Video Series on Improving Your Posture: Video #3

Welcome to Straighten Up Canada, a simple three-minute program designed to help you achieve better posture.

This program is designed to promote a healthy spine through better posture and is intended for healthy adults. If you experience difficulty performing any of these exercises, please stop and consult a chiropractor or other healthcare professional.

As you Straighten Up, here are a few tips to remember:

Calm your mind and put distracting thoughts aside.
Straighten up by standing tall, feet together and arms by your sides.
Remember to breathe calmly, deeply and slowly.
Move slowly and smoothly. Movements should not be jerky.

This video series can be found on the Canadian Chiropractic Association Website.

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Video Series on Improving Your Posture: Video #2

Welcome to Straighten Up Canada, a simple three-minute program designed to help you achieve better posture.

This program is designed to promote a healthy spine through better posture and is intended for healthy adults. If you experience difficulty performing any of these exercises, please stop and consult a chiropractor or other healthcare professional.

As you Straighten Up, here are a few tips to remember:

Calm your mind and put distracting thoughts aside.
Straighten up by standing tall, feet together and arms by your sides.
Remember to breathe calmly, deeply and slowly.
Move slowly and smoothly. Movements should not be jerky.

This video series can be found on the Canadian Chiropractic Association Website.

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Video Series on Improving Your Posture: Video #1

Welcome to Straighten Up Canada, a simple three-minute program designed to help you achieve better posture.

This program is designed to promote a healthy spine through better posture and is intended for healthy adults. If you experience difficulty performing any of these exercises, please stop and consult a chiropractor or other healthcare professional.

As you Straighten Up, here are a few tips to remember:

  1. Calm your mind and put distracting thoughts aside.
  2. Straighten up by standing tall, feet together and arms by your sides.
  3. Remember to breathe calmly, deeply and slowly.
  4. Move slowly and smoothly. Movements should not be jerky.

This video series can be found on the Canadian Chiropractic Association Website.

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Choose to Move – Inspiring Stories

Check out part two of our Choose to Move campaign, which highlights the difference physiotherapy can make, and the positive role it plays in helping people live fuller, more active lives.

 

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Moving with Arthritis – How Physiotherapy Helps

One in eight Canadians currently suffers from some kind of arthritis, and over the next 20 years, this number is expected to rise to one in four (the result of a less active population, obesity and other factors). For young people –almost 20% of all osteoarthritis patients – the condition develops after an injury or trauma to joints.

One of the major concerns arthritis patients have is the fear that there’s nothing they can do to treat their arthritis. Physiotherapists want patients to know that it doesn’t need to be that way – and that those living with arthritis can get moving for life again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Knee Exercises: Straight Leg Raise

Physio exercises to help improve range of movement at the knee and strengthen the quads.

This video is presented by qualified Chartered Physiotherapists Steph Davies and Louise Aylwin at www.physioexerciselibrary.com

For more information about knee exercises, please contact our physiotherapists Nicole Logan or Shadie Fleifel.

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Modified Sleeper Stretch

Welcome to our video series hosted by Shadi Flefeil where he discusses stretching and strengthening your body. This time we’re discussing shoulder stretches.

The sleeper stretch is a focused stretch of the posterior shoulder capsule. This stretch is excellent for overhead athletes such as pitchers and tennis players to help prevent injury.  It is also an essential part of the rehabilitation plan for many shoulder injuries.

Shadi is passionate about sports rehabilitation; and with his years of clinical knowledge, excels in treating “everyday” injuries, including neck and back pain, overuse injuries, and acute musculoskeletal injuries.

 

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The Superman Exercise

Welcome to our video series hosted by Shadi Flefeil where he discusses stretching and strengthening your body. This time we’re discussing  The Superman.

Shadi Fleifel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology at Western University in London Ontario, before going to Perth, Australia to complete his Master’s degree in Physiotherapy in 2008.

For more information on this series of exercises, please contact the clinic at 250-382-0018.

 

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Shoulder strength exercises – Internal rotation

Welcome to our video series hosted by Shadi Flefeil where he discusses stretching and strengthening your body.

This time we’re discussing caring for your shoulder, specifically you rotator cuff.  Stretching and strengthening exercises can help you properly use your shoulder to minimize over use of the rotator cuff.

For more information, please contact Shadi at 250-382-0018

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Exercise for Shoulder Rotator Cuff

Welcome to our video series hosted by Shadi Flefeil where he discusses stretching and strengthening your body. This time we’re discussing caring for your shoulder, specifically you rotator cuff.

Shadi will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Please contact him at 250-382-0018, during clinic hours.

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