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One of the most common reasons for inactivity is knee pain. You may notice pain when climbing stairs, bending, lifting or even performing simple everyday activities like emptying the dishwasher, vacuuming or going for a walk. Stiffness and pain are often most noticeable when you try to get out of bed in the morning or… Continue Reading Knee Pain

Most adults experience low back pain at some point in their lives. According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery this is the reality for 60-80 percent of the population. Commonly, low back pain is the result of muscle or ligament strain. However, for many people low back pain is also accompanied by leg pain… Continue Reading Safe at Home: Low Back Pain

Did you start 2021 with a New Year’s Resolution? It is estimated that about forty percent of people in North America partake in this yearly ritual. Resolutions have been around for about four thousand years and started out as a religious practice. Almost half of the New Year’s Resolutions made in 2019 included weight loss… Continue Reading Solutions for Lockdown Resolutions

A few months ago, a client told me how she broke her toe after accidentally kicking a portable vacuum. The doctor was smart to ask for a bone density test. It revealed that she was one of the 200 million women worldwide affected with osteoporosis. Most people dealing with low bone density have no idea… Continue Reading Safe at Home: Osteoporosis

Are daily activities getting to be a pain in the neck? Have you ever had the sensation of numbness or tingling in your hands or fingers when driving, gardening, playing pickleball or golfing? Did you know that sometimes shoulder, wrist and neck pain can be a direct result of poor posture? How is your posture?… Continue Reading Safe at Home: Straighten up

This is a story that I hear all too often… “I was out in the garden all day” or “I was golfing all afternoon”… when all of the sudden I felt this stabbing pain in my low back. If this sounds familiar, you may be dealing with SI Joint Pain. This affliction can be described… Continue Reading Safe at Home: The Sacroiliac Joint

Do you feel dizzy when you get up quickly? Or are you unsteady on your feet? If so, you may not feel safe practicing balance exercises at home. Today I want to introduce some simple balance exercises that can be performed in a chair. The balance system relies on three different senses. We need our… Continue Reading Safe at Home: Balance Rx

Have you ever wondered why we shiver when we are cold? The human body needs to keep a core temperature of about 98.6°F to prevent hypothermia. When you are chilly, tiny sensors in your skin send messages to your brain telling you to warm up. Your brain then sends messages to nerves all over your… Continue Reading Safe at Home: Shake It Up

Sometimes back pain comes from the back and sometimes it comes from the hip. Sometimes hip pain comes from the hip and sometimes it comes from the back. Like the chicken and the egg, the mystery of hip related back pain is difficult to unravel. Back pain is the second most common reason for workers… Continue Reading Shooting from the Hip!

I had to replace my car last year. My old car was difficult to navigate and if I hit a bump it would pull hard to the right. I should have taken it in immediately to be checked but I was busy and kept putting it off. By the time I brought the car to… Continue Reading Safe at Home: Shoulders