Kara Idland RMT

04/10/2023

10:15 opening tomorrow
403 352 7979 or
Collegiatesportsmedicine.ca to book

10/26/2022

Pain = being human 🤗

More humiliating micro injuries of aging:

• Woke up and stretched too strongly.

• Hopped a little to reach a high shelf.

• Jogged a half block to try to catch a bus (pulled a hamstring, still missed the bus).

• Sneezed while head turned! ⚠️

• Looked up at something on the ceiling for a few seconds too long. (Yep, it was a 🕷.)

For sure this is an aging thing, and everyone over the age of 50 knows all about it.

But it’s also something that every fibromyalgia patient knows, whether they are 20 or 60. Anyone with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, at any age, can tell you similar stories. A little cervical myelopathy (spinal cord irritation) will do this too. Many autoimmune diseases make people “injury prone,” often for years before diagnosis.

And so on, and on, and on! The full list of conditions that can make you “injury prone” and hurty is disturbingly long. There are more paths to pain than anyone can ever even hear about, let alone reliably diagnose.

PainScience.com/ways_to_hurt

UPDATE (inspired by comments):

And then there’s also a weird gray zone between disease and age: basically AGING PREMATURELY due to overall poor fitness, lousy diet, and other stressors, via the fascinating mechanism of “inflammaging.” See:

https://www.painscience.com/inflammation

~ Paul Ingraham, PainScience.com publisher

06/17/2022

02/11/2022

Reminder that your “ bad posture” likely isn’t the cause of pain. But more likely to be sustained posture or lack of movement throughout the day.

Get up and move! 😃

Let's worry less about posture and focus more on movement!⁣
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The more you move, the less posture matters.⁣
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If you need to crank out an hour worth of emails, try not to sit like a gargoyle. Otherwise, focus more on taking small movement breaks every half hour.⁣
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Here are some movement break ideas:⁣
🔷Climb the nearest staircase⁣
🔷20 squats⁣
🔷10 push-ups⁣
🔷Reach for the sky then touch your toes 10x⁣
🔷Browse my recent posts and find an exercise or stretch that looks cool! ⁣via
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05/28/2021

03/10/2021

01/27/2021

Hi everyone! I’ve been noticing new people viewing my page and wanted to introduce myself again.

I am Kara 👋 I have been a Registered Massage Therapist for 6 years and recently graduated from MOCC completing the Manual Osteopathic therapy program.
The past 2.5 years I have also worked for Alberta College of Massage Therapy as a supervisor, teacher’s assistant and now teacher.

I currently work at Black Rock Therapies and have for 2.5 years as well as ACMT.

I am always accepting new clients for both massage and manual osteopath.

My working hours are

Monday 9-4:30
Tuesday 2-8:15
Wednesday 9-2
Thursday 9-2

Call or text 587 802 0840 to book

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01/27/2021

UPDATE on appointment requirements:

For those of you who are not aware of the changes, NOTES are NO LONGER REQUIRED for massage or osteo appointments.

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