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Health is a relationship between you and your body.

Diet is an important part of keeping your brain sharp as you age. New research indicates that the earlier you start eating healthy, the better.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers tracked the diet and eating habits of more than 3,000 individuals living in the UK and correlated it with their cognitive ability for seven decades. Those who had the highest-quality diets tended to have better cognitive ability over time compared to their peers who ate unhealthy diets.

Find out more in this post.

Cognitive Decline: Eating a Healthy Diet Can Reduce Your Risk Eating a healthy diet when you're younger may help boost brain health and reduce your risk of cognitive decline as you age, new research finds.

MEET MARLISSA CAWSTON. She has always been very passionate about helping others. Her goal is to facilitate everyday life as well as home, work, and sports environments by relieving pain, restoring normal function, and enhancing athletic performance. She hopes to educate and empower each of the patients using various evidence-based soft tissue manipulation, and customizable home care exercises. Before each treatment, she provides clients with a thorough assessment and a variety of special tests to ensure a treatment that is safe, and effective to fit each unique individual and their needs.

She is a proud graduate of West Coast College of Massage Therapy (WCCMT). She enjoys living an active lifestyle that includes indoor bouldering, outdoor rock climbing, and lifting weights. She also enjoys making crystal jewelry in her spare time.

Get to know more about her here: https://synergyhealthmanagement.com/team/marlissa-cawston/

The light that YOGA sheds on LIFE is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

- BKS Iyengar

People had less frequent episodes of low back pain when they walked regularly, according to a new study.

The research, published on June 19 in The Lancet, highlights the importance of walking as a simple health intervention, especially given the toll low back pain takes on patients and the healthcare system at large, experts said.

Here’s what experts had to say about the study, why walking may prevent back pain, and what to consider before adding more steps into your daily routine.

Study: This Simple Activity May Help Reduce Lower Back Pain Walking regularly may stave off episodes of low back pain, a new study has found. The report adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that low-impact workouts like walking provide immense health benefits, experts said.

Do you struggle with foot, knee, or back pain when exercising? Do you feel like you can never quite get comfortable or find the right shoes to support your feet?

At Synergy Health Centre, we believe that everyone should be able to move freely and without pain.

That’s why we offer Custom Orthotics, a service designed to help you find the right support for your feet and improve your overall athletic performance. Check out this post to know more. https://synergyhealthmanagement.com/service/custom-orthotics/

Massage Therapy

The original mood enhancer.

Many factors contribute to back pain, including lifting things improperly, age-related changes that degenerate discs in the spine, and medical conditions. Lifestyle plays a role, too: Being sedentary or not physically fit, stress, and sitting at a desk job with poor posture can all lead to lower back pain.

In this article, you'll discover the eight best expert-recommended exercises for lower back pain that you can try at home, starting today.

8 Best Exercises for Lower Back Pain: Expert-Recommended Moves Lower back pain is very common. These eight exercises recommended by physical therapists can help you feel better and stay active.

Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ) affects countless individuals, causing pain and dysfunction in the jaw joint and surrounding muscles. Chiropractic care has emerged as a key approach to managing TMJ symptoms effectively.

This blog post will discuss what TMJ is, explore the connection with neck misalignment, and evaluate the effectiveness of chiropractic treatments in resolving TMJ.

Addressing TMJ with Chiropractic Care: What You Need to Know Discover the potential of chiropractic care in treating TMJ, including practical advice on lifestyle changes and the supportive role of massage therapy in symptom relief.

Wellness Tip:

Walk everyday.
Get a little more physical activity in your daily life.

Exercise is often seen as “me time”—a moment to focus solely on yourself, your body, and your mind. So it’s no wonder traditional movement practices, whether it be weightlifting, running, or Pilates, are performed with earbuds in and zero small talk.

But there’s a case for incorporating some socialization into your fitness routine: Moving with others could enhance your well-being and longevity in the long run. Read on to discover more.

The Surprising Element You Need To Add to Your Exercise Routine for a Longer Life Incorporating community into your fitness routine comes with some serious benefits.

MEET JORDAN GILLIS. Dr. Jordan uses a variety of techniques to provide comprehensive treatment plans that focus on treating the entire body to not only resolve pain and prevent relapses, but also to help prevent future injuries. He achieves this by identifying any structural imbalances, biomechanical abnormalities or muscle weaknesses that may be contributing to the source of pain. The treatment techniques used by Dr. Jordan include Chiropractic Manipulative Therapy, Soft Tissue Therapies, rehabilitation exercises, cupping and a variety of other evidence based modalities. By taking a full body treatment approach he helps provide his patients the opportunity to take back their life without the fear of reinjuring themselves!

When Dr. Jordan isn’t at the clinic you’ll find him anywhere outdoors where he enjoys hiking, camping, paddle boarding and keeping active with his dog! He also loves sports and actively plays hockey, tennis, and golf.

Get to know more about him here: https://synergyhealthmanagement.com/team/dr-jordan-gillis/

Eating well is one of the easiest ways to LOVE YOURSELF.

- Roxana Jones

In this modern, fast-paced, digitally-powered world, eight hours of deep, uninterrupted sleep may sound more like an impossible dream. Between IRL routines and the long hours we spend in front of our screens, we are constantly being pulled in different directions within a span of 24 hours.

It then comes as no surprise that stress, anxiety, and fatigue have somewhat become a part of our everyday experience. Learn more in this post.

Healthy Habits And Bedside Rituals For A Good Night’s Sleep It then comes as no surprise that stress, anxiety, and fatigue have somewhat become a part of our everyday experience.

At Synergy Health Centre, we are dedicated to providing the highest level of chiropractic care to our patients. Our team of chiropractors in Victoria, BC is highly trained and experienced, and use a combination of techniques and technologies to diagnose and treat conditions.

This includes traditional manual adjustment techniques, as well as newer techniques such as Shockwave, Magnetolith EMTT, IMS, Graston, and ART. Our approach is personalized, ensuring that each patient receives a tailored treatment plan to meet their individual needs and goals. Find our more in this post. https://synergyhealthmanagement.com/service/chiropractic/

Stressed Out? Get a massage
Back Pain? Get a massage
Headache? Get a massage
Bad Day? Get a massage
Bored? Get a massage

Physical therapy is a healthcare specialty that includes the evaluation, assessment, and treatment of individuals with limitations in functional mobility.

Choosing physical therapy has been shown to help you recover quickly and safely, and it can save you money due to decreased overall healthcare costs. Read this post to learn more about physical therapy.

How Do You Know If You Need Physical Therapy? What is physical therapy and what happens during physical therapy treatments? How do you know if you need physcial therapy?

Scoliosis, a spinal condition characterized by an abnormal lateral curvature, affects many individuals, significantly impacting their quality of life. Chiropractic care offers a promising avenue for managing this condition without the need for invasive procedures.

This blog post delves into the causes of this condition, explores chiropractic treatments for scoliosis, and discusses the potential for correction of severe curves.

Managing Scoliosis: How a Chiropractor Can Help Find out how to manage scoliosis effectively with our comprehensive guide to chiropractic therapies. Learn which treatment is right for you and discover helpful lifestyle tips.

Did you know?

This stretch

-Stretches the hips, hamstrings, and calves
-Strengthens the thighs and knees
-Keeps your spine strong and flexible
-Reduces stress, anxiety, depression, and fatigue
-Calms the mind and soothes the nerves
-Relieves tension in the spine, neck and back
-Activates the abdominal muscles

A colon cleanse, also called a gut cleanse, is the process of forcibly flushing out the intestines; in other words, making you go to the bathroom. It is not a weight loss tool but rather thought to be a way to enhance a person's gut health by cleaning out waste.

It's important to note that the colon is a self-cleaning machine. It cleans itself through regular bowel movements to rid the body of waste and bacteria that, if built up, could cause symptoms like abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, etc. Read on.

This Organ Plays A Crucial Role In The Body; Here's How To Cleanse It What's the buzz about?

The best foods for joint health to fight arthritis:

1. Water
2. Garlic and Onion
3. Ginger
4. Chili Peppers
5. Cruciferous Vegetables
6. Pomegranates
7. Turmeric
8. Apple
9. Grapefruit
10. Beans, Seeds and Nuts
11. Carrot
12. Oranges
13. Pumpkin
14. Red Bell Pepper

Starting a conditioning routine at home can be a great way for beginners to improve their overall fitness levels and build strength, endurance, and flexibility. Whether you're new to exercise or looking for effective workouts to perform in the comfort of your own home, these are the 10 best at-home conditioning exercises for beginners.

10 Best Conditioning Exercises for Beginners To Do at Home A certified personal trainer reveals 10 of his best conditioning exercises for beginners to do at home for better strength and endurance.

Chiropractors at Synergy Health Centre recognize that poor posture can be a big contributor to spinal pain. Very often poor posture is a result of an existing muscle imbalance, pain or bad habits and conversely, having poor posture can also contribute to you developing pain and a muscle imbalance.

Over time a poor sitting posture and incorrect work ergonomics can damage spinal structures and become the cause of reoccuring pain. Our chiropractors at Synergy Health Centre place great emphasis on giving both postural and ergonomic advice as part of the chiropractic treatment.

Find out in this post how chiropractic care can help: https://synergyhealthmanagement.com/poor-posture-chiropractic/

Benefits of Exercising

1. Boosts physical health
2. Has positive effects on mental health
3. Improves longevity
4. Increases energy-levels
5. Promotes better sleep

Working out takes many forms, from cardio like running and swimming to strength training like lifting weights and Pilates.

But no matter your exercise of choice, there’s always a risk of causing stress to your body. You’ve likely experienced this firsthand, whether that was soreness when you laughed two days after an ab workout or that twinge in your leg after a long run. While you probably can’t eliminate post exercise discomfort, you can take concrete steps to improve recovery after a challenging workout.

Here are five things to do that could make a big impact on your physical well-being after a workout.

These 5 things may help improve recovery after a tough workout - Mayo Clinic Press While you probably can't eliminate postexercise discomfort, you can take concrete steps to improve recovery after a challenging workout.

Marc brings a wealth of experience to the Synergy Team. He has worked around the world as a registered physiotherapist on 3 continents. This makes him a dynamic clinician with exposure to a large variety of patients with many different injuries of all severities.

He is skilled in the treatment of all common conditions such as arthritis, rotator cuff injury, knee injuries, back pain and has specialized experience with all soft tissue injuries through incorporation of Active Release Techniques. He also utilizes Mulligan joint mobilization techniques for restoring joint mobility and integrity and manipulations for structural alignment. Marc also helps patients who have been injured at work or in a motor vehicle accident.

Get to know more about him here: https://synergyhealthmanagement.com/team/marc-baltazar/

Massage is time for recovery.

Regrouping.

Before we drift back into our personal lives.
Massage can't change the external factors that create tension and pain.
But it can help us slowly shift, heal and re-calibrate.
Giving our bodies and ourselves a fresh start.

Often overlooked, the psoas (so-as) is a centrally located hidden workhorse of the body. It’s a long, tenderloin-shaped stabilizer muscle that lies deep in your core. You have two of them, one on each side of the vertebral column in the lumbar region of your back. It connects the middle (thoracic) and lower (lumbar) parts of your spine and travels down through your pelvis. There, it blends with another muscle (the iliacus) across your hip joint and attaches to the top of your thigh bone.

Movement practitioners and physical therapists have different and preferred approaches to restoring balance in the body and easing psoas tension. Read on to find out how you can release psoas.

Is Your Hip Flexor Pain Actually a Tight Psoas Muscle? Unwind your psoas and unwind your whole body with these expert tips.

Spinal Decompression Therapy is a non-surgical painless procedure that uses a special computer-controlled table to relieve pressure on the spinal discs.

It is a state-of-the-art treatment that can help alleviate chronic back pain, neck pain, and sciatica caused by herniated, bulging, or degenerative discs.

Learn more in this post.

Spinal Decompression Victoria - Synergy Health Management Alleviate pain, improve mobility, and reduce nerve compression with our state-of-the-art spinal decompression treatments.