It all started with a simple belief: People deserve more than pain management — they deserve to move, live, and thrive again. At Orthosports Calgary, we saw a gap in the way pain and injury were treated. Too often, patients bounced between clinics, receiving short,...
“Needles? No Thanks!”…Said No Relaxed Acupuncture Patient Ever Let’s be honest. When you first hear the word acupuncture, your brain might scream:”Needles?! No thank you—I’ll just stay tense and stressed, thanks.” But hang in there. Before you run for the...
1. Yintang (The Third Eye Point) 📍 Location: Between your eyebrows, just above the nose bridge🧘 How to use: Use your index or middle finger to apply gentle, circular pressure for 1–2 minutes. Breathe slowly as you press. ✅ Benefits: Calms the mind, reduces anxiety,...
🧪 Could NSAIDs Be Contributing to Chronic Pain? A Surprising Twist in Pain Science For years, NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) like ibuprofen and naproxen have been the go-to solution for aches, pains, and inflammation. From weekend warriors to office...
There are 3 potential reasons for concussion: Direct impact brain and injury, acceleration-deceleration brain injury, blast brain injury. 1. Direct impact is caused normally by direct trauma to the head, which results in a shake of the brain. Traumatic Brain Injury...
In order to be fully objective we will talk not only about positive sides of deep tissue massage, but also about the negative sides. When you look into a deep tissue massage you will mostly find the positives. Mostly, there is a lot of talk about blood flow...
Keloid Scars A keloid scar is a thick raised scar. It can occur wherever you have a skin injury but usually forms on earlobes, shoulders, cheeks or the chest. People, who are prone to developing keloids, get them in more than one place. Hypertrophic Scars...
Andrew Taylor Still said “Disease is a result of a violation of a natural law”. He was a founder of Osteopathy. Andrew started as a medical doctor during an American Civil war. When he came back home at 1864 his wife and three of his children died from spinal...
In his book “The Biology of Belief” Dr Bruce Lipton talks about manifestation of thoughts to become a reality. Many times, the results of positive beliefs are positive and vice versa. The effect of Placeboes is very well known in western medicine. For example, if a...
1. The effect of a scar. Pretty much every surgery leaves a scar on the body. There is a visible portion of the scar, which is a cut in the skin and the deeper invisible part of the scar tissue. Many times, surgeons are forced to cut also through the muscle and even...
