Holiday Office Hours: Christmas: We will be closed for Christmas from December 24th through December 28th and will reopen for regular hours on Friday December 28th. New Years: We will be closed January 1st and 2nd and will reopen on January 3rd for our regular hours.  We wish all of our patients a safe, healthy and happy holiday season!

No two people are the same.  Seems obvious right?  Then why are there so many chiropractic and physiotherapy clinics in Ottawa placing patients on identical treatment plans, regardless of their presenting condition? Example: Patient 1 presents to our office with obvious symptoms of lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow).  They first visited a different chiropractic clinic in the city and were told that their elbow pain was a result of degeneration in the cervical spine (neck region). […]

Are you religiously performing sit-ups/crunches, “super mans” with wrist or ankle weights, or seated lumbar extensions with a weight stack?  …all in hopes of strengthening specific muscles in your “core” to help “cure” or prevent ongoing lower back problems?  If so, you may be in for a surprise.  Many of us are of the mindset that adding more weight to our abdominal exercises, or targetting specific core muscles like the ever-so-popular transverse abdominis may be […]

Our downtown Ottawa Physiotherapy and Chiropractic centre will be offering a post-partum core conditioning class for women.  The first class will be ready for March 2013  These classes will be covered through private 3rd party chiropractic and physiotherapy health insurance. Please stay tuned for updates regarding these classes. Your Downtown Ottawa Physiotherapy and Chirorpactic Team, Shelagh Haynes & Chad Wilson