4 Tips to Avoid Slips and Falls this Winter Season Winter in Edmonton is full of opportunities to get outside and enjoy the many recreational pursuits available only during the cold season, like skating, skiing and snowshoeing. But it’s also the time of year when people come to our clinic with fall-related injuries from slippery …
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4 Strategies to Help Get Motivated During These Difficult Times If the past 2+ years have shown us anything, we must be resilient and find ways to stay positive and motivated. Whether at work or hanging out with friends or family, the current day-to-day grind can take a toll. As physiotherapists, we work daily to …
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A Great Exercise You Should Do if Experiencing Shoulder Pain Do you ever find yourself dealing with shoulder pain? Keeping our shoulders healthy can be a challenge. But, as we get older, we can find ourselves trying to understand better how to keep aches and pains at bay. At Innovation Physical Therapy, we find ourselves …
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What is Manual Therapy? Manual therapy is an umbrella term for a hands-on approach to managing neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Manual therapy aims to improve the range of motion, reduce pain and inflammation, assist in optimal tissue repair, and restore optimal movement and function. Skilled clinicians use various techniques on joints and soft tissues to achieve these …
Get The Most From Your Stretching Routine People trying to find ways to stay active while at home have set up personal gyms and yoga studios. Setting up an exercise space is a significant first step; the next step is using the new exercise area. However, before diving into your new fitness journey, there is …
Yoga & Accompanying Wrist Pain: Physiotherapy & Yoga Perspectives on How to Resolve Yoga is an excellent exercise that incorporates stretching and mindful awareness of your body through movement. There are many schools of yoga with a wide variety of different poses. One of the most common schools of yoga is hatha yoga. The movement sequences, or …
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Things to Keep in Mind When Exercising Outdoors in the Heat Well, if the past few weeks are any sign of what’s to come, we’re in for a scorching summer! As we can all agree, Summer is a coveted time in Edmonton. Long days, hot weather and lots of sunshine! Many Edmontonians love to take …
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3 Reasons Not to Skip Sleep This Season…Plus 3 Tips For Better Sleep With the current landscape and the busyness of the season, it’s easy to burn the candle at both ends. Unfortunately, with all this hustle and bustle, our sleep is the one area that can end up suffering the most. Sleep is an …
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A Physiotherapists Guide: Safe Yard Work With Springtime being as crazy as it has been with quarantine and social distancing, many people in Edmonton have been filling their time doing work around their yards. With all this excitement to get out of the house and find something to do, the unbridled enthusiasm can leave many …
10 Reasons Why Physical Therapy Is Beneficial It’s fair to say that almost all of us have experienced an injury from sports, tweaked something while picking up a box or even just pulled something from sleeping funny or sneezing! Most people count on the pain going away, but unfortunately, that is not always the case. …
