How not to break your back shovelling snow

How not to break your back shovelling snow

The following is an excerpt:

“The number one reason is that people don’t realize how heavy the snow is,” explains Natalia Lishchyna, an Oakville chiropractor and vice president of the OCA. “A shovel full of snow is probably five to seven pounds, so it’s probably several hundred pounds per driveway. They go out there and try to do it all at once, and that’s when you get strains and sprains, or worse, a disc injury.”

To read this article please visit: http://www.healthzone.ca/health/yourhealth/article/931673--how-not-to-break-your-back-shovelling-snow

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Genesis Healh Centre

There is a new OCA article. The following is an excerpt:

Pack it Light. Wear it Right. provides educators, parents and students with
information and tips to prevent backpack-related injury. With these materials,
we aim to help parents and students choose, pack, lift and safely carry their
heavy backpacks on a daily basis.

To read this article please visit: http://www.chiropractic.on.ca/Resources/PublicEducation/PackitLightWearitRight.aspx

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Genesis Healh Centre

The Olympics

The following article details the role of Chiropractic in training Canadian Olympic Athletes.

The Article:

http://www.ccachiro.org/Client/cca/cca.nsf/web/PR-06-16-04?OpenDocument

An Excerpt:

Chiropractic care works on optimizing biomechanical function to give an athlete the best opportunity to achieve a peak performance. This includes focusing on two main areas: muscle function and joint function.

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Genesis Health Centre
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CCA Page

The following is an excerpt of a Canadian Chiropractic Association web page. It contains information of the best foot forward campaign.

Public Outreach

Fact: 80% of Canadians will suffer from back pain in their lifetimes.

The Canadian Chiropractic Association is working hard to reach-out to the public and all healthcare practitioners to create awareness about back pain and the role of chiropractic treatment. Below are links to current television and print materials that bring attention to the subject of back pain.

For more information visit the webpage at:

http://www.ccachiro.org/Client/cca/cca.nsf/web/Public%20Outreach?OpenDocument

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Genesis Health Centre
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New OCA article about getting in the game

The article url:

http://www.chiropractic.on.ca/Resources/PublicEducation/GetintheGameP.aspx

An excerpt:

As warmer weather approaches, golfers can’t wait to get to the first tee.
But twisted postures, the torque of the swing and forgetting to warm up can
cause unnecessary injury.

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Genesis Health Centre

The case for chiropractic

I've found an old National Post article. The following is a link to the article:

http://www.ccachiro.org/Client/cca/cca.nsf/object/ChiroNews/$file/Counterpoint-NationalPost.pdf

The following is an small excerpt of the article:

A recent four-year study in the American Medical Association Journal The
Archives of Internal Medicine, concluded that benefit plan members with
Chiropractic coverage returned to work faster, had lower claim cost and
experienced fewer interventions such as MRIs compared to plan members without
chiropractic benefits.

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Genesis Health Centre

OCA article

The following is an article containing tips for working in your garden:

http://www.chiropractic.on.ca/Resources/PublicEducation/PlantandRakepub.aspx

The following is an excerpt of the program:

With eighty-eight per cent of Ontario chiropractors reporting that gardening is
the most common source of back and neck pain during the warm weather season, the
Ontario Chiropractic Association's Plant and Rake Without the Ache public
education program is aimed at helping gardeners to avoid the stiff and sore
joints, muscle, neck and back pain that sometimes accompanies work in the
yard.The program features tip sheets that outline proper warmup exercises,
stretches, lifting techniques and injury prevention strategies in a simple,
easy-to-follow format.

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Genesis Health Centre