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.

Why Regular Chiropractic Check-ups are Important for You and Your Family (Part 2)

In part 1 of this series, we discussed the importance of regular chiropractic care to improve your mobility and posture and to help at least slow the progression of osteoarthritis and disc degeneration. In this article, we will discuss the importance of regular chiropractic care to: Improve your muscle strength, balance, and coordination Prevent pain and injuries Regular Chiropractic Care for Improved Muscle Strength, Balance, and Coordination In part 1 of this series, … [Read more...]

Supplements to Keep Your Bones Strong and Healthy

Keeping your bones strong and healthy requires more than eating foods high in calcium like dairy products. We already know from a previous article that taking calcium supplements will not increase bone strength. In fact, calcium supplements may even weaken bone and cause other serious health problems. Let's explore what other vitamins and minerals you need to be supplementing with in order to keep your bones strong and healthy. In this post, I will focus on supplementing with … [Read more...]

Is Inflammation Causing Your Muscle Weakness and Chronic Pain?

Are you feeling weak and in pain? Do you feel pain after exercising and have a hard time recovering from exercise? Maybe you don’t even exercise anymore because it causes too much pain and now you’re gaining weight. No matter how much you exercise you just can’t increase your strength? Do you keep getting recurrent lower back pain on your right side and can’t bend over? You can’t play your favourite sport anymore or pick up your kids. You’re depressed and anxious about what you’re future … [Read more...]