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Video Blog: How to properly lift a canoe without hurting your back

Backcountry canoe camping is an excellent way to decrease stress and improve your mental health. However, if you don't lift a canoe properly you risk back injuries or making an existing back issue worse.

Amy Fahlman, a CAMPT-Certified physiotherapist, talks about how backcountry canoe camping is an excellent way to decrease stress and improve your mental health. However, if you don't lift a canoe properly you risk back injuries or making an existing back issue worse.
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How backcountry camping can decrease stress, pain, and renew your appreciation for life.
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As a physiotherapist, I commonly encounter how a high demand, high distraction lifestyle manifests not only as mental anguish, but physical pain.  Recent research has shown that you can reverse these negative effects by spending time in nature.   These are the top 5 reasons to backcountry camp. 

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Physio In Your Pocket: Rolling the Foot to Relieve Foot Pain during CrossFit

How to properly roll the foot to relieve foot pain or cramping from such injuries as plantar fasciitis.

Amy Fahlman, a CAMPT-Certified physiotherapist, talks about one of her passions CrossFit and how Plantar Fasciitis, foot pain, or foot cramping is a common condition as a result. In this video, Amy explains how to properly roll the foot to help relieve CrossFit foot pain and camping.

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Video Blog: Shoulder Pain and CrossFit

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Amy Fahlman, a CAMPT-Certified physiotherapist, talks about one of her passions CrossFit and shoulder pain or shoulder strain that may result. In this video, Amy will explain why CrossFit shoulder injuries can happen and how physiotherapy, manual therapy and exercise can help. 

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