My name is Jayden Luhur, and I am going into my second year as an undergraduate student at York University in Toronto. I am majoring in Kinesiology, and I plan to become a physiotherapist. In July 2024, I interned at Physioactive Jakarta for two weeks and learned a tremendous amount. Going into the internship, I…
How to prevent yourself from getting injured while working from home. Before I start, I’d like to express my deepest gratitude to our hard-working healthcare practitioners including nurses, doctors, and all teams involved in fighting the COVID-19. Through social media I learned about retired doctors returning to help with the current condition—it gave me massive…
Amid the boredom of this quarantine, many friends are experimenting with various kinds ofvsports virtually, includiing WOD at home challenges, 30km a day cycle, 31 days of Yoga, and of course (my favorite) ….. don’t do anything for 1 month without feeling guilty. Everything is acceptable because this quarantine is not a time for productivity…
This blog article was inspired by a TED Talk from Wendy Suzuki at TEDWoman 2017, titled Brain Changing Benefits of Exercise. I’m sure everyone knows that exercise is good for health and good for losing weight. It has become common knowledge that exercise can improve your heart condition, blood circulation, muscles and the function of…
Prelude Injury to musicians is something that we are not familiar with. The term injury is almost always synonymous with an incident such as a fall or accident. In fact, often times we associate injuries with sports. During college, my final project was to analyze the risk of injury to a drummer. The case study…
Music is almost always a part of our lives. Many of us have even started formal and informal music education at a young age. The piano and / or guitar are the musical instruments of choice that seem to be obliged to be played by the child — as if it were a household obsession…
When you have back pain, most people assume there is an injury or some kind of irritation in your back. And in most cases, problems in the back are caused by injuries or irritations to structures in the back. However, it is different for Ms. M. She received treatment from more than 5 different physiotherapists…
Supplement? Special medicine? Multivitamin Special? Fish oil? NO! When you hear the word health, it immediately pops up in people’s minds, wow, what is this new supplement? What new medicine? This mindset is wrong. Health is sometimes associated with supplements, with drugs or with certain multivitamins. Of course supplements and multivitamins can help you to…
I asked myself, when Mr. E came to our clinic. He explained that Yoga has been part of his life for more than 25 years. At the age of 50, he felt that age couldn’t be fooled by him anymore. He had difficulty raising his arms in front of him and his hands behind him….
Before I start, I’d like to express my deepest gratitude to our hard-working healthcare practitioners including nurses, doctors, and all teams involved in fighting the COVID-19. Through social media I learned about retired doctors returning to help with the current condition—it gave me massive chills down to my spine. Also, I’d like to remind…