The Power of Physical Therapy in Sports Recovery: From Pain to Peak Performance When you're passionate about sports, injuries can be more than just a setback—they can be a real barrier to doing what you love. That’s where physical therapy comes in. At Aktiv Coast Healthcare, we offer specialized treatment plans designed to get [...]
Your Path to Shoulder Recovery: Essential Rehab Tips and Treatment Options Shoulder injuries can be debilitating, affecting your ability to perform even simple daily tasks. No matter if you have experienced a rotator cuff tear, shoulder dislocation, or frozen shoulder, proper rehabilitation is crucial for a full recovery. Comprehensive shoulder injury rehab therapy helps [...]
Unlock the Benefits of Registered Massage Therapy: Pain Relief and Wellness Taking care of our physical health can often take a backseat to other claims on our time - work, life, family, friends. Whether it’s due to long hours at a desk, rigorous physical activities, or just the stresses of daily life, our bodies [...]
Healing Sports Injuries: Explore the Best Treatment Options Near You When you're passionate about sports, injuries can be an unfortunate reality. But recovering from them doesn’t have to be a long, painful journey. Sports injury therapy offers a range of treatments that can help athletes and active individuals get back on their feet [...]
Breathing An often overlooked underlying contributor to muscle and joint pain can be dysfunctional breathing patterns. When we look at breathing we look not only at the rate, but also the quality of breath. The diaphragm, which is located below the lungs, is the primary respiratory muscle. When you inhale, the [...]
Simply Go For A Walk We continue to learn about the incredible health benefits of exercise, yet somehow, as a population, we are more sedentary than ever. In this article, it is my goal to give readers a few quick, easy strategies to increase daily activity levels. Don’t forget that physical [...]
Injury Prevention and Optimizing Return to Activity Bodybuilders load muscles, joints and tendons, then create ideal environments for adaptation to the load by allotting adequate time to rest and recover. This is deemed healthy tissue loading, facilitating increased strength and tissue growth assuming adequate recovery, sleep, and nutritional needs are met. [...]
COVID-19 Posture Pandemic During the pandemic an elevated cohort has found themselves working from home in less than ideal ergonomic situations. Many sit for prolonged periods due to their occupation, often in poor desk situations. We have identified an increased rate of postural dysfunction during this time, with a high incidence [...]
Find Out What Other Fitness Blogs Aren’t Telling You. By Robert Kjemhus, Kinesiologist, BHKIN A lot of my time writing these blogs is spent on the title. I’m not a fan of sensationalized content (often referred to as clickbait) but the science is in and 80% people will read the [...]
The Power of Touch By Robert Kjemhus, Kinesiologist, BHKIN If you’ve watched the summer Olympics recently then you’ve already noticed the brightly coloured tape that seems to be on every athlete. I’ve recently had a few people ask me about its purpose and whether it was there to provide structural [...]
