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Find Relief for Your Hip and Knee Pain with Physical Therapy
Jun 5th 2019Your hips and knees provide complex movements for the body by incorporating multiple joints, muscles, and tendons. When there is damage to any of those joints, muscles, or tendons, it can make moving the hips or knees increasingly difficult.
Luckily, with the help of physical therapy, you can find relief for your hip and knee pain, in addition to decreasing your chances of sustaining further injury in the future. For more information on how our services can benefit you, schedule a consultation today!
Read full blogTrain Better: Should I Run if I’m Hurt?
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Read full blogTrain Better: How to Run Faster
One of the beautiful things about running is that within a single sport, there are many ways to change up your goals, workouts, or mental focus. While some people love running long, others may choose to challenge themselves to see how fast they can do a shorter distance. One of our favourite distances to play with is the 5k. This spicy, quick, but not-quite-a-full-on-sprint is arguably even harder to train for and to race than a longer race – primarily because the degree of mental grit and resilience required to push hard for that duration of time is TOUGH.
Read full blogWhat You Need to Know About: Shin Splints
If you’re reading this, you probably have, or have had shin splints. This pesky injury is the Number One Most Common running injury, and tends to affect runners who are a little newer.
As an aside – I LOVE treating shin splints. They really can be a royal pain, but I find they resolve quickly and predictably with the proper education, exercises, and small movement adjustments.
Shin splints are the common term for pain that affects the lower bone region (tibia) of the leg.
Read full blogWhat You Need to Know About: Stress Fractures
The dreaded word. The dreaded runner’s injury. Stress fracture. Many of us are familiar with the concept of a stress fracture, but what does it really mean, how can we best treat it, and most importantly, how can we prevent it in the first place?
When we walk, run, lift weights, and exercise, our muscles and bones absorb the forces of these movements.
Read full blogThink About It: Mental Strategies for Runners
Maybe it’s the cooler weather and zipped-up hoodies. Maybe it’s all of the warm steamy bone broth that we’ve been obsessed with lately. But with race week coming up in Toronto, we’re brain jamming one of our fave topics – mental state and flow.
There’s a whole lot of yack about flow on our website. We love flow. Humans love flow.
Read full blogWhat You Need to Know About: Iliotibial Band Syndrome (ITB)
The new year is about reflection, and we’re not ones to break tradition! We thought we’d take a moment and reflect on a post from 2017 that covered a topic we find ourselves discussing often. The topic: ITB, specifically, ‘What is Iliotibial Band Syndrome’, you asked for a deeper dive into the subject and we listened.
Read full blogWhat You Need to Know About: Runner’s Knee
Runner’s knee, aka its more scientific name, patellofemoral pain syndrome is, as the name implies, incredibly common among runners. So common in fact that we receive many questions regarding just what exactly it is. We thought that this week we would dive into the details of just what runner’s knee is (and isn’t), how to treat it and most importantly how to prevent it from happening!
Read full blogWhat You Need to Know About: Achilles Pain
You’ve been feeling it for a few runs now, a tightness that’s hard to describe and it’s getting worse. You’ve googled the symptoms and are disappointed to discover, it’s your achilles. The truth is, injuries can happen to anyone but it’s the way you treat it that makes all the difference! Read the full article to learn all about the achilles.
Read full blogLearn About: Shoe Drops
Interested in learning how the drop of your shoe may be affecting your running efficiency or injury recovery? This week’s blog focuses on all things drop – what it is and what it means for your running.
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