What is a TMD? The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is the name of the joint located on either side of your head, just in front of your ears. These joints connect your mandible (jawbone) to your temporal bone (skull). The TMJ, which can rotate and move forward, backward and side to […]
Free Workshop about Jaw Pain and Related Disorders
It’s a free jaw pain workshop! Sun City Physiotherapy is pleased to offer a workshop where you’ll learn about temporomandibular joint pain (jaw pain) and related disorders that can be treated with physiotherapy. This free clinic will be held at our downtown location at 6:30pm on Tuesday, March 5th . […]
Lumbago (Back Pain) by Registered Massage Therapist, Cassie Thackray
Almost all of us have had lower back pain. If you haven’t, you’re either quite young or really lucky! Lower back pain can present itself for many reasons, it can vary in severity and duration, and it can be specific or general. The dull, generalized pain can often be frustrating. […]
Acupuncture, IMS & You. By physiotherapist, Shelby Pudek, MPT
We all get aches and pains. Many of us have tight muscles. So what’s an effective treatment your physiotherapist can provide? Acupuncture and Intra-Muscular Stimulation (IMS) are two effective treatment options. They are used to treat a variety of conditions such as the neck and back pain you experience; but […]
Running Injuries by physiotherapist Pete Yee
With the fall clock running down, many of us weekend warriors are being chased down by the injury bugs. Following a long, hot season of pounding the trails, it’s not uncommon for some aches to show to up. For both the avid year-round runners and the warm-weather aficionados, the mileage […]
Cervicogenic Dizziness by physiotherapist Gabrielle Milot-Lavergne
Introduction: dizziness is not necessarily vertigo! Have you ever experienced dizziness and the Doctor tells you it is vertigo? Yet you are not responding to the vertigo treatment? There is a chance that the symptoms are not from a classic BPPV (benign positional paroxysmal vertigo) because there are many other […]
Injury Magnet by Tamara Oakley MSc.PT
Have you ever noticed how, once you hurt yourself, that area seems to get re-injured? For example, you stub your toe on something, and then proceed to stub the same toe twice more in the same evening? One of the explanations behind this frustrating phenomenon has to do with proprioception: […]
A recipe for jaw pain
Tips For Healthy Cycling.

Cycling orchard lined roads, touring between vineyards, cruising the Kettle valley railway, flowing down trails at Smith creek, or eagerly awaiting completion of the Okanagan rail trail – cycling offers something for everyone in the beautiful Okanagan. After an injury or surgery, my patients commonly ask “do you think I’m […]
Bike techniques to race fast and remain injury-free.

Cycling is considered a low impact activity but some cyclists do experience pain the the back, knees, feet, saddle region, neck, wrists and hands. The Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia (PABC) recently outlined some simple steps, call the Physio-4, that cyclists can use to reduce their chances for injury, prevent […]
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