by alphahealth | May 12, 2017 | ALPHA Health Services, Physiotherapy
Chronic illness leaves you feeling like you’re letting everyone down—especially yourself. It’s a constant game of adjusting expectations, rethinking assumptions, and regulating hopes. That deadline you’re trying to meet, that show you really wanted to go to, the pile...
by alphahealth | May 9, 2017 | Announcements
Every month, ALPHA Health Services will feature one of our AWESOME staff on the blog! For May, we feature… HILARY MACLAUGHLIN, Registered Massage Therapist. Hilary has always been interested and intrigued by the human body. After graduating from Brock...
by alphahealth | May 6, 2017 | ALPHA Health Services, Physiotherapy
It is almost here… golf season! Avid golfers, recreational golfers, and social golfers are gearing up to hit the lynx… and with the start of golf season comes the start of golf injuries… golfers elbow being one of the most common ailments to sideline a golfer....
by alphahealth | Apr 27, 2017 | ALPHA Health Services, Physiotherapy
Knee pain? Hip pain? You might be suffering from Illiotibial Band (ITB) syndrome. Let me unpack what this means, and more importantly, what to do about it. In order to understand the problem of ITB syndrome, we first need to understand the anatomy involved with the...
by alphahealth | Apr 12, 2017 | ALPHA Health Services, Physiotherapy
There are approximately 680 muscles in the human body. Muscles function to produce movement and force. Muscles are what drive our voluntary movements, such as walking or standing but also involuntary movements such as moving food through our digestive tract or the...
