Lauren Oberon RMT

05/26/2025

As of today I can officially practice acupuncture within the scope of practice of massage therapy! Great success! You can now enjoy acupuncture as a part of your treatment plan (if you so choose!) when you come to see me. Hope everyone is having a lovely spring!

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10/20/2024

I haven't been using social media much, either for professional or personal reasons. If you are trying to reach me to make a massage therapy appointment, please either book through my website or phone me at 613-362-7833, I will only be checking this sporadically for the upcoming months.

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08/28/2024

I can help my clients design an appropriate exercise program to help manage their chronic pain!

This appears to be a direct correlation between more exercise and a better ability to handle pain—the higher a person’s total activity levels, the greater their pain tolerance.

08/22/2024

Massage therapy is so useful for so many different health conditions, but it also just feels good to take care of ourselves! What a handy summary of the benefits according to research!

Massage therapy is a clinically-oriented healthcare option that is used alongside standard medical care to help manage a number of symptoms. This post highlights systematic reviews and meta-analyses that support the use of massage therapy. Based on these systematic reviews massage therapy has a grow

07/19/2024

It is very important to maintain a positive outlook for pain management, for both clinical outcomes and perception. This study showed that when people catastrophize their pain it leads to lack of movement and interest in daily life, leading to the worsening of their condition.

In this way, "I can't stand the pain anymore", or "I will never feel better" acts as a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Catastrophizing one's pain early in the day can kick-start a vicious cycle of avoiding exercise, sitting too much, and having even more catastrophic thoughts the following day.

07/17/2024

I was having some issues with my phone plan so I changed providers. Mailbox is not set up but number is the same. Everything should be back to normal by tomorrow morning.

07/15/2024

Some evening availability this week! Hope everyone is staying cool in this heat!

07/15/2024

Experience of pain has many factors and chronic pain can stack and cycle because of this.

Development of chronic musculoskeletal pain can be influenced by socioeconomics, fear of movement, smoking and poorer support networks, new research shows.

07/10/2024

In a report today in Nature, scientists led by Zhigang He, PhD, and Clifford Woolf, PhD, of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s, demonstra

07/08/2024

I am committed to helping you explore exercise options for your ability level!

WASHINGTON — Chronic pain, or pain that lasts over three months that you experience most or every day, affects more than 20% of adults in the United States; about 50 million people. While the source of pain is not always known, one potentially effective, non-pharmaceutical intervention is getting ...

06/30/2024

I'm opening up some afternoon availability this week as my trip to Toronto was canceled! Book easily through my website or contact me for more information!

06/24/2024

Over two decades, the use of magnetic resonance imaging and other high-tech scans for low back pain increased by 50 percent in developed countries. Medical societies have launched campaigns to convince physicians and patients to forgo the unnecessary images, to little avail. Why is imaging so common...