Ottawa Health: Performance and Rehab

09/24/2025

Your blood sugar tells an important story about your health. 🩸
Regular blood glucose monitoring isn’t just for people with diabetes — it can help anyone understand how food, stress, sleep, and activity affect their body.

🔹 Detect imbalances early
🔹 Prevent energy crashes & brain fog
🔹 Support weight management & metabolic health
🔹 Reduce long-term risk of diabetes and heart disease

Our Point-of-Care blood testing for HbA1C is quick (15 mins), reliable and only requires 1 drop of blood. Knowledge is power — and knowing your numbers is the first step to taking control of your health.

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09/22/2025

The nervous system can tighten muscles as a protective response.

When the body senses a potential threat — such as injury, instability, or even pain — the brain and spinal cord may increase muscle tension to “guard” the area. This is sometimes called muscle guarding or a protective spasm.

For example:
1. If you sprain your ankle, the surrounding muscles tighten to stabilize the joint.
2. With back pain, the spinal muscles often contract to limit movement and prevent further strain.
3. Even stress or emotional tension can trigger the nervous system to hold muscles tight, especially in the neck and shoulders.

This response is helpful short-term, but if the nervous system keeps signaling protection after the danger has passed, the muscles can stay chronically tight — leading to stiffness, pain, or trigger points.

09/19/2025

Did you know many headaches actually start in your neck?
Trigger points in key muscles can send pain into the head, face, and behind the eyes.

🔹 Suboccipitals — tightness here often causes pressure headaches at the base of the skull and pain that radiates to the forehead.
🔹 Upper Trapezius — trigger points can create pain up the side of the head, sometimes mimicking a tension headache.
🔹 Sternocleidomastoid (SCM) — can refer pain to the temples, around the eyes, or even cause dizziness.

Addressing these trigger points through posture correction, stretching, and therapy can significantly reduce headache frequency and intensity. Relief often starts in the neck!

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09/16/2025

Have you ever feel a knot in your muscle that sends pain somewhere else?
That’s a trigger point.

🔹 They’re tight, irritable spots in muscle fibers
🔹 Can cause referred pain (felt in another area)
🔹 Often linked to stress, poor posture, or overuse

Releasing trigger points through stretching, massage, or other targeted therapy like acupuncture can reduce pain, improve movement, and help your muscles function at their best. 💪

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09/11/2025

09/08/2025

Did you know Nurse Practitioners can do much more than you might think?
Nurse Practitioners are highly trained healthcare providers who blend medical expertise with a holistic approach to care.

✅ Diagnose and treat common conditions
✅ Order tests & prescribe medications
✅ Refer to specialists or diagnostic imaging
✅ Focus on prevention and lifestyle support
✅ Spend more time listening and guiding your health journey

Seeing an NP means having a partner who looks at the whole picture — helping you stay healthy, manage concerns early, and feel supported every step of the way.

09/02/2025

Migraines can be more than just a headache — they can disrupt your whole day. As a way to maintain productivity but manage the intensity, using Red Light can help!

Reducing the amount of Blue light wavelengths that enter your retina reduces the overall aggravation of the photophobia, otherwise known as light aversion, than many people have with a migraine.

The best part? Red light doesn't need to be some fancy, expensive device. Simply using a red light bulb or putting a red-t-shirt over a light source does the trick. Please ensure no fire hazzards prior to using fabric over light sources!!

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08/26/2025

Before we prescribe medicine, let’s prescribe food.
So often, chronic symptoms—fatigue, bloating, brain fog, joint pain—are the body’s way of asking for better fuel, not just another pill.

The right foods can:
✅ Calm inflammation
✅ Stabilize blood sugar
✅ Support gut and hormone health
✅ Reduce reliance on medications over time

✨ Our private medical members have a complimentary holistic nutritionist assessment as part of their membership!
Your healing might begin with your next meal. Speak with our holistic nutritionist today!

08/25/2025

Congratulations to .ricoraigoza for his first place🥇 finish in the 66kg weight class at the Canadian Powerlifting Centrals competition this past weekend in Quebec city at the most beautiful venue: Manège militaire Voltigeurs de Québec.

Coming down from the 74kg weight class proved to be tougher than he had anticipated with losing weight while also trying to maintain strength - but it came with many lessons as well.

The most important part is that we try. With all we have - and then try again. Provincials at 74 kg coming up in 8 weeks!

08/22/2025

Making sustainable habits does not mean the process comes effortlessly.

Start small and build over time. That goes for small and large changes you wish to make. Change is difficult, there is a resistance or friction to our old ways we need to overcome.

It comes with self reflection and openly analyzing the habits that need changing. You will need to persist, even when the tide is against you.

Your learning in the process is empowering - as time goes on the effort will begin to feel lessened and eventually it's just the new you.

08/18/2025

The aftermath of most motor vehicle accidents often brings physical and psychological distress. If you find yourself in such unfortunate circumstances, it’s important to remember that you don’t have to navigate the healing journey by yourself.

How We Can Help:

Access to Funds:
Many victims of car accidents are unaware of the funding that is available to them through their insurance policies. The Ottawa Health Team will assist you in every step of the way to ensure you get the benefits that you are entitled to.

Affiliated Partnerships:
We are fortunate to have established various partnerships that help us and our patients. This includes various law firms, occupational therapists, personal trainers and more.

Medical Access:
We are one of the few facilities in Ontario that has a medical department with access to specialists, MRI requisitions, and any other medical need to help expedite your needs.

Call us to get back on the road to recovery (pun intended ;)