Exercising Safely in the Heat As the temperature outside rises it is important to consider how exercising in the heat effects our body and its ability to thermoregulate or control your body temperature. When exercising due to inefficiencies in metabolic transfer more than 75% of the energy generated from skeletal muscle is liberated as heat…
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When should you seek Physio help? The fall is a great time to get back to that fitness, exercise or training program you put on hold for the summer. It is also, irnoically the time when a number of injuries happen. Often when getting back into working out or training, something just doesn’t feel right.…
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The one exercise for tennis elbow that actually works! For those of you who have ever had tennis elbow you know how frustrating it can be. That intense pain on the outside of your elbow can persist despite your best efforts at trying to stretch and massage the muscles around your elbow. Well, the good…
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The Top 5 Foam Rolling Exercises Foam rolling can be helpful for treating a variety of injuries. Our team at Thrive Now Physiotherapy often prescribe foam rolling exercises to target specific areas that are thicker and more resistant to loosening up with traditional stretching. A recent systematic review by the International Journal of Sports Physical…
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The one stretch that all World Cup soccer players should do! Hopefully, you’ve all been enjoying watching this year’s World Cup of soccer in Russia. One thing I’m sure you’ve noticed is some of the players diving around in pain. Now some of these are obviously attempts to draw a penalty and may not reflect…
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