Heart of the Matter
It’s the month of love and we are celebrating Valentine’s Day by focusing on the most important and hardest working organ: your heart! The heart of the matter is that many people don’t know the heart beats around one hundred and fifteen thousand times and will pump around two thousand gallons of blood in one day! All without a second thought from you. When it comes to this integral part of the body, people know they need to eat right and exercise, but did you know there are a lot of treatments that can actually help maintain your heart’s health?
Heart disease is a group of conditions affecting the structure and functions of the heart and has many root causes. Some examples of heart disease are: high blood pressure, angina, congestive cardiac failure, and coronary artery. Let’s break down our services and how they can help your heart!
Heart of the Matter – PHYSIOTHERAPY
With any Physiotherapy, the goal is to improve the strength of muscles thus helping how the body moves. Through our techniques and exercises, we are able to target the heart to improve its performance. Physiotherapy helps the blood flow more easily, can open up vessels, and overall strengthen the muscle. As its own special category, Physiotherapy and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation for Heart Disease targets in on the heart to improve its performance.
For those who are at high risk of developing heart issues, seeing physiotherapy early can help to keep your body and heart active. We can help with simple exercises and movements to strengthen muscles before serious problems develop. As for those who are already dealing with cardiovascular concerns, our services are a step towards a healthier lifestyle. Our goal is to assist our clients in gaining mobility, flexibility, stability, and independence in their lives.
NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
Our naturopathic doctors are trained in preventing and treating cardiovascular disease. Since they focus on identifying the underlying causes of disease and empowering patients to make lifestyle changes, they are able to restore as well as maintain health. Trained to treat the whole person, naturopathic doctors address the genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors that lead to cardiovascular disease and treat accordingly. Naturopathic doctors spend more time with their patients than traditional doctors and their comprehensive workups allow them to catch and treat conditions sooner.
ACCUPUNCTURE
Stress taxes the body in so many ways. It effects sleeping, digestion, moods, and of course our hearts. When we deal with highly stressful situations, our flight or fight response is triggered, which puts even more stress on our bodies. A way to combat this response is to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system which allows us to rest, digest, and heal. It is this alternate system that brings our heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels back down. Acupuncture is extremely effective at triggering this secondary nervous system. By consistently activating this response, we can bring your system into balance and potentially reverse the negative impacts of stress which will help prevent further damage to your heart and other organs.
The Heart & REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPY
Massage might not seem like the best option for those with cardiac issues, especially since massage therapy increases blood pressure through the flushing strokes used. A massage therapist manually circulates blood and lymph through your body. If your heart isn’t taxed, this isn’t a concern, but for someone with cardiovascular disease it can raise blood pressure to an unsafe level. Still, with modifications, massage therapy can be beneficial and relaxing for those suffer heart conditions. By adjusting their techniques, using less vigorous techniques, and monitoring blood pressure, our RMT’s are able to treat any patient.
Are you worried about your health? Curious to see how our treatment list can help you? Book in for your appointment with Plaza Physiotherapy and let us guide you towards a healthier and happier future!