Tag: Lifestyle

Channel News Asia recently published a commentary about how  "tiredness of life" is a common experience among seniors. I love this article because it relates to how health is a state of complete well-being and not just an absence of disease. It also shed perspective to what it is like to grow old, which is [...]

As a chiropractor, I focus a lot on education to drive long-term results. As such, we usually do a community project every month. This can be anything from an online webinar to a in-person workshop. We also host social nights and open houses so we can get to you outside of a clinical setting. If […]

We know increasing physical activity is no easy feat. In our blog post earlier this week, we highlighted that only 10% of healthy-weight children in United States meet guideline recommendations for exercise, sleep, and screen-time. To some extent, we live unhealthily since we were kids! Picking up a new health behaviour is a complex change [...]

Part of problem with being an evidence-based chiropractor is that you gotta repeatedly keep up with research. Sometimes new research challenges our existing knowledge base, and this is particularly problematic because it means our clinical practice would have to change. Today, we are going to talk about depression. Yes, you are right in that depression […]

As a chiropractor, I work with people living with chronic pain. In many cases, chronic pain patients will blame specific injuries or "bad" posture or muscle imbalance as the cause of their pain. While these "causes" of pain may make sense to us, studies show that they poorly correlate with pain experiences. In other words, [...]

As chiropractors, we often get queries about people wanting to fix their posture. In doing so, they hope to resolve their pain. However, there's little to no evidence that suggest that posture improvement can be a pain solution. Here are ... reasons why. You don't need good posture to have no pain We will start [...]

We hinge all the time. From picking something up off the floor to sitting into a chair. We do it so often that sometimes we take this movement for granted. The hip hinge is designed to work your posterior chain, which includes the glutes, hamstrings, and low back muscles. The movement of the hip hinge [...]

Most people found our work at Square One Active Recovery curious because we truly focus on the whole person rather than just the physical parts. While some people may think chiropractic is all about being cracked all over the body, we see chiropractic as something much bigger than that. Instead of seeing chiropractor as crack-my-spine [...]