Banded Half Kneeling Dorsiflexion With Dowel
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The Fixed vs. Growth Mindset And Impact On Your Pain
How does our mindset work and why is having a growth mindset important to your recovery? At the level of the individual, a growth mindset allows each person to embrace learning, to welcome challenges, mistakes, and feedback, and to understand the role of effort in creating talent. At the organizational level, a growth mindset is
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True Hip Flexor Stretch
The hip flexor stretch has become a very popular stretch in the fitness and sports performance world, and rightly so considering how many people live their lives in anterior pelvic tilt. However, this seems to be one of those stretches that we see a lot of people either performing incorrectly or too aggressively. Try the
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One Leg Kettlebell Deadlift
The one legged deadlift is a challenging exercise to perform and requires good core strength as well as balance and coordination. It is a progression of the two legged Kettlebell Deadlift.
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Kettlebell Deadlift
Deadlift benefits are numerous, ranging from improved athletic performance to muscle growth and increased strength. Once you learn proper deadlifting form, you can add it to your training plan and reap the rewards.
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Hip Flexor Kettlebell Release
A slightly unique way of releasing the Psoas (Hip Flexor) muscle. Give it a go!
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Why is positive emotion so important to your recovery?
Moments in people’s lives characterized by experiences of positive emotions—such as joy, interest, contentment, love, etc.—are moments in which they are not plagued by negative emotions, such as anxiety, sadness and anger which heighten our brains perception of pain. Consistent withthis, the overall balance of peoples’ positive to negative emotions has been shown to contribute
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Effective strategies to practice Gratitude daily
In part 1 of 2 of this series, we looked at 3 key reasons of how gratitude can positively affect your pain. In part 2, we look at simple, practical strategies to practice gratitude daily. 4 commonly used gratitude interventions Gratitude Journal: This can mean listing just five things for which you’re grateful every week.
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Gratitude and pain – are you counting your blessings?
Count your blessings. Be thankful. The message about gratitude can be heard these days, loud and clear. Being thankful is such an important practice to hold onto in this fast-paced world in which we live…simply noticing the things we are thankful of. However, it’s all well and good to know that gratitude ought to be
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Why is sleep so important to our health?
Sleep is linked to just about everything: focus, mental health, energy levels, productivity, happiness, stress, depression, eating habits, physical health, social interactions, and decision-making. Indeed, moderate sleep deprivation can decrease your performance as much as being legally intoxicated with alcohol. Yet, millions of adults don’t get enough sleep. And the solution is good sleep hygiene. 5 clinically
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The Side Bridge Row – Anti-Rotation Core Strength!
This exercise is an incredible, simple exercise to progress your core stability. The band is providing a force that one must constantly resist (the forward pull of the band). This teaches the core to stabilize dynamically while the upper body is moving – incredibly important for the development of all different kinds of movements in
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Core Stability & Back Pain
The muscles that surround our spine are considered the “core” of our body. It is composed of the abdominal muscles on your front and sides, the erector muscles of the back and even the larger muscles that span multiple joints (like the Lats and psoas muscles). Each one of these muscles must work together to
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Should We Completely Rest After An Injury?
Below is a quick summary on PAIN – and as pain is the number one reason as to why patients come to our clinics, an accurate understanding of pain is essential! What is pain? It is an output from the brain to halt what you are doing so the brain can scan the damage to your body.
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Landing And Knee Pain
Did you know that when landing from a jump your knees can experience a force that is up to 5 times your own body weight! There’s another thing. Seventy percent of ACL injuries occur in non-contact situations that involve poor landing patterns. Now that complicates things. The question becomes…. how should I be landing? It’s
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