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Muscle tone 💪 is the amount of tension or resistance to movement in our muscles. This helps us hold our bodies upright while sitting or standing and contributes to our ability to control the speed and amount of movement 🚶‍️ we can achieve. When muscles are at their healthiest, they are never fully relaxed. Children […]

Upper crossed syndrome (UCS) happens when the muscles in the neck, shoulder, and chest become unbalanced ⚖️. This means some muscles are too weak and some are too tight. Usually, these muscles become unbalanced due to poor posture, bending, twisting, and repetitive motion. 😳  What Does Upper Crossed Syndrome Look Like? Believe it or not,

It may feel like exercising after giving birth to a child is the last thing you want to do 🙅‍♀️. However, postpartum exercise is one of the best things new mums can do for their bodies.  Why we should exercise postpartum Exercise not only promotes weight loss (especially if we want to get our pre-pregnancy

All too often we have clients coming to us saying, “I just want to be able to lift my arm!” 😢 Usually, this means we’ve got a case of frozen shoulder on our hands. 🤔  Frozen shoulder is a condition where the ligaments in your shoulder have started to stick to the bone, causing your

If you’ve been struggling with 💪 tennis elbow, it’s possible that you are doing something to trigger or worsen the problem without knowing it. But what is tennis elbow?  Simply put, tennis elbow is pain and inflammation or micro tears in the tendons around the outer elbow from overuse. It can vary from being a

Back pain is just that, a pain! 😥 It doesn’t only make everyday movements difficult; it can also be quite irritating if it’s persistent or occurs regularly. 💢  It may seem like all you can do to soothe your pain is to take pain medication 💊. But we’re here to tell you that there are

Continuing from our previous newsletter in December, there are many ways you can support your spine every day, and it is often simpler than you think! 😃  Lift The Right Way Lifting heavy objects 📦 the wrong way is a common cause of back pain. The best way to avoid hurting your spine is to

Almost every movement you make originates from your spine. Quite literally, your spine is the backbone of your ability to move️, sleep and properly function 💪. The health of your musculoskeletal system, which your spine forms a large part of, works together to support the production of blood cells, your internal organs, heat generation, and

One of the greatest joys in life is being a parent. 🌈  Being a parent means we’ll be lifting and carrying our children regularly – or at least for the first few years of their lives. However, when done incorrectly, picking up our kids can wreak havoc on our backs. That’s why it’s important to

6 Things Chiropractic Care Can Help With Chiropractors work on your musculoskeletal system. This is really just a fancy way of saying we work on the structure of your body, mainly your spine. And seeing that just about everything in your body is connected to your spine either through nerves, tissue, or muscle, there’s very little