Healing Essentials Therapeutic Massage

11/12/2024

This coming Monday November 18, we will be donating our combined earnings for the day to our local Salvation Army! We encourage people to pop in to make a donation and would like to challenge other RMTs in Swift Current to contribute to this great cause. With the holiday season quickly approaching, this means stress for a lot of families to make ends meet and provide an enjoyable Christmas for their loved ones.

11/11/2024

In honour of all the brave souls who have fought and served, WE REMEMBER 🇨🇦

11/06/2024

Fun day at the office this morning…”Take your kid to work day!” 💙
Boys learned to fold fitted sheets, take payment and issue receipts, and clean our rooms/make our tables. Of course there was some time spent puzzling 😉
I’m sure if you asked them, their favourite part was the lunch break lol

03/31/2024

09/30/2023

Your big toe is incredibly important for walking, running, stability, and balance. In order to perform its duties properly, it needs a certain minimum of mobility. Ideally, one should have at least 60 degrees of extension available. Anything less than that and the body has to find alternate ways of moving that can have repercussions throughout the body. These can include over-pronating, walking on the outsides of the feet, hip, knee, and low back pain. These exercises can be helpful. https://rfr.bz/f6q3e41

09/09/2023

It's been understood for more than a millennium that the body alternates between predominantly using the left and right nostrils to breathe -- in anywhere from 30 minute to 4 hour cycles. This wasn’t verified experimentally until the late 1800’s. At the time, no one really knew what it was for and offered multiple dubious explanations. What has since been learned is that the body does this to help regulate a number of bodily functions and processes. Air taken through the right nostril stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, increasing circulation, cortisol levels, blood pressure, heart rate, etc. Air taken through the left nostril stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, lowering blood pressure, heart rate, cooling the body and reducing anxiety. And to answer the obvious question, yes -- selectively breathing through one nostril or the other CAN be used therapeutically.

07/31/2023

07/01/2023

Happy Canada Day 🍁

06/18/2023

I definitely love my sandals but this is something to think about for sure ☀️

Flip-flops are famously rough on the body and it's NOT just because they lack support. They encourage flexion of the toes (to hold the shoe to your foot) at a time in gait when you should be EXTENDING the toes. The result is compensation throughout the body, especially the neck.

06/02/2023

We’ve closed up shop today to serve margaritas at the 2nd Annual Darren McClelland Memorial golf tournament! Thought we better get a photo at the beginning of the day 😉

06/02/2023

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A common cause of iliotibial band (ITB) tightness is entrapment of the deep fibular nerve. It often gets hung up between the muscles of the lower leg creating weakness that the hip and ITB are left to compensate for.

05/14/2023

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Hope your day is magical 💐