It’s not something you ever plan for, but if you ever strain your muscle, it’s important to know what steps to take. Muscle strains come on suddenly and are often quite painful. To help manage your symptoms, remember this word—RICE.
Walking for pain reduction
Leg Cramps
If you’ve ever woken up in the middle of the night with leg pain, you may familiar with leg cramps. Leg cramps can last from a few seconds to up to 10 minutes and are characterized by a sudden pain due to shortening of a muscle. It occurs most often in the calf, but can also occur in the other parts of the body (though it is less common).
Back pain in Kids
It’s likely that you associate back pain with getting older, but you may be surprised to learn that it can be common in children and adolescents. The one year prevalence rate of low back pain (LBP) has been shown to be anywhere from 7% to 58%. In fact, the lifetime prevalence of LBP by age 20 has skyrocketed by a staggering 80% increase! As a result, we should pay careful attention to the habits and behaviours of the youth in our lives and find ways to provide them with relief if they are experiencing symptoms, as well as help them to prevent pain in the future.
What to expect during your first massage
What is foam rolling
Pockets of time.....
Surviving Time Change
Originally daylight savings was implemented to make better use of daylight and conserve energy. The first recorded time change in Canada occurred in Thunder Bay in 1908. Many people report a transient disruption in sleep quality during the adjustment of the time change, a study published in 2020 actually demonstrated a number of adverse health side effects observed from the time change.
Pockets of time.....
Adjusting with added measures
Clinic Update
We look forward to helping you restore some normalcy to your lives. The essence of chiropractic has always been to help people get their lives back, which seems more fitting now than ever. The NS health authority has given the green light to open our doors Friday, June 5th, in anticipation of opening we have opened online booking. When we do reopen we expect to have a wait list as operations will look slightly different…
Clinic Update - Optimistic Opening, Exercise Classes and COVID Care Collection.
It’s been over a month and a half now, how are you all doing?
Are you self isolating all alone (and tired of the company?) or self isolating with your two toddlers (and tired of the company??)
Have you been keeping with a routine, or just letting each day unfold as it happens? (usually toddler meltdown time is a scheduled event at our house)
Is your fitness regimen going up or downhill?
Are you not missing the things you thought you would and missing things you never even used to think of?
We are hanging in, thanks for asking!
Covid Care Packages
Complimentary online Telehealth service available
These are unprecedented times and we recognize the call to support our patients now more than ever. Many of you may be experiencing feelings of anxiety, stress, frustration and even fear. You may not have had treatment in a long time and possibly be experiencing physical pain on top of all these difficult emotions.
As difficult days may still be ahead of us, we want to provide our services in order to help manage pain, discomfort or crisis that you may be currently experiencing. We have decided to offer our services completely free of charge! Yes, completely free of charge, we recognize that some of you may not be in the same financial position as before or perhaps have lost your health insurance coverage due to lay-offs. We want to help you feel better, without having to worry about the bills.
Thinking of others first is what this entire situation is all about, staying home for others, taking care of others and reaching out to others is as simple as it can get.
While we recognize that nothing compares to hands on manual therapy, however, Telehealth care can help patients with:
Rehabilitation exercises
Self-care techniques and strategies
Nutritional advice
Home office ergonomics set up
Discussing questions regarding your health and possibly appropriate referral
In accordance to the Nova Scotia College of Chiropractors, at this time we are only able to offer these online services to current practice members in Nova Scotia that have been to our clinic in the past year.
Chiropractic care is considered an essential service, so if you are in crisis and are requiring an emergency visit, we are making arrangements on a case-by-case basis, please email us at info@islandchiro.com or give us a call 902-270-7022 and we can discuss your case further.
Currently we are able to offer Telehealth services to MacOS and Windows for desktop and Android mobile devices. These appointments can be made online (head over to book now link), by email or by calling us at 902-270-7022.
Click here to book now - Limited availability, book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Take care of yourself and each other.
Drs. J & S
Clinic Update
It’s been over a week since we made the moral call to only accept emergency visits and we are glad to hear that other clinics are finally following the lead. The only way are are going to slow the spread of COVID-19 and keep the pressure off our hospital is to stay home.
Although it was a tremendously difficult decision to make, as of 6pm Monday March 23rd 2020, we decided to close the clinic completely until Monday April 13th. As parents of two young children, we’ve decided that we will use this as an opportunity to focus on growth, education and family fun.
If you had an appointment scheduled with us for the week of April 6-10th, we have rescheduled you to the same time/day the following week. As of right now, our reopening date is tentative, as you all know, the situation changes on a daily basis and we will keep you updated.
The women’s wellness Expo has now been rescheduled to Saturday October 3rd. We will follow up with separate information on that in the days to come.
These are uncertain times for everyone, especially those who are self employed. If you are wondering what you can do to help local business during this difficult time (beyond online shopping or orders), please consider heading over to their facebook pages and give them a like/share or even better, leave them (or us) a review! When it comes to life after COVID, an online testimonial will do wonders for rebuilding a small business. To our friends at the farmers’ market, our favourite restaurants, our Crossfit gym and our favourite local stores, we will see you all real soon.
As usual, we will try to update our blog with health information, recipes and other random thoughts, please check back for updates. In a world with so much uncertainty, we are trying to keep our social media posts light and fun, hopefully bringing a smile to your face at some point during your day.
Stay healthy, keep in touch!
Dr. Jen, Dr. Shaun, RMT Raylyn Routledge & Allyson Lewis
Office Closure
Effective 6pm Monday March 16th we are going to close the clinic to all non-essential visits. For many, we have been a primary care provider, but at this point, as chiropractors we cannot risk exposure to those members of our practice who are most vulnerable.
If you have an appointment booked with us in the next two weeks, we will reschedule your appointment to (hopefully) the week of the 30th. If you have an acute injury, please contact us as we will arrange urgent care by appointment only. Not only is it imperative that we practice social isolation, but also that we keep our ER free of non-emergency complaints. If you require immediate care, we will make this provision for you, granted you have not been exposed to (or are) somebody who has travelled in the past 14-days and are not showing any symptoms of infection.
This does not mean that allied health visits are not considered essential, just that at this time, we have examined our social conscious and are choosing to help “flatten the curve”. We work with too many seniors, pregnant patients, children and immunocompromised people to take this lightly.
Financially as small business owners of a multidisciplinary clinic with numerous associates, this decision was not taken lightly. We look to our government in the recovery weeks that follow to help with stimulus plan for all small business owners and we look forward to seeing new and familiar faces back in our clinic and at our exercise classes.
Truly, the best case scenario, is that we look back on this and conclude that it was an overreaction. Let’s try to stay level headed and take care of each other.
Dr. Jen & Dr Shaun, Raylyn & Allyson
