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You & Olympians: Have Pain, Find Relief, Return to Exercise Year-Round

Everyone needs to exercise. Everybody needs to move. Physical activity is for each and every one of us. Is mountain climbing or marathon running necessary? Not at all! Walking is superb. Muscle strengthening is superb. Gardening when the season is right is wonderful. No gyms are even required for the physical activity that will make you feel good. If a knee or back injury occurs – and they do to the best of us! – your Toronto chiropractor at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is here to get you back to moving with gentle, safe spinal distraction manipulation…and knee distraction for the familiar matter of knee pain!

EXERCISE IN ANY SEASON

A study conducted in Finland in 2017 followed the physical activity participation of 18-64 year olds and 65+ year-olds. Researchers discovered that the 18-64 year olds met the recommended guidelines for physical activity – 42% of men and 39% of women – better than the 65+ year olds – 26% men and 20% women. What were the most popular interests people performed throughout that time? Cleaning/maintenance work, walking, and stair climbing. What exercises did they perform most consistently all year irrespective of age/gender/season? Muscle-strengthening exercises and workout. Swimming, skiing, gardening, jogging, and stair climbing were more age/gender/season dependent. The researchers ultimately concluded that there are certain conditioning activities people will do. Proposals for physical activity recommendations must incorporate those to encourage the most physical activity possible. (1) What do you like to do? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is confident our Toronto chiropractic patients and their families can find exercises to do any time of year! Heck, even in snow, a good snowball toss can get us moving!

OLYMPIC EXERCISE

Winter and summer, Olympians move! They’re very much like us though their training may be a bit more on the intense side. Elite athletes like the Olympians deal with pain and depression and keep moving. A study of Olympians from the 1948 to 2018 games found that 32.4% report pain today, and 35.9% have functional limitations they connect to their Olympics’ days. Knee (20.6% lasting 120 days median) and lumbar spine (13.1% lasting 100 days) were the top two injuries Olympians suffered in their training days. Depression was reported by 6.6% of them. (2) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre presents these Olympians’ stats with our Toronto chiropractic patients to let them know thery are not alone in their pain struggles.

KNEE EXERCISE and SMT WITH COX®

Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is ready to help when knee pain and back pain affect you. Gentle Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction and Spinal Manipulation and its distraction adaptation for knees are pain-relieving. Make an appointment, and discover it for yourself! A few sessions and you’ll be excited to get out and move, walk, garden, build a snowman, and more!

CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates how his adaptation of Cox® Technic distraction principles for treating painful knees relieves knee pain.

Schedule your Toronto chiropractic appointment now. Join everyone else who comes to Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre with knee and back pain and leaves to start moving again, gardening again, walking again, rolling up snowballs again with a bit more spring in their step! Get out, and exercise!

 
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre shares stats on injuries Olympians sustained in their careers and beyond to assure the rest of us that we’re not the only ones with back pain and knee pain. Chiropractic can help get us back to life! 
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