Headache Care Tips
OCA Admin2024-04-24T12:28:46-04:00Use these headache tips to moderate your headache pain without medication. Download the video at the link below or share this post on Instagram or your favourite social media platform!
A Comprehensive Approach to Managing Persistent Headaches and Migraine
OCA Admin2024-06-11T15:38:39-04:00Headaches and migraine are painful and can affect your everyday activities. No matter where you’re at in life, they can appear seemingly out of nowhere or, in some cases, result from known factors like your family history or an injury. Unfortunately, headaches can also severely impair your ability to focus and function in day-to-day life, with factors such as light and sound making environments unbearable. The good news is that head-related pain is manageable and [...]
The Power of Exercise to Help Manage Osteoporosis
OCA Admin2024-06-19T21:27:33-04:00Aging, obesity and chronic health conditions, among other things, can lead to limited mobility and strength. And these issues can in turn contribute to spine, muscle and joint problems. As we age, our bones decline in density, starting at age 30. And if bone mass gets dangerously low, it’s called osteoporosis. Physical exercise, particularly if it’s weight-bearing, can help you better manage osteoporosis, including its side effects. “The higher you get your bone mass up [...]
The Pain Problem: Spine, Muscle and Joint Pain
Wilhelm Wojcik2024-03-14T16:52:54-04:00Canadians Are No Strangers to Pain According to the Canadian Chiropractic Association (CCA) 2017 report, All Pain, No Gain: Shining a Light on Canada’s Back Pain and Opioid Crisis, almost 90 per cent of Canadians have experienced muscle and/or joint pain in the last year, the most common being back pain and headache. Pain affects the way people work, play and generally live. And a person’s spine, muscles, joints and related nervous system supports every [...]
Breast Cancer and Chiropractic Care
OCA Admin2023-02-15T19:14:39-05:00When you have breast cancer, your treatments, such as radiation, surgery and chemotherapy, are physically hard on you. Receiving a cancer diagnosis and managing it is also emotionally stressful. This stress puts even more tension on your body. Odd as it may sound, breast cancer and chiropractic care can go together. While a chiropractor can’t treat cancer, the Canadian Cancer Society advises that chiropractic care may help people living with it cope with some types [...]
Aging: How to stay active when it hurts to do so
OCA Admin2024-06-19T14:55:44-04:00Tom Kellar and his wife, Colleen Fraser, from Sudbury, Ontario, have always tried to stay active while aging by going to the gym, walking, or hitting the trails on snowshoes or skis during the winter. But in recent years, the pain made exercise a challenge for both of them. For Kellar, the pain was particularly bad in his left knee, while Fraser had both hand and knee pain. “When you’re in pain, you’re tired all [...]
Mind and Body: The link between chronic pain and mental health
OCA Admin2023-02-15T19:24:29-05:00As an advocate for improved pain management in Canada, Lynn Cooper advises patients to access a multidisciplinary team of health practitioners. It’s an approach she also takes to help manage the physical and emotional challenges of her own chronic pain. You likely know that many people deal with chronic pain or mental illness. But you may not know how often the two go together. If you have chronic pain, it impacts your mood and can [...]
CCGI Evidence-based Low Back Pain Exercises
OCA Admin2024-06-19T20:27:26-04:00The following videos are designed to help reduce your pain and improve your spine, muscle and joint strength, flexibility and other functions. Based on recommendations from the Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Low Back Pain, these videos are produced by the Canadian Chiropractic Guideline Initiative (CCGI). Low Back Pain Patient Exercise Videos: Low back mobility (level 1) Low back strengthening (stability) and motor control (level 2a) Low back stretching (level 2b) Low back strengthening/endurance [...]
Living with Arthritis: How Chiropractic Care Helps Alleviate Arthritis Symptoms
OCA Admin2023-02-15T20:31:03-05:00Arthritis affects about one in five Canadians or more than six million people. Many people living with this condition say they need help to complete daily tasks because arthritis limits their abilities. With symptoms like stiffness and often painful inflammation, arthritis limits your mobility and how well you can move your joints. Chiropractic care helps alleviate arthritis symptoms, so you can move through your day with less pain. Although symptoms are more likely to show [...]