Perfectly functional does not mean optimally functional! I don’t have very many clients come in with no complaints, but just before christmas, I did. One of my clients had gotten […]
Read moreJune 2023 Newsletter
I am Now an RMT As a Registered Massage Therapist in Ontario most private insurance companies will cover my services. Vacation I will be gone for the month of July! […]
Read moreLymphatic Drainage Massage
I recently worked on an inner thigh scar on a woman in her 60s which she got from an accident when she was 8 years old. She had hip pain […]
Read moreCore stabilization through breathing
Abdominal muscles are exhalation muscles. Your breath is a primary core stabilizer. Abdominal muscles, the ones you know — your rectus abdominus, obliques, and the transverse abdominus are all muscles […]
Read moreJaw clenching, tooth grinding and bruxism
Jaw issues are more than just issues that affect the health of your teeth. If you grind your teeth, clench your jaw, have trouble opening your mouth, get lock-jaw, or […]
Read moreEye movement issues as a symptom
Eyes movements and body movements coordinate. Sometimes eye movement dysfunctions can create an issue in other parts of the body, other times an issue somewhere else in one’s body will […]
Read moreWaiting to exhale: breath holding as a diagnostic
Buteyko breathing Buteyko breathing has been all over my IG feed recently. I do an analysis of breathing biomechanics in my practice as an Integrative Movement Therapist and talked about […]
Read moreEye have a migraine: eye movement rehab can create migraine relief
Migraines are associated with Eye pain Migraine headaches are associated with eye pain and light sensitivity. A sub-type of migraine is an ocular migraine, which presents with visual symptoms. Ocular […]
Read moreThe primacy of vision
Vision rules In 1991 Felleman and Essan published a study called “Distributed Hierarchical Processing in the Primate Cerebral Cortex”. This article scientifically established the centrality of the visual system in […]
Read moreYou’ve got skin in the game
The skin is a sensory organ All the tissues in your body emerge from three fundamental layers. Yup, going embryological on ya’ here. Your skin and your brain come from […]
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