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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Kinesiology Week Fundraiser for Canadian Transplant Association

Lifemoves Health & Rehabilitation is holding an open house, anniversary party and fundraiser as part Kinesiology Week October 19th - 24that our North Vancouver location. We are partnering with Beyond H20 water to raise funds for the Canadian Transplant Association with proceeds of water sales going to the Canadian Transplant Association.

Come join us for an evening of guest speakers, draw prizes from Grouse Mountain, Moveo Sport and Rehabilitation, Stretch To Win, Send Sven 2010, Fitness World and Lifemoves and information about Kinesiology and Lifemoves Health & Rehabilitation's services. You will also have an an opportunity to meet our sponsored athletes, Sven Winter and Margaret Benson.

This event is constantly evolving please visit our event page for more details.

We look forward to meeting you.

Alfred Ball & Sahba Seifi - Practicing Kinesiologists

Labels: events, Fundraiser, Kinesiology Week, Open House

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Understanding Trigger Points to Reduce Soft-Tissue Pain

Kinesiologists, Alfred Ball and Sahba Seifi were further introduced to trigger point techniques in a workshop taught by William Hunh and hosted by Healing Through Movement on September 26th at Douglas College.

The first part of the course explained what trigger points are and how they produce more than just referral myofascial pain. During the second part we briefly explored how to discover trigger points on our clients' bodies using different hand techniques and varying levels of pressure.

We learned that muscles need up to two-weeks to heal once they are relieved of trigger points; chronic and/or hypersensitive trigger points need multiple treatments and respond to very little stimulus (1-3/10, no more than 6). Often, they may be made temporarily worse if they are over stimulated, so be gentle. We were also intrigued by the idea of addressing both latent and active trigger points.

Trigger points are an often forgotten about source of chronic of pain and other symptoms such as dizzinies, headaches, muscle weakness and back pain. They can mostly be relieved using self-treatment with hands or tools such as tennis balls, foam-rollers and movement re-education.

Get a great guidebook on trigger points: The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, Second Edition: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief

Contact Sahba or Alfred today to learn more about trigger points.

Labels: chronic pain, continuing education, fascia, myofascial pain, trigger points