Blog
29 Dec 2021
SHOCKWAVE
Have you heard that noisy machine in the therapist treatment rooms? Maybe your dog has gotten to experience it as well! We’re talking about Shockwave! It’s a therapy as exciting as it sounds and we think you’ll want to learn more!! There are actually two different kinds of shockwave – Focused and Radial. Focused is a dialed down therapeutic version that stems from lithotripsy (i.e. how they blast away kidney stones or the lik... More
28 Nov 2021
Why Stretching Isn’t Always the Answer
By Erin Lanting, BSc, MScPTA story I hear often from my clients is that they always feel tight in a certain area yet stretching doesn’t seem to help. In fact, in some cases they feel stretching has made things worse. Why is this? Wouldn’t it make sense that if a muscle feels “tight” we should stretch it? Not necessarily...lets dive in. What exactly is muscle tightness? What we perceive as muscle tightness is known as hypertonicity or in other words, increased muscle ... More
30 Oct 2021
A Low Back Stretch
By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT Here’s another one for you! Got back pain? Maybe this will help! ... More
