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Find effective ways to deal with a crick in the neck. Learn about causes, symptoms, and home remedies to ease pain and improve mobility.

Explore deep knots in shoulder blades: symptoms, causes, and treatments. Find effective techniques to relieve tension and improve comfort in daily…

Discover the essentials of Turtle Neck Syndrome: its causes, symptoms, and solutions. Learn effective strategies to alleviate discomfort and improve…

The best knee wrap for Baker’s cyst combines compression, ice and stability. Here are three types of knee wraps that are worth considering.

Knowing how to recognize and treat a pulled gluteus maximus can help you stay active and healthy. However, it’s important to understand that muscle…

Get expert advice on recovery from Hypertonic Pelvic Floor with the help of proper physical therapy in this quick guide.

Learn the difference between Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage, their benefits, and suitability for different needs.

Get expert tips and advice on recovery from a car accident with the help of proper physical therapy in this quick guide.

Things to avoid with degenerative disc disease include heavy lifting, bending, twisting, or reaching, as these activities can worsen symptoms.

The ball of your foot, the pad just behind your toes, is vulnerable to different injuries and conditions which can result in discomfort or pain.

Neck pain after sleeping is not an uncommon experience for many individuals. One of the most prevalent reasons is inappropriate sleeping positions.

Sure, it’s easy to lower your body down to the floor. Getting back up again? That’s another challenge altogether.

If you are in pain and wonder if tendinitis is the cause, don’t hesitate to consult with a registered physiotherapist.

Active Release Technique (ART) helps to alleviate pain and restore your range of motion from a sports or overuse injury, or chronic pain.

Knee pain is a signal your body is sending to let you know that something is wrong. Don’t exacerbate the injury by ignoring signals.

Even though you may not be able to achieve an ideal setup for working at home, do what you can to help your body stay healthy. Here are some tips…

Many people associate physical therapy with injury. You see your physical therapist when you’ve sprained an ankle playing tennis or injured a knee…

Neck, back & shoulders hurting? Here are some of the most common new mother aches & pains and what you can do about them.

Exercise generally strengthens, muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones by breaking down old tissue and allowing new tissue to grow. However, if tissue…

Air travel is a fact of life for many of us, whether because it’s our livelihood, our work demands it or we want to explore places that are most…

Along with warehouse work come back injuries. Canada’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), the organization that handles workplace injury…

While you don’t literally carry the world on your own shoulders, figuratively, you may feel as if you do. Life is full of stress and our shoulders…

At one time or another, you’ve undoubtedly muttered to yourself, “What a pain in the neck.” Of course, you’re generally referring to an annoyance,…

A shoulder separation refers to an injury to the top of the shoulder where the front of the shoulder blade (acromion) attaches to the collarbone…

Drivers and pedestrians both are at more risk for car accidents than usual during this time of year, and it’s not only the road conditions that make…

This year, don’t give in to all of these distractions and excuses: Resist! Your body and your mind will thank you, because you’ll be fighting back…

We’ve all heard people say it, no matter how impolite it may sound, “What a pain in the butt!” However, anyone who is suffering from piriformis…

Coccydynia is an injury to the tailbone, which is a multi-segmented bone that sits at the base of the spine immediately above the buttocks. The…