Happy New Year! All of us here at Elevation Physiotherapy hope you had a wonderful holiday season. As you set goals for 2024, we hope keeping active will be a priority. Since 2007, there has been accumulating scientific evidence that suggests that resistance training (weight training) is a safe and effective approach for improving cardiovascular […]

Heel pain. Ugh. It’s excruciating first thing in the morning. Sitting is fine but the first 20 steps afterwards is terrible. It gets worse the longer you stand. Running is out of the question. You tried once out of frustration but you paid for it the next day when you could barely walk.  You Google […]

One year. Happy One Year Anniversary to our Radial Shockwave Machine! After nearly 1 million “shocks” or pulses delivered, it’s time to evaluate how this technology has contributed to our practise. Welcome to the August blog everyone and we hope you are having a restful, active and enjoyable summer! Shockwave therapy was first introduced and […]

Golf is a game of love and hate. One hole you’re on top of the world and then the next you’re asking yourself why did I buy these clubs, why did I drive 45 minutes to this place, why did I pay the expensive course fees to ruin my Saturday afternoon?  Hi! I’m Nick MacLeod. I […]

By far, the 2 most common conditions we see at our Clinic is low back pain followed closely by shoulder pain. For our March blog, Danielle Bles discusses a common condition that affects shoulders called Frozen Shoulder. What is it and what can be done to treat this painful condition?  Read on!  Frozen shoulder or […]

No doubt you have seen them. Brightly colored elastic tape on shoulders, calves, knees used by high-profile athletes on television. When an Olympic athlete uses them and supports them, then this will inevitably influence weekend warriors, patients and health practitioners to use them. But how useful are these? Does the scientific evidence support their use […]