Healing Series #1 – Healing Scrapes
You are out walking and you get scraped by a branch. You feel it and when you look you can see that the skin is just slightly torn and rough. In a couple of spots you can see blood oozing to the...
View ArticleHealing Series #2 – Deep Wounds
You are chopping onions and your knife slips a bit and you cut your finger tip. As fingers, with there plentiful supply of blood, are prone to, it bleeds, a lot. You put some pressure on the wound,...
View ArticleA healing sidebar – Inflammation
I want to elaborate on an important process that is essential to healing in the human body – inflammation. As I have moved further into my healing series I realized that it would be beneficial to take...
View ArticleHealing Series #3 – Muscle Strains
Trying out skates for the first time in over a decade, sticking close to the wall, wobbling along. You come up on someone even slower than you (shocking!) and decide to brave open ice and go around....
View ArticleHealing Series #4 – Sprains
I was trying to stop my toddler from running about the parking lot while coaxing my slightly lame dog into the back of the minivan. In frustration, I bent forward, wrapped my arms around the dog’s...
View ArticleHealing Series #5 – fractures
Have you ever broken a bone? Felt something go crunch and known that there were things moving against each other inside you that shouldn’t be? Did you have the trip to the emergency room, the...
View ArticleAromatherapy Products 2 – first aid spray
In addition to the signature scented products I have two other blends I am stocking regularly. The first is a spray for use on scrapes and abrasions. It uses tea tree hydrosol in a base of comfrey gel...
View ArticleE-patients
I love TED Talks. A few months ago now my husband introduced me to TED and I have become a huge fan. I follow TED on facebook so that every day I can see what is up in that world. Their talks range...
View Articlem-Medicine – the future of your doctor’s smartphone?
This weekend I was reading an article in the Globe and Mail regarding the impact of technology on health care, specifically mobile technology. The article referenced several areas in which mobile...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress 3 – Vancouver, BC, Day 1
***Beware – this post is a total fascia geekfest, if you are not prepared to deal with that, read a different post! Also, any factual errors are my faulty memory, not faulty presentations.*** Today...
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