by alphahealth | Apr 12, 2022 | ALPHA Health Services, Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy
During pregnancy, a lot of questions revolve around the “optimal” birthing position. In my practice, when I ask my clients what their expected outcomes from adopting an optimal birthing position include, many of them hope for decreased pain while giving birth,...
by alphahealth | Mar 28, 2022 | ALPHA Health Services
As a physiotherapist my job is to help people get back to optimal function – usually this means identifying the cause(s) of pain and working with my patients to develop a plan to reduce it. Sometimes the causes of pain can be linked to obvious tissue damage, physical...
by alphahealth | Mar 25, 2022 | ALPHA Health Services, Physiotherapy
My path to become a physiotherapist was not the most typical. I completed a degree from McMaster University after high school, but in my early 20’s I did not have any interest in working as a healthcare professional; I was tired and burnt out of school. Instead,...
by alphahealth | Mar 22, 2022 | ALPHA Health Services, Physiotherapy
Inflammation is how the body’s immune system responds to harmful stimuli. These stimuli can range from pathogens, damaged cells, toxic compounds, or foreign substances, and inflammation acts to remove the injurious stimuli and initiate the healing process....
by alphahealth | Jan 17, 2022 | ALPHA Health Services
Dear Friends and Patients of ALPHA Health Services; We want to personally send all of you a note to wish you all the best for 2022. When we wrote to you all a year ago, we were all hoping for a return to a world where we could hug our loved ones, venture outside our...
