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Importance of Recovery After a Workout
The Importance of Recovery: Muscle Repair and Growth: When you exercise, tiny tears in your muscle fibers are created. Ensuring you...
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Sep 8, 20232 min read
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Enhancing Muscle Recovery: The Role of Hydration, Stretching, and Physiotherapy in Running
Running is a phenomenal way to exercise and improve your overall health but it often can leave your muscles feeling sore and achy....
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Jul 8, 20232 min read
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Physiotherapy for low back pain
Low back pain is something that about 80% of us will experience at some point in our lives. About 10 % of those who experience low back...
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Jan 24, 20202 min read
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Tennis Elbow...Physiotherapy and massage therapy can help
Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylopathy) is the most common injury that we see in the elbow. Though it is common among athletes it is also...
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Jan 15, 20201 min read
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What muscles are moving us while we run?
Which muscles power our running? And do they function differently the faster we run? Muscular strategy shift in human running: dependence...
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Oct 21, 20192 min read
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What is the best type of exercise for rotator cuff tendinopathy?
Shoulder pain is the third most common musculoskeletal injury reported to physiotherapy clinics. The shoulder has tremendous functional...
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Sep 24, 20191 min read
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Stretching vs Strengthening...which is more beneficial to prevent injuries?
There has certainly been debate about how important stretching is as part of an exercise routine. Should stretching be done before or...
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Jul 23, 20192 min read
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Low back pain...when should i get imaging?
Informed appropriate imaging for low back pain (LBP) management: A narrative review Low back pain affects two-thirds of adults in their...
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Jul 1, 20192 min read
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Blood Flow Restriction Training. Do less, gain more.
Blood flow restriction training (BFRT) may allow for changes in strength, hypertrophy and endurance when used for an extended period of...
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Jun 7, 20194 min read
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Latest evidence based recommendations for patellofemoral pain
Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is one of the most common conditions that we see walk through our doors. Studies suggest that it effects...
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May 10, 20192 min read
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Why is strength training in the aging adult so important?
Everyone ages, however, not everyone ages the same. Declining physical abilities and loss of independence is the reality for many aging...
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Apr 11, 20192 min read
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The importance of scapular control with shoulder instability
The shoulder is a complex joint that allows for a large amount of movement in multiple planes. What we sacrifice for all of this movement...
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Mar 8, 20192 min read
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MRI and low back pain…Do I need one?
Low back pain is an issue that most of us have experienced. About 80% of people will experience low back pain at some point in their...
WSM
Mar 1, 20192 min read
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Concussions: Classification and management
Concussions have garnered much attention in the past few years with many headlines about professional athletes who have suffered from...
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Jan 30, 20192 min read
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Shockwave therapy...does it work?
The treatment and management of chronic injuries can be a frustrating process for patients and clinicians alike. A recent review of the...
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Jan 3, 20192 min read
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Knee OA...Can you walk 5 minutes per day? Brisk walking can delay knee replacement surgery.
Waterloo Sports Medicine Centre (WSM) is a comprehensive and evidence-based sports medicine clinic. Reviewing recent research and...
WSM
Nov 18, 20182 min read
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