Sunrae Massage and Wellness

01/21/2025

Your reminder to stay hydrated, especially after a massage. 🧊 Drinking water replenishes lost fluids, aids in healthy circulation, and helps deliver oxygen and nutrients to the muscles and organs.

01/01/2025

12/25/2024

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.

09/30/2024

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the survivors of Canadian residential schools and the families and communities impacted by this painful part of Canada's history.

Take time today to reflect and learn about Indigenous history in Canada, raise awareness of the impacts of these schools, and learn about the steps to reconciliation.

Visit the resources below to learn more.
🧡 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/national-day-truth-reconciliation.html
🧡 NDTR Fact Sheet:https://www.aptn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NDTR-Fact-Sheet-ENG.pdf
🧡 Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/
🧡 The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: https://nctr.ca/
🧡 First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness 24/7 Help Line: https://www.hopeforwellness.ca/

The NHPC office is closed on Monday, September 30, in recognition.

09/16/2024

September is Arthritis Awareness Month. According to Arthritis Society Canada, 1 in 5 Canadians live with arthritis, a collection of conditions affecting joints and other tissues. It causes pain, restricts mobility and diminishes quality of life.

Arthritis can be caused by underlying health problems, long-term repetitive activity (e.g. desk work), or simply the anatomy of the wrist.

Massage therapy can help. Learn how in this article from Arthritis.ca: https://arthritis.ca/living-well/2018/using-massage-therapy-to-treat-arthritis-pain

07/31/2024

A lot of us have an intellectual understanding of fascia in the body. Only when working through layers of tissue on cadavers does one gain a full appreciation of the sheer magnitude. Our muscular connections are practically an afterthought. Structurally speaking, fascia definitely rules the day.

07/13/2024

Any exercise regardless of how "functional" or "non-functional" it looks, if it's improving someone's movement experience it's a "functional" exercise.

If someone is feeling restricted at their ribcage, making it more difficult to rotate their torso, I might give them some rib mobility exercises that they can do themselves.

There's nothing "functional" in how these exercises look however, many times it can improve how someone feels as they rotate.

If they feel better they'll move more.

Moving more over time will increase their mobility and help restore the ability to more effortlessly rotate the torso which is an everyday movement in walking or turning.

Any small stepping stone that builds the individual's capacity to function better in daily life or in their sport is functional.

Improve their experience, improve their capacity to function.

Movement is medicine

Tom

07/06/2024

Started using the Noterro AI for my health histories and I can’t believe how it is helping me with my efficiency and accuracy in my note taking as I can quickly dictate between clients . It is easy to use and I am not a real technical person .
# NoterroScribe

06/20/2024

You don't need to look a certain way to be fit and healthy.

Fitness is there to improve the quality of your life.

Focus on how you feel 💯

Movement is medicine

Tom

05/27/2024

05/21/2024

Hi Everyone,
We are in our new Location!!!
New address :
Suite 204
10211 - 100 avenue
Looking forward to seeing you there .

04/18/2024

When we "elongate" a tissue it's more a change in the angles of the collagen fibers than a genuine change in length.

This is a useful protective mechanism to reduce the risk of injury. In many ways the body is an anti-stretch organism.

We can change tissue size and length but this takes time and progressive loading.

In the moment, a change in body shape comes from a change in the geometry of our tissues.

Movement is medicine

Tom