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Caregiver Pharmacy Support

It can be difficult to be a caregiver and manage multiple or complex medications for a loved one. It is important to ensure medications are taken appropriately to help maintain good health. A visiting pharmacist provides personal support with regular medication delivery and home consultations. The pharmacist reviews a client’s prescription drugs and over the counter medications to advise if there are any drug interactions and makes adjustments as necessary. This level of support can reduce emergency room visits and hospital stays and results in strong, trusting relationships between clients, caregivers and pharmacists. The visiting pharmacist also provides seamless care for hospital discharge patients and works closely with other health professionals to deliver a high level of care to the client. Care is tailored to specific individual needs such as assisting with blood pressure readings, adding medications as needed to adherence packaging and making changes in an efficient manner.

Teresa Giesbrecht, Care at Home Pharmacy
www.careathomepharmacy.ca

The Procrastinator’s Challenge

How many projects are on your back burner? If you’re like most people, that back burner is chock-full of tasks that have been in the planning phase for far too long. Getting stalled projects off the ground can be difficult. A plan of action is what’s called for:

1) Set a specific date and time aside for your project, allowing time for prep and cleanup.

2) A week previous, anticipate and gather all required supplies.

3) Enlist help! There are times in our life when we all could use a hand – that extra push is often what we need to see a project through to a successful conclusion.

4) Put on some great tunes, have your beverage-of-choice on hand and get to work.

5) You’ve done it – enjoy your results!

Done & Done Family Concierge Service
www.doneanddone.ca

Better with Balance

Balance plays a key role in sports performance, injury prevention, and the activities of daily living. Good balance is a fine coordination of muscles, nerves, the brain, the inner ear (vestibular system), and your eyesight. Every move you make sparks rapid-fire communication between these systems, to keep you upright. Any injuries to your muscle-skeletal system and in fact simply aging, can affect your balance. Balance exercises enhance the mind-body connection to keep you safe and injury free. Our physiotherapists can assist you in instruction of exercises to maximize your balance.

Nicole Marier, Action Physiotherapy & Wellness Clinic
www.actionphysio.net

Book Club: Gut

The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ. By Giulia Enders. The gut’s nervous system, food intolerances, allergies, gut bacteria and the science of bad breath are detailed, suggesting the body’s “most underrated organ” plays a greater role in our overall wellbeing than we might have otherwise thought. Throughout the book, Enders points out, it is the gut that most frequently presents us with some of life’s most pressing questions. Pick up a copy at your local book store.

Clean Eating: Easy Healthy Borscht

Ingredients:

4 cups of organic beef broth
1 cup diced carrot
½ cup garden peas
1 cup chopped green beans
1 cup chopped potatoes
2 cups beets with stems and leaves diced
1 onion chopped
4 fresh sprigs of dill
2 Tbsp Italian seasoning
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Combine all ingredients into a crockpot and cook on low for 6-7 hours. Alternately, cook on top of the stove until the vegetables are soft enough to eat. Serve topped with sour cream.

 

Burn Fat, Don’t Abuse Carbs

Many leading scientists, medical professionals, and nutrition experts agree the ketosis lifestyle is the pinnacle of health and wellbeing. Ketosis is a natural metabolic state where the body burns fat for most of its energy rather than carbohydrates. Fat offers the body 225% more energy than carbohydrates. Today, most people have sugar-burning bodies, not fat-burning bodies. Fat-burning bodies typically experience better energy and fewer cravings due to balanced blood sugar levels. Typically, without several days of fasting or sticking to unrealistic diet plans, our bodies cannot reach ketosis and take advantage of this energy. So unless you have serious discipline and nowhere to go, nutritional ketosis has been believed to be out of reach… until now.

David Warfield, ForeverGreen Ketopia
www.warf.fgxpress.com

The Procrastinator’s Challenge

www.doneanddone.ca

How many projects are on your back burner?

If you’re like most people, that back burner is chock-full of tasks that have been in the planning phase for far too long. Getting stalled projects off the ground can be difficult. A plan of action is what’s called for:

1) Set a specific date & time aside for your project, allowing time for prep and cleanup.

2) A week previous, anticipate and gather all required supplies.

3) Enlist help! There are times in our life when we all could use a hand – that extra push is often what we need to see a project through to a successful conclusion.

4) Put on some great tunes, have your beverage-of-choice on hand and Get to Work.

5) You’ve done it – enjoy your results!

Done & Done Family Concierge Service
www.doneanddone.ca

Acupuncture

The ancient art of acupuncture works by stimulating our body’s neuroendocrine system to produce its own natural pain relieving chemicals, endorphins and serotonins, which help the body to heal itself. Stimulation occurs when fine needles are inserted into specific places on the body, known as acupoints.

Acupuncture is often used as an adjunct to physiotherapy treatment to alleviate both chronic and acute pain, swelling, muscle spasm and even headaches. It is used widely in sports physiotherapy, and is used to encourage and support a healthy active lifestyle. Acupoints can be picked to target various muscles, joints, promote energy or relaxation and more. Medical studies comparing physiotherapy treatment plans with and without using acupuncture found that those who had acupuncture, had faster results and longer lasting benefits. If pain is limiting your function in work, life or play, consider acupuncture as a possible adjunct to a good physiotherapy and exercise program.

Kristi Hunter, Prairie Trail Physiotherapy
www.prairietrailphysio.ca

Aromatic Treatment

An Aromatic Hot Stone Treatment is a natural therapy in which warmed stones are positioned on parts of the body to maximize the therapeutic benefit. Typically, a therapist allows the heated stones to rest on trigger points in your body before beginning the actual treatment. An essential oil blend mixed with a carrier oil is then applied directly to the skin and various massage strokes are performed using the hot stones in the Therapists hands. What are the benefits of an Aromatic Hot Stone Treatment? They are as follows: Muscle Relaxation – Pain Relief – Improved Circulation –Stress Release – Toxin Removal – Calms Emotions. The heat from the stones as well as the Essential Oil Blend helps your mind, body and spirit enjoy being cradled in Mother Nature’s arms.

Sue Mazur, Aromatic Earth Aromatherapy
www.aromaticearth.ca

Iliotibial Band Friction Syndrome

The iliotibial band is a strong band of connective tissue running from the pelvis to the tibia, just below the knee. Iliotibial Band Friction Syndrome (ITBFS) is an overuse injury caused by excessive rubbing of the band against a bony bump along the outside of the knee when the band is tight. Pain is generally felt along the outside of the knee and is aggravated by activities that involve repeated bending and straightening of the knee, such as running. It generally begins as a dull ache along the side of the knee that starts near the end of a session and disappears when you stop. If left unattended it will start earlier and get more intense. ITBFS generally does not get better on its own if the cause is not addressed and you continue to exercise. The best course of action is to get assessed by a sports physiotherapist.

Yvonne DeCaire, Action Physiotherapy & Wellness Clinic
www.actionphysio.net

Enjoy the present moment… it’s all you’ve got!

Living in the present moment means being fully present in the here and now instead of dwelling on the past or being anxious or worried about the future. It’s all about staying open to our senses paying attention to what you are doing and letting go of expectations, anticipations and outcomes. Most of us experience continuous distractions and ongoing clutter in our minds. By embracing the present, we can experience life in the moment instead of thinking about it from our head. Becoming more present makes us more open, playful, creative, attuned and connected to ourselves, each other, our intuition and environment. Staying in the present is about breathing in full life force into our being. When we can let go of old pain, hurt and resentments of our past it allows room for us to live more fully in the present with joy, spontaneity and an open heart.

D’Arcy Bruning-Haid, M.A. Counselling
www.souls-journey.com