Swimming is a form of exercise that people may attempt for low back pain relief. The idea is that swimming helps spare the body of stress due to its low impact; however, if the context isn’t specified – then this isn’t correct to say. Yes, standing in water will be less stressful since the buoyancy forces
The adult spine contains 26 vertebrae and 23 spinal discs. Both vertebrae and spinal discs function as shock absorbers and provide the foundation that allows for movement of the spine. Each vertebra serves as an attachment site for tendons and ligaments. Tendons attach muscle to bone and ligaments attach bone to bone. The attachment sites
I was in the gym the other night going through my standard high-intensity interval training (HIIT) treadmill workout. The workout went fine, but, on this night, I decided to switch things up by adding some battle rope HIIT after the treadmill sprints. I got through the battle rope HIIT without any issues up until the last interval. While performing
To follow up my previous post on lumbar disc herniation’s in hockey players, I thought it would only be fitting to talk about another common lower back injury in hockey players, which is spondylolysis. While not as common as lumbar disc herniation’s in hockey players, spondylolysis is still an injury that is relatively common and can cause
Throughout the past five years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients and individuals with low back pain. Some of these individuals have involved your everyday 9 to 5 office worker with low back pain, clients with spinal surgical interventions, and professional basketball, hockey and mixed martial athletes with severe
Well, it’s been a CRAZY and interesting year… I must say! There has been so many things that have happened, that I never would of thought of happening in a million years. And I can’t say enough about how excited I am for the future! So, in today’s post I’m going to highlight my top
