Exercises to do at your desk: Working from home

With the changes to our lives that have come as a result of the pandemic, many of our clients have been dealing with more and more issues. The added screen time and working from home (wherever we can make space) has taken its toll on our bodies.

To help prevent some of these issues it is important to make sure we get up or change our work positions whenever we can, ideally this would be every 30-60 minutes. You can try to take your conference calls standing or plan a walking meeting, move your computer to the kitchen counter or put a box or your desk so you can go from sitting to standing every once and a while, or even try kneeling at your desk. Check out this video for alternatives to sitting at your desk.

The most common thing we hear from our clients about working is that they have neck tension or pain. There are a number of things you can do to help prevent this and also manage it throughout the work day. This video walks you through the proper neck position. A great way to prevent issues is to set an alarm for a few times a day to remind you to get back into this position!

If you are already dealing with some neck discomfort, doing some easy stretches throughout the work day will help you manage the discomfort while you work on improving your work station and neck position. This video goes over an easy one to do while sitting at your desk.

The other thing many people are dealing with because of the increase in screen time is eye fatigue and dryness. This occurs because when we are looking at screens we blink less than we would normally so our eyes dry out. Here are two videos with different eye exercises for fatigue and dryness that are quick and easy to do:

Eye Exercises: Part 1

Eye Exercises: Part 2

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To book an appointment you will click on the orange button in the top right corner that says ‘Book an Appointment’ which will bring you to this page. 

On the left hand side you will see all the appointment types and their descriptions. Select the type of appointment you would like to book.

Once you have selected the type of appointment you would like to book it will show you the available times for the appointment. You can click on the time that works for you to book your appointment 

Once you have selected the time, a window will pop up asking if you would like to book more appointments, if you are done booking or if you have booked by mistake.

For more help on how to set up your account and book an appointment watch this video:

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Why I Became a Physiotherapist

As a teenager I was a competitive athlete, competing in flatwater canoe and kayak racing. I loved it. It was my passion. In the summers I would spend all day on the water training and in winters would go to Florida for a couple weeks to train. When I was 14 or 15 I had my best year ever, was breaking all my personal records and doing very well at regattas in both team and individual events, and then I got hurt.

I was able to get through practice but would spend the whole practice in tears because of how much pain I was in. It got to the point where I realized I had to see someone. I went to a physiotherapist who told me that I had to stop training, at very least take a 3-month break with no activity and then we could talk. I was devastated. That wasn’t an option for me. I was used to practicing 3 times a day. I felt like I had to reinvent myself, paddling and being an athlete was my whole identity. I didn’t know what to do with myself. In that moment I felt that there must be a better way than to do nothing and also a huge amount of frustration towards my injury and this person who was supposed to help me.

As I got older I realized that I had to turn this frustration into something positive. So I went to school to be come a physiotherapist and entered the work force. I soon realized that I wasn’t going to able to accomplish my goal to change how rehab was done while working for someone else because most clinics allowed me only 15-20 minutes per client. This time constraint didn’t allow me to help people the way I wanted to and felt I needed to. I could see the same frustration that I had felt years before on my client’s faces when they came in and it became a source of frustration for me as well.

I knew that I had to make a change and start my own business, where I didn’t have the same time constraints and I could figure out the root cause of was wrong and therefore what was needed for people to get better, and guess what? People started getting better faster. I was able to see people less frequently and they were having better results. It was at this point that I felt like I had found my place and achieved what I wanted to. Now my focus is to keep doing what I do better and faster so my clients can continue doing the activities they love to do.