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Nutrition for Menopause
For most women, menopause begins between the ages of 45 and 55, and it is defined by the lack of a menstrual cycle for 12 months. This is a time to take care of yourself by making healthy lifestyle choices. Food and nutrition play significant roles in the health and...
What Is Scoliosis?
What is scoliosis? Scoliosis is a deformity of the spine, usually diagnosed in adolescents; often without a known cause. What is Scheuermann’s Kyphosis? It is a (hyper)kyphosis; a spinal deformity that leads to a more rounded appearance of one’s upper back (sometimes...
Complete Concussion Management
What is a Concussion? A concussion is a mild form of brain injury that results from acceleration or deceleration of the brain within the skull following a significant impact to the head or body. Concussions can be the result of a direct blow to the head, or of...
Making Sense of ‘Persistent’ Pain
It seems self evident that pain is caused by tissue damage and istherefore resolved by tissue healing. But what about when the initialinjury should have resolved long ago and yet our pain continues intomany months and possibly even years? This is known as ‘persistent’...
To Kegel or not to Kegel?
You may have read on social media that you should be doing kegel exercises to help strengthen your pelvic floor. BUT, what is the pelvic floor? And more importantly, what are kegel exercises and should you be doing them? The answer is...it depends. The pelvic floor is...
Great New Space. Same Great Team.
Sun City Physiotherapy’s downtown clinic has a whole new look. 2020 marks our 20th anniversary, and we’re happy to announce the completion of our Downtown Kelowna clinic's renovation. The downtown team is back treating clients at our St. Paul Street clinic. We’re...
Shaking Sugar Cravings
5 Tips for shaking those lingering holiday sugar cravings: Holidays…we love them…and we tend to overdo the treats a bit during them. That’s okay, but battling those sugar cravings while adjusting back to reality and fighting off the post holiday illness, often makes...
What is a TMD and what are the symptoms?
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...
Acupuncture, IMS & You
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...
Running Injuries
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...
Cervicogenic Dizziness
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...
Injury Magnet
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...
Headache & Migraine: Physiotherapy Management
Is that pain in your head really a pain in the neck? Do you suffer from persistent headaches when sitting at your desk at work? Or does your headache come on when there is added stress in your life? Maybe when you get a migraine you’re in bed for the next 2 days?...
Sun City Physiotherapy now offers Shockwave Treatment
Shockwave Treatment now available at Sun City Physiotherapy: INDICATIONS: TREATMENT OF TENDONITIS AND TENDINOPATHIES HAMSTRING INJURIES MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS IN NECK/LOWER BACK ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY BURSITIS JUMPERS KNEE CALCIFIC ROTATOR CUFF TENDINITIS TRIGGER...
Full recovery after an ankle sprain.
It was a crisp autumn day when Sue decided to go for a hike. All of a sudden she caught her foot on the unstable ground and rolled her ankle. Her ankle was sore, swollen, tender to the touch and she felt unstable while walking on it. Eventually, after a couple weeks...
A recipe for jaw pain
The fact of the matter is jaw pain can be down right miserable. Talking and eating are two of our most important functions in daily life and the jaw plays a large role in both. If wrapping your teeth around a big juicy Okanagan apple has lost its sweet satisfying...
Torticollis
Have you or someone you know just welcomed a new addition to the family? If so, this article may be for you! Since the promotion of “Back to Sleep” as well as babies having to spend time in the NICU or PICU due to numerous conditions, head shape issues have been...
Fall Prevention
While many people consider seeing a physiotherapist to help with their recovery after an injury or surgery, few consider scheduling a physiotherapy appointment for injury prevention. When it comes to fall prevention, we observe and assess functional movements...
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...
Shoulder Health
Get Your Head Around Your Shoulders this Summer! With summer fast approaching, many of us are jumping back into one or more of our favourite fair weather activities, be it golfing with an orchard view, volleyball on the sandy beach, swimming in the crystal clear...
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