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Who Says Moms don’t do Heavy Lifting?
When my daughter was born she was 22 inches long. Nearly two feet. How does that fit in there? My son wasn’t quite so long but was nine pounds and three ounces. Both long babies and heavy babies present unique challenges. For instance, it can be difficult to find a...
Listen to Those Mommy Instincts
All of us moms have had them – those moments where you just know something is wrong, when your mommy instincts kick in and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Last year my daughter became quite ill. At first her symptoms were brushed off as a minor viral...
Addressing Men’s Health Care Avoidance
In my practice I rarely see men whose visit to the clinic is initiated solely by them. They are much more often there at the suggestion (and indeed sometimes coercion) of some woman of influence in their lives. Yes we wives, partners, sisters, and co-workers have...
Sports Injuries in Young Girls
Studies show that young girls involved in sport are four to six times more likely to injure the anterior cruciate ligament (an important stability ligament in the knee) than boys. Why is this? Many factors have been hypothesized including muscular imbalances,...
Physiotherapy for Young Competitive Athletes
More and more children are playing competitive sports at a young age now. Sometimes kids as young as seven or eight years old are playing the same sport five or six times a week. This takes its toll on a developing body. When children get injured we tend to think they...
Your Pelvis Needs More Than Just a Floor
Many women who have had children experience what we tend to refer to as “pelvic floor issues”. You know what I’m talking about – when laughing, coughing and heaven forbid sneezing in public becomes an exercise in how to subtly hold it together when you know there’s...
The Importance of Stability
Some years ago I was watching the women’s giant slalom event at the winter Olympics. That particular day conditions were quite icy and there had been some talk of rescheduling the event. In the end they did, but not before several competitors fell. Big time. As in...
Acute Back Injuries are Avoidable
“I just bent over to pick up my sock off the floor and I couldn’t straighten up. I’ve been in excruciating back pain since.” A lot of us know someone with a similar story. Of course, picking up a sock off the floor doesn’t cause a severe injury. It’s just the straw...
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