The other day, Karen was in for her regular visit. She had been away on vacation and expressed that she had fulfilled one of her bucket list items as she had visited the Bay of Fundy and stood on the ocean floor. One of the things that made me think of is the pull of the moon on the water …
In July of this year a study was published in the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation in which Forward Head Posture (FHP) was shown to affect information processing and integration and less efficient skill-related physical fitness. Why this is important to note is because often as we age, we think that our bodies are not keeping up like they used to …
When patients come in for their appointments I usually ask them “how are you today?” Or “what’s new?” I’m not just being polite. I’m listening to their responses and “reading between the lines”. Tuesday morning this past week, I heard many responses and what most of them had in common was that they were stories. “I’m not good at making …
“We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.” ~ Carl Jung ‘Outgrowing the problem’ is really about expanding your mind and energy to a place where the problem becomes insignificant. Outgrowing the problem is based in neurology: creating new habits create new connections in …
The other day Karen was in. She has been dealing with a lot of tension, pain and stiffness in her pelvis and hips. She finds it difficult to walk and ambulate. As I assessed her on the table I could feel that the tension and pain that she was feeling was deep in her groin, pelvis and hips. And yet …
Last week we began an exploration of the art of well being. This week I’d like to continue by looking at some pitfalls that we all fall into at various times in our lives. These pitfalls can become blindspots. When we’re Discovering we tend to focus on what’s not working. Obviously if you’re going to address what’s not working, you …
Many who come to the Happy Spine wonder, “what the heck do they do there? They use such a gentle touch (not always:)) and I feel better, my body has healed and rebalanced and I even find that I’m sleeping better and taking better care of myself.” The approach we use isn’t limited to the physical application of a set …
If you looked at a human cell, you would see it has numerous parts called organelles. All these organelles have their different functions. And it is through these organelles working together that a cell can live and function. If they didn’t work together, the cell would not be able to do what it does. “Working together” When the different parts …
Karen was in the other day for her regular visit and she noted that after a year and a half of care, when she feels pain now, she feels it much more than she used to. She said this with a tone that implied a question: Why am I feeling pain more now? Shouldn’t it be the opposite? I went …
Mental health week began being observed in Canada in 1951. Since then, with our society becoming more complex, especially in interrelating, mental health challenges have grown. Our understanding of mental health has grown as well. Evolutionary biologists have posited that the human brain developed over thousands of years into the complex organ that it is today. And the mind has …
