Recently a video has been circulating in social media. If you follow health care providers, like RMTs, physiotherapists, or chiropractors, maybe you’ve seen it. It features a PT smiling and nodding while listening to a patient. The video is overdubbed with a cringy sounding “old lady” voice of someone recanting a difficult story. The caption of the video is along the lines of “omg when they keep trauma dumping during our appointment it’s so annoying.” There’s a vibe of judgem

Tinnitus! A sound in the ears that is not caused by an external source. It can be a high pitched ring, whooshing, or lower pitched buzz. Some survey's suggest 10-25% of adults experience this issue making it kind of common. Likely we all have heard a brief ringing in our ears that goes away moments later but for some it can become a very persistent noise. What it has lasted for at least 3 months it is considered chronic. Generally speaking, while annoying, it is not usually d

A rose by any other name would still demand my skills, knowledge, and dedication to the Regulated Health Professions Act. Or something like that... In the RMT community in Ontario there is a conversation that has been happening ever since I graduated in 2009. Are the people I touch my patients or my clients? When I graduated, the CMTO, the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (the people who give us the license to use the titles we use here and ensure we continuously dese

I'm no expert in AI and I am only this >.< much more knowledgeable about ethics, but I am very knowledgeable about DIY. And by that I mean, highly experienced. My whole life I have been a roll-up-my-sleeves and do it myself kind of person. I've taken pride in hauling pieces of furniture up flights of stairs alone, lived on my own since I was 20, made my own clothes, and built my own business. Not always ideal but I've had my back against the wall more times than I can count a

It's officially the dark season and the sun is down by 530pm. It's cold, there's snow and ice, and this is just the beginning of it. The winter blah's are here! We all, to varying degrees, deal with lower vitamin D levels, weird sleep, being cold most of the time, and wearing umpteen layers of clothes and scarves and winter hats and gloves and boots and long johns and I don't know about you but all that plus my hood up and shrugging against the wind has me making the angry ba

A response to The Check Up with Doctor Mike podcast featuring Prof. George Bonanno This podcast was shared with me a while back by a...

To go deep or not to go deep? It all depends on you. Should you get deep tissue massage? What are the benefits? It is more therapeutic...

Lisa Simpson presentation meme What I'd love to be writing right now is a reflection piece on the previous year because honestly 2024 was...

Several months ago I was working with a new patient. We will call them Pat. Pat was born with a sort of mysterious genetic disability...