Research Corner: The Death of the Clamshell
Research has shown a clear link between glute muscle (your butt) weakness and ankle, knee, hip, and low back pain. There is also evidence...
Research has shown a clear link between glute muscle (your butt) weakness and ankle, knee, hip, and low back pain. There is also evidence...
This week I received the physio version of the dreaded, "It's not you, it's me." email. A patient and I had been working on her desk work...
The foam roll, a cost effective, low risk way to reduce muscle tension? Or, the gateway drug sending patients on a self massage spiral...
Back in my hockey glory days, our on-ice warmups would be fairly short. We'd get anywhere between 3-5 minutes to get the blood pumping,...
When it comes to tight muscles, we hear about the usual suspects: upper traps, hip flexors, hamstrings, and Keyser Söze (GREAT movie)....
My cellphone and I have had a rocky relationship for the past few years now. I've gone from fully addicted to fully afraid of it and back...
Last Friday sucked. I saw more doctors in that day than I have in year. I went to see my family doctor for what I originally thought was...
Two words: expectation management. I had a pretty big "Aha!" moment during rounds at Shift the other day. That moment was immediately...
I've recently read Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. It's an important read for anyone who...
I've been having this conversation endlessly during the past few months, and as the home office seems to be here to stay, I figured it...
For those of you who have read some of my earlier posts you will know that I love to use Neurokinetic Therapy (NKT) as one of my...
One of the many trends I've noticed since starting my career is that most people wait far too long before they come to see me for an...
Today we're going to take a deeper dive into the anatomy and mechanics of shoulder (dys)function that can lead to pain with over head...
As promised, this week we're going to look into some exercises that will help reduce the tension and pain that has increased since...
I'd like to talk today about one of the most common things that brings people to my clinic: shoulder pain. These patients are office...
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting back into running. As a result, I’ve started to have some left knee pain after activity. This...
I've been spending a ton of time this summer in the park on my slackline. Let's be honest, there's not much else to do in Toronto at this...
One of the positives that I’ve been able to take out of this pandemic is that it finally pushed me to start teaching myself how to play...
I recently watched a series of lectures about Pain Education on Embodia that were presented by Carolyn Vandyken from Pelvic Health...
Here we have another patient story that I'm very happy to share. I started working with our patient, a male in his early 40's, six months...