Hockey players can improve their performance when they achieve optimal posture and stride based on your gait, or limb movements. Everyone has a different foot structure, but skate manufacturers offer a ‘one type fits all’. Orthotics correct this to each person’s unique foot structure to achieve the best performance and comfort. Learn how Hockey Skate Orthotics work and how it can improve your hockey game.
Stress affecting your digestive health? How acupuncture can help
In these unprecedented times, with many external stressors impacting our emotional and physical wellbeing, often our digestion can suffer from imbalance and uncomfortable symptoms. Learn why acupuncture is an effective mode of treatment.
Use prenatal massage to manage your aches and pains during pregnancy
Massage therapy has proven time and time again to be an amazing aid in pregnancy. Regular prenatal massages can help you relax, but may also relieve insomnia, joint pain, neck and back pain, leg cramping and sciatica.
Experiencing Numbing or tingling in your arms or hands? Try these nerve flossing exercises
There are 3 major nerves in the arm and when they are irritated, they can produce symptoms like numbing, tingling and weakness all the way down into the fingers. So, what is flossing and how does it help? Learn how these simple exercises can help reduce symptoms
Suffering from seasonal allergies? Get relief with acupressure allergy protocols you can do at home
Runny nose, itchy eyes or sneezing bouts? With Spring in bloom, you may be suffering from seasonal allergies. While acupuncture treatments are a valuable treatment option, you can get relief with two acupressure protocols you can do at home.
Feeling stressed? Strategies to cope and adapt
Significant life events, whether positive or negative, can cause us psychological stress and pain which can present itself as loneliness, anxiety or depression. While you cannot always get rid of the stressors and conflicts in everyday life, you can lower your stress by learning how to use effective coping mechanisms.
Is it allergies, a cold or the flu? How to tell the difference
Sniffles, runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, and feeling lousy are all symptoms affecting the respiratory system. But how do you know if it’s an allergy, cold or the flu? It is easy to get symptoms mixed up because your immune system reacts to allergies and viruses with the same immune response, as this is how the body protects itself from foreign invaders.
How to boost your immune system at home with acupressure
Acupuncture supports the body’s natural ability to resist illness and pain. Acupressure is the gentle massage over acupuncture points and can be done at home to help boost your immunity. Learn how to do a 5-minute acupressure immune boost routine.