Can puberty make your daughter more susceptible to injury?

Can puberty make your daughter more susceptible to injury?   Sadly, the answer is yes. However with the right information we can mitigate this risk.   I remember being at school and the menstrual cycle being brushed over. Most of us girls would say anything to the doctor to be put on the pill so
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What is pain?

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We’ve all experienced some sort of pain in our lifetime, but what is pain? Pain the uncomfortable sensory and emotional feeling associated with an actual or potential tissue damage. Most of the time pain is the last sensation to occur. Simply, it’s a warning sign, or the body pressing the big red help button. It’s
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What to expect at an Initial Chiropractic Assessment

If you have never been to a Chiropractor and wondering what happens in an initial assessment, Dr. Courtney explains in the video below.   The initial consultation is normally broken into 4 areas the history, physical examination, findings and treatment. The more information you can give us on this appointment the better.  
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Do you suffer from Tech Neck? Here’s what you can do to help improve posture.

Do you suffer from Tech Neck? Here’s what you can do to help improve posture. The fitness industry has drummed into us the importance of a strong core, and getting that 6 pack. But what if we challenged you to believe that there is more than one that governs the bodies posture, stability and function.
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I have shoulder pain… so why are you checking my neck and back?

I have shoulder pain… so why are you checking my neck and back? Shoulder pain is a common reason for our patients to seek help from the team at Thrive Health Co. More often than not, there is more to a shoulder injury than meets the eye. Our shoulders are complex joints with lots of
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Knee pain? A Chiropractors guide to how you can fix it!

Do you suffer knee pain? A Chiropractors guide to how you can fix it! Knee pain is a common and disabling complaint that we see at Thrive Health Co. The are many things that can cause knee pain and treatment for knee pain always follows a thorough assessment by one of our experienced health care
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The Benefit of Exercise and Strength & Conditioning for Seniors with Thrive Seniors Classes

Thrive Health Co. is offering Exercise, Strength and Conditioning Classes for Seniors because we believe it’s very important to make exercise an everyday habit at any age. When you’re not active and you have a sedentary lifestyle, over time you will get stiff, lose muscle mass and risk becoming injured.
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Physiotherapist’s and Chiropractor’s working together… How does that work?

Since opening the Thrive Health Co. doors back in October 2017, we have found that many of our clients ask us how Chiropractors and Physiotherapists can work together?
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Are you in need of a good night’s sleep..? Here’s how…

A good night’s sleep is vitally important to allow us to function at optimum performance and deal with our busy life schedules. A restless night’s sleep leads to us feeling tired, agitated and unable to concentrate the next day. A number of restless nights’ sleep can lead to poor eating habits, too much caffeine, irritable
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Sitting and poor posture, what it’s really doing to our backs

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At Thrive Health Co. we would say approximately 90% of our patients admit to sitting with poor posture and they all agree it causes or aggravates their back pain. Did you know, we spend up to 80% of our day sitting down; working at the computer, watching television, eating meals, work meetings and so on.
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