YOUR HEALTH. YOUR WELLNESS.

A New Approach to Understanding Depression

Highlights Even though sadness is a natural part of the human experience, the feelings of sadness or depression are short-lived. In the...

Exercise and the Brain/Nervous System Connection

Introduction: As a consequence of our current lifestyle choices, including sedentary lifestyle, consumption of non-nutrient rich foods,...

Katerina Slater, Personal Fitness Trainer: work with her in studio, online, or at home.

My name is Kat, and I’ve been working as a Personal Trainer for nearly three years now. I also have a background in Psychology (having...

Leg Exercise Critical to Brain and Nervous System Health

Ground-breaking research in Frontiers in Neuroscience indicates that neurological health is dependent not only on signals from the brain...

Why sitting negatively impacts your health

What is this video telling you: The longer you don’t move, the more agitated your body becomes. Brief periods of sitting help us recover...

Time to Rethink Persistent Pain by Professor Lorimer Mosely

https://www.tamethebeast.org/

Evidence-Based Therapy Defined

Evidence-based practice in massage therapy is used to provide effective therapeutic treatment by optimizing the decision-making process...

FASCIA and the PAIN CONNECTION

HIGHLIGHTS: Every structure in the body is wrapped with fascia, including blood vessels, nerves, viscera, meninges, bones, and muscles...

The Mind-body Connection to Improve Health & Wellness

Relaxation techniques are important to master if you want to reduce & manage stress and improve your quality of life. Relaxation is a...

The Evolution of Low Back Pain Treatments

The prescription to treat low back pack has changed over the years. For example, for severe back pain one week’s bed rest was the...

Understanding Fascia

Fascia is a thin, membranous, highly innervated connective tissue, primarily made up of collagen. It allows for fluidity of movement. ...

Did You Know STRESS Can Impact Your Health?

Stress can be a physical, mental, or emotional factor causing bodily or mental tension & dysfunction. The result of stress can be from a...

Registered massage therapists play key role in B.C.'s health-care universe

Executive director of the Registered Massage Therapists' Association of B.C., Brenda Locke, wants to clear up some misconceptions about...

Therapeutic Massage Effective Treatment to relieve Jaw Pain from TMJD

Firstly, the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the joint that connects the jaw to the temporal bone of the skull. TMJD (temporomandibular...

Suffering from Text Neck Syndrome?

This buzz word is the term that describes neck pain and subsequent damage sustained by overuse of looking down at your cell phone,...

Massage Therapy for Soft-Tissue Injuries

Soft-tissue injury occurs when damage is done to the muscles, tendons, and ligaments in the body. Common examples include sprains,...