Health Blog Category: Natural Pain Relief
Do You Know the Importance of Stretching After Exercise?
Stretching After Exercise Can Improve Your Health and Decrease Your Risk of Injury!
Have you decided to skip stretching after exercise? After a good workout it may be tempting to just hit the couch and take it easy.
Your workout, however, isn’t quite finished. A proper cool down is necessary and this would include different types of stretching.
Some people think that stretching is an unnecessary part of exercising.
Read full blogIs Persistent Back Pain Bothering You? Check with a PT to See if it’s a Herniated Disc
Do You Know if Your Back Pain is From a Herniated Disc?
Do you seem to have trouble performing even simple everyday activities due to severe back or neck pain?
Do you have strange neurological symptoms in your arms or legs that you simply cannot account for?
Has your spine never quite worked as it should since you experienced a recent accident?
You may be struggling with a condition known as a herniated disc.
Read full blogDid You Know You Could Relieve Your Pain and Inflammation – Just By Changing Your Diet?
Find the Benefits of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet by Consulting with a PT!
Who says that getting healthy has to be a chore? You’ll be delighted to learn that simply by modifying your diet, you can get chronic pain and inflammation under better control (or possibly even avoid those symptoms entirely). Better yet, the diet you choose doesn’t have to taste like a punishment for previous bad behavior.
Our physiotherapist typically recommends dietary changes alongside exercises and other natural techniques as part of a holistic physiotherapy program.
Read full blogConsult with a Physiotherapist to Find Relief for Your Hip and Knee Pains
Looking for Relief? Physiotherapy Has You Covered
Does nagging hip and knee pain keep you from completing everyday tasks with ease? If you’ve been living with chronic aches and pains in these areas, you may benefit from regular physiotherapy treatment.
A skilled physiotherapist can help to improve your daily quality of life by targeting your problem areas to decrease pain and boost mobility over time.
If you or a loved one experiences pain and discomfort when getting up from a chair, walking down to the corner store, or going up and down the stairs—there’s a good chance that physiotherapy can help to ease your pain, stiffness, and weakness.
Read full blogLiving With Aches and Pains? Try Changing Your Diet
Did You Know You Could Find Pain Relief with a Simple Diet Change
A physiotherapist can help you identify ways to improve your nutrition to help reduce your aches and pains.
If you are what you eat, what are you based on your last meal? If your answer was full of saturated fat and processed sugars, it may be time to listen to what your body is telling you.
Read full blogStress-Related Headaches Can be Difficult to Live With -Try Physiotherapy
Did You Know Physiotherapy Could Help You Combat Your Stress-Related Headaches?
Daily stresses in life can add up to the point where you feel physically ill. This is what happens when stress-related headaches occur – it’s your body’s way of demonstrating a physical reaction to overwhelming stress.
While pain-management drugs can help in the short term, they won’t fix the overall issue. The next time you have a stress-related headache, don’t reach for the aspirin.
Read full blogThe 5 Simple Steps to Relieving Pain and Increasing Energy
Pain can be extremely limiting, as it can hold you back from many of the physical activities you’d like to do. However, there are luckily some quick and effective ways to relieve your pain and increase your energy, so you can get back to doing the physical activities you love. By incorporating physiotherapy into your physical routine, you can achieve your goals as fast and painlessly as you’ve always dreamed! Contact Nova Physiotherapy today to find out more about how our physiotherapy services can help you.
Read full blogFind Better Balance By Strengthening Your Core
Core strength training is a powerful and effective part of physiotherapy. Your core is comprised of a set of muscles that anchor your center of gravity. This allows you to maintain your constant balance, whether you are moving or standing still. By strengthening your core with physiotherapy treatments, you can improve your balance and correct any stability issues you may be facing. To find out more about how our core strength training treatments can benefit you, give Nova Physiotherapy a call today!
Read full blogPhysiotherapy: A Natural and Easy Solution for Shoulder Pain
Your shoulders are a complex part of your body – they are your most flexible and movable joints, consisting of multiple bones, muscles, and tendons. They provide you with a great amount of mobility, allowing you to perform many of your daily tasks, in addition to several exercise regimens. However, this also means that there are many ways that the shoulders can become injured, resulting in pain and lack of mobility.
Shoulder pain can be experienced due to a multitude of different causes, and there are several steps you can take to ease your discomfort.
Read full blogIs Arthritis Paining You? Physiotherapy Can Help
If you have arthritis, you know how debilitating it can be. It affects millions of people and is the most commonly reported chronic illness across the nation. Arthritis is a disorder of the joints that causes them to become inflamed. The inflammation causes the pain and stiffness that you feel, and it can result in a loss of movement if the joints become too inflamed. There are over 100 different types of arthritis, containing monoarthritis (where only one joint is affected) and oligoarthritis (where multiple joints are affected.) Some of the most common forms of arthritis are osteoarthritis, which develops from “wear and tear” of cartilage, and rheumatoid arthritis, which develops from overactive immune systems.
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