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Get Stronger

Getting stronger means increasing your muscle strength and increasing your resilience.  Both are necessary to get you healthy and to keep you healthy.


Benefits of increasing your muscle strength


From a chiropractor’s perspective having good muscle strength keeps your spine stable, improves your alignment and posture, improves your athletic performance, reduces the chance of injuries, and helps improve your balance and coordination.  Furthermore, increasing your muscle strength will help you withstand and continue to partake in physical activities around the house like gardening, yard work, home renovations, shovelling, and general house work.


Increasing your resilience


Resilience is your body's ability to respond effectively when you encounter stress.  Building up your internal response to a stressful situation can help ensure you heal better and stay healthy.


The following articles explain how you can boost your muscle strength and resilience from treatments like chiropractic care to lifestyle strategies like eating healthier, exercises, sleeping better, and stress management. 

Back to School Low Back Pain Prevention

Back to School Low Back Pain Prevention

August 21, 2019 by Dean Collins Leave a Comment

It’s back to school and your children will soon be hunched over desks.  They will also be carrying heavy backpacks over their shoulders and will be back into their extra curricular activities.  The long hours of sitting and extra weight they carry in their backpacks can cause posture problems and low back pain.  Here are some tips to help posture problems and low back pain as your children head back to school. The percent of children (about 18%) and teenagers (about 66%) who get low back pain … [Read more...]

Get Stronger, Natural Pain Relief Tagged: backpack, chiropractic care, chiropractic care for children, exercise, low back pain, obese, overweight, sedentary, sitting

Exercise Helps Migraines

Exercise Helps Migraines

August 14, 2019 by Dean Collins Leave a Comment

If you suffer from migraines, you might want to be aware that exercise can help your migraines.  Recent research has shown that regular aerobic exercise can decrease the number of days per month you suffer from migraines.  Migraines are the top cause of disability worldwide between the ages of 15-49. (1)  One migraine can put you down for the count for several hours or days.  Migraines are also the most common headache responsible for disrupting family life and missed work. (2, 3, 4, 5, … [Read more...]

Get Stronger, Natural Pain Relief Tagged: aerobic exercise, exercise, headaches, migraines

How to Rebuild Your Gut Microbiome with Prebiotics

How to Rebuild Your Gut Microbiome with Prebiotics

February 24, 2019 by Dean Collins Leave a Comment

In a previous article I discussed what your microbiome is, why it’s important, and how a disrupted microbiome can cause irritable bowel syndrome.  In this article we will discuss how to rebuild your gut microbiome with prebiotics.  What are prebiotics? Prebiotics are foods and supplements which feed your good gut microorganisms (microbiota) and allow them to grow and thrive.  Another name for prebiotics are fermentable fibre.  Prebiotic Foods and Supplements Prebiotic foods include … [Read more...]

Boost Your Energy, Get Stronger Tagged: fermentable fibre, fibre, fodmaps, insoluble fibre, irritable bowel syndrome, microbiome, microbiota, prebiotics, resistant starch, soluble fibre

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