfully walking up stairs, or not exercising as much as he or she should, or wants to, because it’s too painful….
