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  • Rotator Cuff Strengthening Exercises

    These exercises serve to strengthen the rotator cuff muscles and are very helpful if you are feeling weakness, pain or clicking in your shoulder joint.

    The exercises work on the internal rotators (subscapularis, teres major), the external rotators (teres minor, infraspinatus), and the abductors (supraspinatus)

    Guidelines for performing the stretches:

    1. Check with a health care professional before you attempt these exercises to ensure that it is safe for you.
    2. Do the exercises slowly
    3. Try to breathe slowly and keep your body relaxed. Do not tense up or hold your breath as this will invite muscle spasm.
    4. Buy a few different colours of thera bands for this.  Each colour represents a different degree of difficulty.  Start with the easiest band and only move up to a more difficult colour band after you have completed 2 pain free days of exercises.
    5. You should not feel any pain during the exercises. If you do feel pain, decrease the range of movement by stopping before you get to the point of pain. Continue the exercise within the pain free range.
    6. If you cannot find a comfortable, pain free way to do these exercises, discontinue immediately and seek the advice of a health care professional.
    7. Do the exercises a minimum of 3 times a day and 10 reps per set for best results.

     

    This last video goes over correct form and some common mistakes.

     

  • Treatment of Dizziness or Vertigo

    Dizziness or Vertigo due to Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is fairly common but can feel debilitating.  It can be difficult to walk, stand or sit without dizziness or sometimes nausea.  It is caused by a piece of crystal in your inner ear coming loose and positioning itself incorrectly.  The good news is that it is a relatively harmless safe condition and it can be effectively treated with certain exercises.

    The first step to treatment is a visit to your doctor to diagnose the condition.  Your doctor may even be able to treat you by performing the Epley Maneuvre or Canalith Repositioning Maneuvre.  If you doctor can’t perform the maneuvre, be sure that they diagnose which ear is affected and visit a physiotherapist that can perform the maneuvre for you.

     The Epley Maneuvre or Canalith Repositioning Maneuvre

    The Epley Maneuvre or Canalith Repositioning Maneuvre puts the patient in a series of positions in order to encourage the crystal to float back to its normal place in the inner ear.

    The Epley Maneuvre:

    – pillow under back to give 30 degrees extension of the head
    – Start facing the affected side.  Face left if the left ear is affected
    – wait 30 seconds after symptoms subside to change positions

    The general procedure is:

    1. lie on your back with a pillow under your shoulders.  Your head is 45 degrees rotated towards affected ear and 30 degrees extended
    2. head is 45 degrees rotated away from the affected ear and 30 degrees extended
    3. roll onto your side away from the affected ear with your head rotated so that you are looking at the floor
    4. come up to a seated position and look straight ahead

     

    Home care:

    – Do not sleep flat for 2 days.  This can be done by sleeping in a reclining chair at an angle of about 45 degrees.
    – For one week try to avoid moving your head in ways that might provoke another reaction.  Avoid the hairdresser, sports, looking up or down while working.

    It  is quite slow and gentle as you can see in the following videos.  This first video shows the Epley Maneuvre for BPP Vertigo of the left ear:

    The next video shows the Epley Maneuvre for BPP Vertigo of the right ear

     

    Brandt-Daroff Repositioning/Habituation Exercises

    After you are treated, you can do the Brandt-Daroff Repositioning/Habituation Exercises at home on your own. The following video explains the Brandt-Daroff Exercises:

     

    Hopefully these exercises will help you get your life back to normal.  A word of caution: This condition often reoccurs after a few years and treatment may need to be repeated.

  • Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford 2005

    Steve Jobs death has grabbed the attention of the world today. Here is a video of a commencement speech he gave in 2005. He gives a wonderful speech that reveals life events that shaped him, and little surprises that changed the course of his life.

     

  • Stretch and Exercise Videos

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    Neck and Shoulder Pain:

     

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  • Massage Case Studies (Part 2 – Volunteer and Massage)

    Have a look at the  Massage Case Studies article for a background and description of the cases.

    Some thoughts on the experience of volunteering at Mother Theresa’s Mission:

    It was a chance to put those obscure lessons we learned into practise.  In massage training there were many lessons that seemed like a waste of time as we would never come to face them in a massage clinic environment. Most of the work I do concerns treating 20th century problems such as stiff necks and sore backs from poor posture and too much computer work.  It was professionally challenging and rewarding to go digging into the depths of my  training to help people with conditions that I had never seen first hand.

    It was also an amazing opportunity to do the most good possible.  The patients were triaged and only the ones that could benefit the most from treatment were treated.  Helping somebody remember how to stand and walk again or possibly getting that rickshaw driver back on the road earning a living to support his family were unique moments that I will treasure forever.

    The work seemed more important because there weren’t many other alternatives.  The patients were not going to get help from doctors, physiotherapists or other health care professionals.  Their loved ones would not collect them and care for them after the treatment.  They relied completely on the help they were given at the mission and were extremely grateful  for it.

    The unmeasurable results are priceless.  The feeling of hope was more responsible for the stroke victim standing and walking than the treatment was.  Same goes for the rickshaw driver.  It could be that just feeling a small physical change was enough to start turning those big gears that result in rehabilitation.

    The simple treatments can bring huge results.  The decrease in swelling that the was achieved with the two patients with broken legs and the one with liver damage was drastic.  And it all came from something as simple as nodal pumping and manula lymphatic drainage.

  • The Ontario PC’s and the lies they use to spread homophobia

    The following quotes are taken from a CBC article.

    The Liberals have not since made any mention of changing the current sexual education curriculum, which has remained the same since Progressive Conservative Mike Harris was premier.

    When asked specifically if he stood behind the flyers, Hudak replied: “Of course. And I wonder if Dalton McGuinty’s going to stand by his plan to actually bring in these changes [for children as young as] six years old.”

    The controversial flyer contains quotes it says are taken from the K-12 curriculum. But the quotes are not included in the curriculum, only in the anti-homophobia resource guide. The application of the recommendations in the guide aren’t mandatory for educators.

    The flyer also claims the school board document contains a reference to “cross-dressing for six-year-olds,” although no such wording can be found anywhere in the document. The Liberals say the flyer is homophobic and misleading.