If you want to improve your posture and avoid that ever creeping hunchback look, holding a vertical frame is achieved by balancing out your upper body via increasing your upper back strength and stretching out the front of the body so you can stand tall. To get the most benefits of balancing the relationship between…
Being mindful is when one maintains an active and open focus to the present moment. Consistent awareness of our thoughts, feelings, senses of the body, and the environment that surrounds us is the key to awakening and acceptance. It is important that as we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings, we avoid judging them,…
Network Spinal Analysis (NSA), also known as Network Chiropractic, is a modality of chiropractic care that regards the human body as a whole, integrated system, and aims to tap in to the body’s natural abilities to heal itself. It is unique and remarkable for the fact that the ‘crack!’ that many people associate with chiropractic…
As many people turn to a registered massage therapist for relief from headaches, it’s common for them to indicate that they’re suffering from a migraine headache. It’s understandable because the term ‘migraine’ is often the mistaken go-to label for a ‘really bad headache’, but in fact, there are different types of headaches, and it’s important…
There are alternative treatments for coronary artery disease that consist of making lifestyle changes that can improve the health of your heart. Consistent physical activity and wise decisions about the foods you eat will afford you control over whether you develop CAD or whether existing CAD leads to a heart attack. Like any muscle, the…
Stress is a common and normal response to things that happen in every day life that make us feel threatened or unbalanced in some way. Upon sensing danger, whether it’s real or imagined, our body reacts by enacting an automatic process called ‘fight, flight, or freeze’, otherwise known as the stress response. When working properly,…
Many of your body’s systems rely on minerals for proper functioning, not the least of which is potassium; one of the key electrolytes in your body. Along with another electrolyte, sodium, potassium plays a vital role in the regulation of fluid levels in the body. This maintenance of electrolyte balance manages blood pressure and proper…
The elderly population has specific needs that massage therapy can address by involving active or passive movement of the joints and muscles to relieve pain, increase blood flow, and increase range of motion. A Vancouver Registered Massage Therapist will employ techniques to manipulate the soft tissues of the body to achieve these goals. This approach…
Network Spinal Analysis is a form of practice based on chiropractic care practiced exclusively by Doctors of Chiropractic. These professionals combine clinical assessments of spinal refinement with the patient’s self assessment of wellness and life changes.