4 Myths About Back Pain
How much do you really know about back pain? Enjoy these good-to-know facts surrounding myths about pain in your body and what it could mean for you. Myth 1: Back Pain is a Normal Part of Aging Fact. Just because you’re adding more candles to your birthday cake...
What is Balance and how Do You Train It?
Balance is the act of maintaining your centre of mass over your base of support. Without getting into an in-depth physics lesson, the centre of mass is the point at which all your mass is evenly distributed around a single point. It is the point in which, if pushed...
Healthy Harvest: 5 Ways to Stay Active This Fall
1. Prepare meals using local, fresh produce As the fall approaches and the cold weather creeps in it is tempting to gravitate towards warm comfort foods. Instead of the calorically dense fast food options, support your local farms and opt for “harvest” fruits and...
Going Back to School? Avoid Lower Back Pain and Injuries
Lower Backpain and injuries that come from carrying backpacks and workbags are a common thing we see at Absolute Rehab. With September just around the corner, many children, teens and young adults will be headed back to school. Before the textbooks and school...
Making Gardening an Enjoyable Experience
Summer is upon us once again, which means so is another gardening season and for many Canadians associated back, neck and extremity pain. Many of us fail to recognize the relatively high-intensity activity gardening can be on our bodies. Raking, hoeing, bending and...
Are You Injuring Yourself Without Knowing It?
Sedentary jobs requiring you to sit or stand for prolonged periods of time are more detrimental to your body’s physical health in the long term than a job with more strenuous physical demands. Studies show that the amount of stress and strain on the body dramatically...