This month in anticipation for the VHI Mini Marathon, we will be doing a special blog series covering important topics. This week is about shoes and cross training.

During your VHI Mini Marathon training it is important to incorporate recovery days! Running is demanding and your body needs rest/active recovery for 1-3 days per week

While training for the VHI Mini Marathon it is very important to add in warm-ups and a cool downs to your daily training plan. Completing a warm-up will not only prevent injury, but will allow your body to properly adapt to running.

You may have heard some of these terms to describe overuse conditions like tennis elbow, Achilles tendonitis or plantar fasciitis. Let’s go through these terms and what they mean for your recovery.

During the course of pregnancy, your body will change and adapt in order to accommodate for the extra weight that your body will be carrying. You may experience changes to not only your stomach as your pregnancy progresses but also to your posture, legs and feet.

Whiplash, also referred to as neck sprain, is a soft tissue injury to the neck. Whiplash can cause pain and stiffness and can be extremely uncomfortable. 

Playing an instrument can be a very taxing task as musicians hold very specific postures and can complete very repetitive movements over long periods of time while practising.

Physical therapy has been around for thousands of years and the root of some practices can be traced back to Roman and even Egyptian times. Physicians like Hippocrates, and later Galenus, are believed to have been the first practitioners of physiotherapy.