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All Exercise Is Not Equal
Author: Geoff Dakin
Geoff is a Registered Massage Therapist in Calgary who has been working in the acute injury/chronic pain treatment and athletic training field since 1989. He has 7 years of college and university training as well as countless hours of post-graduate continuing education. In 1991/92 Geoff worked and travelled in the NHL as a member of the training staff of the Vancouver Canucks.
Posture and Exercise: a Look in the Rear-view Mirror
Sit up straight! Who didn’t hear that once or twice during their childhood? I know I did. Did you honestly think your mother was the first person on earth to be concerned about posture?
Prolotherapy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Prolotherapy is a somewhat controversial option for the treatment of chronic pain. Prolotherapy involves injections that are designed to create scar tissue.
A Tale of Two Bodies
It would be easy to be depressed today. It’s almost the end of April and it’s snowing outside! Nevertheless, I’m excited to get to the clinic and see what the day has in store for me.
Scary Scoliosis
“Scoliosis” is a scary word for a lot of people. Scoliosis refers to lateral curvature of the spine. This is what I found on www.mayoclinic.org regarding scoliosis:
Stretching, the Truth
Stretching is like an egg. One minute the research says it is healthy and the next minute it isn’t. Decades ago it seemed like athletes didn’t stretch.
Unique as Snowflakes
People are as unique as snowflakes and as I’m fond of saying, some of us are more “special” than others. I love my job. There’s never any danger of being bored.
From Teeth to Toes
I recently wrote a short article about how the way your teeth bite together has a big impact on your posture. Although most people can easily understand that “the hip bone’s connected to the knee bone”…
The Most Important Question
A patient and I were exchanging emails regarding his newest exercise prescription this morning when he dropped this bomb on me; “Is getting me all straightened up going to do something for me?
Taking a Bite Out of Posture
It wasn’t that long ago that I had little appreciation for how important our bite is to our posture. A little over a year and a half ago I helped a patient of a local dentist and the relationship that developed…