Many popular workouts that aim to strengthen your arms, legs, and abs give short shrift to many of the muscles that form your body’s core (the group of muscles that form the sturdy central link connecting your upper and lower body). Strong core muscles are essential to improving performance in almost any sport — and are the secret to sidestepping debilitating back pain.

Extremely sore muscles a day or two after a core workout means you probably overdid it and might need to dial down your workout a bit. Next time, try to finish just one full set of each exercise in the workout. You might also do fewer repetitions (reps) of the exercises you find especially hard. Once you can do reps without much soreness, build strength by adding one more rep of the harder exercises in each session until you’re doing the full number of reps comfortably. Then try adding a second set.

Delayed-onset muscle soreness is a normal response to working your muscles. Usually, it peaks 24 to 48 hours after a workout before gradually easing, then disappearing entirely in another day or so. But if you experience sudden, sharp, or long-lasting pain, check with yourPhysio; include https://passs.co/-toml9-GJo8 in your iPhone Passbook.

Stress is a problem in the workforce, and part of the reason is the posture we assume while working at a desk. The seated position creates compression in the pelvis and the computer posture creates a collapse of the upper body. This dramatically affects the way we breathe, starving the body of the oxygen, the most vital nutrient our cells need to thrive.

The Block Therapy Chair Class is an amazing solution to stress. This 3-day, in office class will give real, transformative results and provide a lifelong approach to health and wellbeing. The results are not only for the individual’s health, but will translate to more efficient, productive employees. The common issue’s related to stress and immobility will be addressed and simple, proactive solutions that can be done in your chair will be the focus.

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If your back is bothering you consistently, at work, at home in recreation…you may be moving wrong, or just not moving enough!

Four great strategies to ‘get up, and get moving’ are:

• Do easy stretches at work;  Get out of your chair, do some simple lunges in place; keeping the back straight and the movement always comfortable.
• Try a yoga or Pilate’s class; get educated as to what you can do on your own. Learn the proper technique as to prevent injury and strengthen your core.
• Lastly, dust off those weights, grab some walking/ski poles and get out in the snow for a hike; the uneven ground will challenge you and get you moving!

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Chris – Concourse Physiotherapy
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Foot reflexology is a 5000-year-old form of massage that aids in the removal of toxins, pain and illness from the body through various points in the feet, hands, ears and eyes. For thousands of years, in several cultures around the world, reflexology has been looked at as a first line of defense for almost anything from general stress relief to back pain, sciatic issues, injuries, stroke effects, Cerebral Palsy, mood swings, blood pressure problems, blood sugar regulating, and many others. Through the use of a deep-tissue massage technique, one can also attain, from a cellular level, better overall strength and health as a whole. Reflexology not only benefits you emotionally, physically, mentally but spiritually as well.

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Fluid Isometrics Block Therapy is gaining momentum as people are excitedly sharing the benefits they are experiencing. Whether your issues are with health in general, healing of current or past injury or you need to rejuvenate from the exhaustion of life, this program will provide you the tools and understanding you need to move forward with your goals.

In the New Year, there will be 3 new locations offering Fluid Isometrics Block Therapy classes. We will be at the University of Manitoba, Seven Oaks Wellness Institute, and Yoga Center Winnipeg. We are thrilled to be able to make our classes more accessible with times and locations and of course, will continue offering our regular classes at St. Paul’s Anglican Church.

Make 2015 the year you discover and experience the amazing benefits so many people are talking about. Health, healing and rejuvenation are only a block away!

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This is a question often asked in our clinic and we commonly have two answers for our patients. Backs become injured when a high load (weight) is imposed on our back that exceeds its ability to deal with the single time lift. This would be the “push the car out of rut” example.

The other is repetitive stressors to our spine that have very light loads (weight) with little to no recovery between repetitions that cause the back to fail over time. This example being a worker who works at a pen factory and has to pick up a pen every 20 seconds to put it back on the conveyor belt. Both are equally harmful to your spine!

The fix? Strong core muscles and how fast those muscles respond!

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