Lindsay Mustard is an Ottawa based Holistic Nutritionist and Personal Trainer. In this article, she discusses the importance of water, hydration, how to tell if you are de-hydrated, how much water you should be drinking, and ways to increase hydration in your diet. Importance of Water First and foremost, water ...
Proprioception. Let’s throw some big words occasionally because not everybody wants to know the big long fancy term of something when you can say it more simply. Proprioception is a big long fancy term for awareness. The little nerves in our tissues, joints, tendons, and muscles tell us about where ...
Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. It involves inflammation of a thick band of tissue that runs across the bottom of your foot and connects your heel bone to your toes (plantar fascia). We have received many comments and questions regarding PF, foot pain, ...
https://www.facebook.com/healingthroughmovement1/videos/2028268507385473/ These simple body movements are great to do before and after a walk and will get your joints and muscles feeling strong and mobile! #1 – Quad Stretch Begin in an upright standing position, maintaining good alignment with your head, shoulders, hips and legs. Bring one heel up against ...
https://www.facebook.com/healingthroughmovement1/videos/2043744675837856/ A foam roller is a great tool to help decrease muscle tension. If you sit, exercise a lot, or have an injury, your muscles will tighten up especially in the injured area. Tight muscles will lead to decrease in flexibility, mobility, adhesions of muscle fibers and increase your pain. ...
http://thepainhacker.com/Morning-Movements/ We’re going to do 5 different exercise or movements that we can also relate to functional movements. These activities are going to help us maintain our independence like getting out of the chair, pushing ourselves up in the washroom, cooking in the kitchen. As we do these, we are ...
You don’t need to have a gym membership to have healthy knee joints! Do these anywhere! We will go through 5 best exercises for bad knees to do anywhere. If you know of anyone that's suffering from knee pain or has bad knee pain, definitely share these exercises with them. ...
Let me get to today's topic. This came up from a customer, who submitted a question saying, “What are the exercises that I can do in the morning in order to start my day off right? And for those exercises, I want to do them in my bed before I ...
“What exercise should I do for Sciatica pain?” Sciatica is extremely common and the pain can be debilitating. Often time we get questions from our customers wondering what exercises they can do to complement the Unlock Your Hip Flexors program. Let’s me go through 5 of those exercises that can ...
“What is Hip Bursitis?” Before we go through the movements related to Hip Bursitis, let me give you a bit of background when it comes to Hip Bursitis Common Causes for Hip Bursitis: Stiffness in the Hip joint – The common mistake that people make is they really don't think ...
