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Elbow Pain

Elbow Pain I wanted to do a new video for you guys regarding some elbow pain. If you have pain in your elbow, it’s most often diagnosed as tennis elbow or golfer’s elbow. Tennis elbow is usually associated with pain on the outside of the elbow and golfer’s elbow which is pain on the inside. […]

Range of Motion Exercise

Daily Range of Motion Exercise from Healthstar Chiropractic in Millwoods, Edmonton. I want to teach you how to do some neck exercises. So, for those of you with neck issues, one of the big things we want to do is an adjustment that unlocks the joints. We use our hands and specific instruments to create […]

Neck Band Exercise

Neck Band Exercise from Healthstar chiropractic in Millwoods, Edmonton. So, what do we do the adjustment? We are unlocking the joints using our hands and specific instruments…this creates motion in the joints. One of the things that we always want to do is give you things to do at home. So, one of the great […]

How to Fix Knee Pain

Good day, everybody. It’s after hours here at the office…  I often see patients come in and they have a particular concern.  Today, I wanted to do a little at talk and just briefly show you a few things about knee problems.  So many people are needing knee replacements because they have osteoarthritis. There is […]

Sciatica Exercises

Hey guys, Dr. Gervais here once again! I wanted to show you something about sciatica.  This is for those of you who are having an extreme amount of pain, either in your rear-end, or going down one or both legs. There’s an additional exercise that we’ll do in addition to the regular daily back exercises […]

How to Get Rid of Neck Pain and Fix Posture

You may notice that your neck gets stuck.  When we do the examination, we see how much you can move your neck.  We can often see if your neck has had some problems before by looking at x-rays. Get Rid of Neck Pain Video We want to identify the areas in your spine which are […]

How to Sit

I just had a couple of things I wanted to share with you regarding sitting because it’s patients unknowingly beat themselves up by sitting all day. Chiropractors encounter so many people that sit all day. In Edmonton, we have many so patients that commute from Edmonton to Fort Mac, and/or drive truck for 12 hours […]

Never Lift This Way

Welcome back!  I wanted to show you something that almost everybody gets wrong… if you walked down any Edmonton street and asked everyone: Hey, how do you lift the right way?  Every single person is gonna say: Well, you lift with your legs and not your back!  The reality is: Even though everyone “knows” that, […]

Rib Pain

I want to talk to you guys about rib pain. From time to time, everyone will bend or twist the wrong way and what ends up happening is you start getting your chest pains and it feels like someone’s stabbing something sharp into your chest. Now that pain that you experience might go around the […]

Daily Back Exercises

We’re going to go over some basic exercises.  Now these are exercises that many of you should be doing particularly if you’ve got lower back troubles or sciatica.  Sciatica is pain down your rear end or down into your leg.  There’s a few fundamental things you want to do:  The bird dog exercise.  You want […]