The Muscle And Joint Podcast

I had a patient come in to the clinic a few weeks ago, and we started discussing about the challenges with maintaining a work/life balance while working from home. She mentioned how her work has taken over her home, with boxes of files now accenting her furniture. Her work area transitions between the dining table, living room, to even her bed! Working from home has become the new norm during the...

See The Full Post Here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/Mississauga/spine-muscle-and-joint-pain-at-work/ See The Stretching Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zy6edzzH18 According to the Canadian Chiropractic Association (CCA) 2017 report, All Pain, No Gain: Shining a Light on Canada’s Back Pain and Opioid Crisis, almost 90 per cent of Canadians have experienced muscle and/or joint pain in the...

See The Full Post Here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/Mississauga/four-fitness-motivators/ Here are four fitness motivators to help you get started: 1. Have a distraction Research studies show that people who have a distraction are more likely to stick with a fitness activity than people who don’t. Brisk walking outdoors provides its own distractions. The scenery and street activity will keep your sen...

See The Full Post Here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/Mississauga/walking-can-help-burn-fat/ Calorie Calculator: https://www.runtastic.com/blog/en/calories-burned-walking-vs-running/ Yes you read that correctly! Walking is a great way to burn calories and reduce excess fat storage in the body. It’s a simple exercise that can improve your cardiovascular health, manage weight loss, prevent diabetes and...

See the blog post here It’s hard to jump out of bed for a great day when your muscles are stiff and your joints creaky. But you can change that by warming up and stretching before your feet ever touch the floor. “Stretching before getting out of bed can help wake up the body and improve the circulation. It can also turn on the parasympathetic system – the ‘rest and digest’ system — which puts us i...

See The Blog Post Here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/Mississauga/laser-therapy-exercise-help-shoulder-impingement/ A recent study in the Dec 14th, 2020 edition of Clinical Rehabilitation investigated the benefits of laser therapy with exercise on patient’s suffering from shoulder impediment syndrome. This randomized control trial involved 120 participants who were suffering from subacromial impingeme...

See The Full Post Here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/Mississauga/stay-standing-this-winter/ Fall Prevention Tips From Your Mississauga Chiropractor Falling on ice can leave you red-faced with embarrassment, or far more seriously, hurt badly from taking a knee to the ice or falling awkwardly on icy snow. Slippery sidewalks, driveways and icy parking lots can be risk factors for falls in winter. Avoid...

See The Full Post Here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/Mississauga/resolution-end-resolutions/ I have a lot of patients preparing to start living a healthy lifestyle in the new year; the dreaded new year’s resolution. But a new year’s resolution is probably the worst way to start a healthy lifestyle; I’ll explain. As you may have heard, new year’s resolutions are destined to fail. In fact, only 8% of p...

See the post here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/Mississauga/final-thoughts-on-2020/ Over the past month, I have been mentally reviewing many different iterations of this end of year message, and how to best convey my thoughts and feelings about the year that just transpired. As the year draws to an end, many opinions about 2020 are being voiced online. Most of these opinions about 2020 have been expr...

Written By : Dr Malik See The Full Post Here  If you’re an avid runner, or if you are planning to start running, I am sure this question has crossed your mind. Does running cause long term knee damage? Or even worse, does running cause knee arthritis? On the surface, one would expect that constant loading and unloading of the knee joint would cause irreparable damage. Fortunately, however thi...

Written By Dr Malik To See The Full Post Click Here Arthritis affects about one in five Canadians or more than six million people. Many people living with this condition say they need help to complete daily tasks because arthritis limits their abilities. With symptoms like stiffness and often painful inflammation, arthritis limits your mobility and how well you can move your joints. Chiropractic c...

Written By Dr Malik To See This Blog Post Click Here As you may have noticed, Covid-19 cases in the province of Ontario and around the world are increasing once again. Daily counts have been increasing progressively since mid-August. Similarly, this phenomenon occurred during the 1918 pandemic, with the second wave starting about 4 months after the peak of the first wave. There were a total of thr...

See The Full Post Here: https://muscleandjoint.ca/seven-reasons-to-stay-active-during-covid19/ For many of us, reducing the spread of COVID-19 has meant long periods of isolation at home. This pandemic has disrupted our routines, shoving exercise to the bottom of our to-do lists. But we know that keeping your body moving is important, here are a few important reasons for you to stay active: 1) It...

See The Full Post Here Exercises to Avoid If You Have Back Pain Physical activity is a great way to prevent and treat back pain – but did you know that some exercises can do more harm than good? To avoid putting too much strain on the joints, ligaments, and muscles in your back, here is a list of exercises to avoid, as well as some alternatives. Talk to your chiropractor to determine which exercis...

Written By: Dr Ayesha Qureshi Proper supplementation can help with good health. At the Muscle and Joint Clinic, our team of Naturopaths can help keep your body healthy and functioning properly by ensuring you supplementing correctly. Here are a list of supplements a Naturopathic Doctor can help you with: o   Number One: Vitamin D . According to Stats Canada, about thirty-two percent of Canadi...

Dr. Ayesha Qureshi, ND Naturopathic Doctor September is here which means back to school! This year, back to school may have a different ring to it. Whether you or your child are physically back to school or doing distant learning, we can all agree that focusing on immune health is important this fall. If you are a first time parent sending your little one to school or are just wanting some si...

See The Blog Post Here Written by Dr Malik Just start walking – It’s the simplest thing you can do to get a workout in. Even 15 minutes a day can start you on the way to an activity habit, keep in mind that movement is improvement. Walking is the easiest choice when the weather is agreeable but don’t let a little rain or light snow keep you indoors. Here’s how you can get the most value from walki...

See The Blog Post Here Written by Dr Malik The beach is probably the most therapeutic getaway nature has to offer. The heat of the sun combined with the coolness of the water provides great therapy to help relieve stiff muscles and  joint pain. Not only is going to the beach therapeutic for your physical body, but it is also helpful for your mental wellbeing too. There are a few reasons why g...

See Our Blog Post Here You might have seen posture corrector advertisements on a television show or social media post. These are devices that claim to help correct posture if worn throughout the day. These devices are worn like a backpack and help pull the shoulders into a more neutral position. The manufacturers of these products claim many health benefits such as better posture, reduced pain and...

Dr Malik is a practicing Chiropractor in Mississauga and Milton, Ontario, Canada. Dr Malik helps to describe what do Chiropractors do and how they help you. Who are Chiropractors? Chiropractors are primary care physicians that specialize in the treatment of muscle, joint and nerve conditions. Chiropractors make up one of the largest primary contact health care professions in Canada, with over 7000...

This month, I had two patients inquire about diastasis recti. As common as this condition is, it is seldom talked about. Given the prevalence of this condition and the pain it can cause, we decided to shed some light on it in this month’s podcast. (View our blog post here) Diastasis recti, also called the ‘pooch’, is when the belly sticks out due to the separation of the left and right abdominal m...

See the blog post here.  Why do I have noisy joints, and does popping cause arthritis? This is a question I get asked frequently at the clinic. To understand why our joints can cause so much popping and clicking, we need to first understand the structure of a joint. By definition a joint is where two bones connect. Between the joints there is a fluid present called the synovial fluid. Within this...

By Dr. Tanvi Tijoriwala, ND View The Our Blog Post  Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), also known as irritable colon or spastic colon is a digestive concern characterized by symptoms such as stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation and/or bloating. The symptoms vary from person-to-person and severely affects a person’s quality of life. For example, IBS sufferers may not be able to eat at restaurants with...

Written by: Dr Malik Read by John Williams If you are foodie, this is probably a question that has been burning on your mind. According to the Health Canada website, there are no reported cases of Covid19 being spread via food. However if you are eating takeout there are a few precautions you must keep in mind: ·  Use common cleaning and disinfection methods to kill coronaviruses. ·  Wash your han...

Written by Dr Malik Read By John Williams See our post here Why is strength training important? A recent study found that people who did strength training for just one hour a week had a lower risk of heart attack, stroke, and death from heart disease compared with people who didn’t do any. The two main factors that seemed to mediate this benefit were stronger quadriceps muscles (the muscles in the...