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Knee Ligament Injuries: Looped Band Bridges
This exercise helps to strengthen and rehab the knee when you have a sprained ligament that is causing weakness and a decrease in use and function. Wrap a looped resistance band around your thighs just above your knees. Engage the core muscles below the belly button by pulling them inwards while you keep breathing. Ensure…
Pregnancy, Exercise & Massage Therapy
FEEL YOUR BEST Let us start by reviewing the facts; 40-42 weeks is 10 months, not 9. However, the amazing journey to motherhood can actually comprise a year-long (or more!) period of metamorphosis. The question I hear repeatedly from patients during their pregnancy, (including the 3 months post partum ‘trimester’) is: “Are Exercise and Massage…
6 Stretches for Sciatica Pain Relief
6 Stretches for Sciatica Pain Relief Sciatic nerve pain can be so excruciating and debilitating that you don’t even want to get off the couch. Common causes of sciatica can include a ruptured disk, a narrowing of the spine canal called spinal stenosis, and injury. The sciatic nerve runs down the spine and branches off,…
Anterior Hip Pain: Femoral Nerve Glides Sidelye
If you have a dull ache, tingling, loss of sensation in the front of your hip area or weakness into your knee, this exercise may help. Lie on your side with the affected hip on top. Have your low back in some extension at the start in the rest position. Then, flatten the lower back…
Ankle Sprain: Strengthening Stabilizer Muscles
It’s generally good to get your ankle moving after you’ve sprained it. How much time you wait depends on whether how bad you sprained it with the amount of swelling you have, whether you can weight bear on it or if there’s a fracture involved . If you’re unsure, consult your local Physiotherapist before doing…
Sciatica
Sciatica is not actually a specific diagnosis, but actually a symptom of another underlying cause. Sciatica refers to the pain that is produced in response to pressure on the sciatic nerve, which runs from your lower back (or lumbar spine) down to your buttocks, hip and lower limb. Characteristics of sciatic pain: – Pain that…