Many people mistakingly quit rehab too early. Most of the time when people do this, they either don’t feel pain anymore or they see that their injury is ‘healed’ on imaging. It should go without saying that these two scenarios in and of themselves are fantastic outcomes. However, this is normally not the best place to stop working with your rehab professional. Far too often, we see people that stop at this point flare things back up when they get back to their activity. Or they keep having the problem recur every so often. We’ll explain why this happens and what you can be working on to avoid this cycle and unnecessary prolonging of your injury and sitting on the sidelines.

I’m going to try to put myself in your shoes. You’re doing what you love….maybe this is tennis, running, climbing, powerlifting, or some other awesome thing. This activity is everything for you, your mental well-being, and your motivation to continue to get after it! Who knows, maybe this activity even anchors the rest of your lifestyle…and without it your nutrition, sleep, and overall habits go down the drain too. But as long as you have the ability to do these things then you’re good!

Until you get injured…

We GET you.

You’re a runner, not a bodybuilder.

You love the stress relief and way your body and mind feel during and after a great run. The freedom that comes with the simplicity of lacing up your shoes and that’s all you need to get a good workout in. The satisfaction of seeing your run times improve and new distances unlocked.

MRI’s Are Amazing!

Don’t get us wrong, MRI’s help us identify serious problems and can be life saving when used to diagnose and guide surgical interventions. For example, MRI’s help us with…

Neurological Disorders: MRI is highly effective in imaging the brain and spinal cord, making it invaluable for diagnosing conditions such as brain tumours, multiple sclerosis, strokes, and various neurological disorders.

When it comes to your overall health most of us are well aware of the importance of nutrition. We know that certain foods offer a higher quality source of nutrition than others and that it is important to be selective of what we put in our bodies. We’ve realized the importance of helping people with their nutrition and this is why Dee our dietician, is focused on educating and guiding people through nutritional plans to allow for you to take control of your health.

‘Sciatica’ is a term that gets thrown around quite often but the reality is that sciatica is a catch all term for symptoms that go down your leg. Without getting into the weeds too much, we’d just like to point out that symptoms like that could usually benefit from seeing a professional such as a physiotherapist, who can make individual recommendations for you. However, in this blog post, we’ll give you an idea of how we approach sciatica at The Movement and teach you about how to move the nerve with exercises called neuromobility exercises. We have also included a free download of 5 exercises to improve sciatic nerve tension!

What’s the first think people tell you to do when you get plantar fasciitis? Yup…more than likely they immediately say, “you should get orthotics!” This SEEMS like such an appealing answer, support the arch the way your foot is supposed to be and BAM your pain is gone and you’re good to go. In this blog post, we’re going to present the argument as to why this isn’t the direction you should go or at least why it isn’t the only thing you should do to truly solve your plantar fasciitis. We’ll present 3 problems and the solution to plantar fasciitis as well as at the bottom we’ve included a free download that has 3 exercises to prehab your plantar fascia.

Don’t believe everything you read or watch…especially around health and fitness!

There’s no shortage of information these days, ranging from fixes for your pain and training tips to nutrition tips. This is GREAT overall because you’re able to learn about most things you want to do. However, this can be really impactful on your health in a negative way as well if you’re seeing the wrong information.

Find out how our 72 year old client went from in pain, unable to walk more than 10 minutes, and never strength training to out of pain, walking for as long as she wants, and strength training 3 x a week!

When you hear the word core, I’d be willing to bet you start to think of the abdominals! I don’t blame you, as this is where most peoples heads go when they hear the word core. Most people don’t understand how their core helps them with their performance, what else is involved in the core, and how to train it in ways other than sit ups and planks. So my goal is to share our philosophy on the core, how you can think about its function and then share with you some ways that you can train it that you might not have expected.

Resistance training or lifting weights is something that we preach all the time. Generally speaking, people understand the benefits of cardiovascular training for overall health but tend to underestimate the value or resistance training for overall health beyond getting more muscular. However…