Author: Dr Alex Ritza
09 Oct IT Band Tightness And Syndrome Rehab Protocol
Hey everyone! In this video, we're going to be going over some rehab exercises you can do if your IT BAND feels tight or you have an IT band injury. The video below addresses that directly and is the rehab protocol I would do if (and...
26 Aug Shin Splints: Why They Happen And How To Fix Them
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHetGTo1S2c[/embed] Today we're talking about Shin splints. So what is to follow is a custom made Rehab program that I created for one of our practice members that let me know that he was having some shin splints. That's going to have everything you need for the...
22 May Elbow Pain Relief In Toronto
Elbow Pain Relief In Toronto Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE Elbow pain, and specifically "Tennis Elbow" is by far one of the most common complaints that we hear in our office....
24 Apr Feel Less Pain And Heal Injuries Faster
My two most recent episodes from the Better Ever After Podcast that have been the most downloaded to date. While not originally planned, these episodes compliment each other perfectly. Understanding pain and how it is generated in the brain is fundamental to understanding your own body....
22 Mar 6 Strategies To Make More Workouts And Be More Productive
In this episode, we're going to be discussing six tactics and strategies that you can use to make yourself more productive. And specifically, we're going to be talking about making yourself more productive in terms of making it to the gym or fitting in some...
10 Mar Overworking / Overtraining Isn’t Your Problem – It Is The Recovery Part That Is
If you prefer to read rather than listen, here is the transcript of my latest episode of the Better Ever After Podcast. In this episode, we're going to be covering a topic that's going to apply to everybody, whether you're an athlete or a couch potato. I'm...
28 Jan Four Things To Change About Canada’s Food Guide
Today we're gonna be talking about Canada's new food guide that was just released last week. I'm going to give you some thoughts about it, a little overview about what it actually talks about, four things that I would change about it to make it a...
23 Dec Do You Need To Take A Protein Supplement? What The Research And Not Your Ripped Friend Says.
Do I Need To Take A Protein Supplement? What The Research And Not Your Ripped Friend Says. BETTER EVER AFTER PODCAST - EPISODE 26 I have never taken a protein supplement in my life and I recently found myself wondering if I was missing out on something...
12 Dec Staying Happy And Healthy During The Holidays
I want to help you as much as possible to enjoy your holiday season. Whether that's Christmas or another holiday, I hope that it is as happy and healthy because we are entering it into one of the most challenging times of the year in...
26 Nov Headache Survival Guide
It is that time of year again when the weather in Toronto is all over the place, there is less sunlight, the barometric pressure is like a see-saw, the stress of Christmas, other holidays and year-ends at work are looming and the conditions are just right...
31 Oct You Are Not Bad At Anything, You Just Haven’t Practiced Enough
You show me someone who is a “natural” and I will show you someone who has just practiced a lot. This is something that I have come to believe through reading about neuroplasticity, epigenetics, which is the study of how the environment determines how your genes...
22 Oct It Isn’t Schadenfreude, It’s Perspective.
From Ep.018 of The Better Ever After Podcast How I am hoping that this blog is going to help you is by adding a small pause to your day where you step outside of your body and take a broader perspective. What I hope it might help...
18 Sep The Mindset That Will Help You Achieve Your Biggest (Health) Goals And Enjoy The Process Of Doing It
The Mindset That Will Help You Achieve Your Biggest (Health) Goals And Enjoy The Process Of Doing It If there is something in your life that you are working towards, whether it is weight loss, running a half marathon, graduating from a school program, a competition...
27 Aug How To Work A 60 Hour Work Week And Keep Your Sanity And Health
Whether you are a professional, parent, or entrepreneur that feels busy and low on time or someone that just would like to have better energy, sleep, immune function and feel better, today we are going to be talking about specific strategies that you can use...
20 Aug Working Out Is Not What Makes You Fitter. Why The Mindset Of WOK HARD. RECOVERY HARD Is The Path To Getting Better Each Week
So let me ask you, and take a second to think about it, what in general is required by the body to be healthy? In general, you probably would say good food, movement or exercise, you might even say something about mindset and maybe even a...
13 Aug Obama, Malala, Buffet, Brene And You Go For Coffee…How Curating Your ‘Tribe Of Five” Effects Your Mindset And Life
I am a big believer in the tenet that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. I really hope that you have heard this Jim Rohn quote before because I am convinced that it is true. The idea is that...
06 Aug The things that we say to ourselves that we would never say to someone we love – Ep.009
Something that I have struggled with for as long as I can remember is the tendency to expect the world of myself. I know I am not alone in this. I know there are other people reading this right now that do this as well. Especially...
31 Jul Don’t Start With The Double Black Diamond Runs: Why Mobility & Core Work Should Be Your Biggest Focus
I always believe in identifying first principles and moving outward from there. Trying to identify the point - the why - behind choices and actions and answer the question - "Why am I actually doing this"? It is just who I am , I am a...
09 Jul Sometimes The Biggest Health Changes Come From The Mind
Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE Sometimes The Biggest Health Changes Come From The Mind Whenever you watch a sport I think that you invariably end up comparing yourself to the professional...
02 May 5 Things To Know About Your Shoulder Pain And The Exercises To Fix Them
5 Things To Know About Your Shoulder Pain And The Exercises To Fix Them 1 - SHOULDER INJURIES RARELY OCCUR IN ISOLATION The nervous system is the mediator of pain in the body. Anytime that there is a painful tissue, it is the nerves that communicate this...
21 Mar Why most shoulder pain is not a shoulder problem
Whether you are 18 or 65, shoulder pain is equally likely to have affected you. If it has not, let us keep it that way! [caption id="attachment_17781" align="alignleft" width="300"] While shoulder "A" on the left is a lot more perfect looking, it can be just as...
24 Jan Why your massage doesn’t totally fix your neck & how to get neck pain relief
Dr Alex Ritza – Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor CHIROPRACTIC CARE CONVENIENTLY LOCATED NEAR YONGE AND BLOOR RATED ONE OF TORONTO’S BEST CHIROPRACTORS ONLINE Your neck has been a little sore lately so you decide to book a massage, which usually fixes it. The massage is a little more...
03 Jan Your Best Posture Is Your Next One
From now on feel free to put your feet up on your desk instead of sitting upright. It would be better to move from one mediocre posture to the next regularly than to sit in the same "perfect posture" all day. Even if your posture is perfect but...
18 Dec Migraine Sufferers: Suffer No More
Odds are that you have experienced one: throbbing headache, worse on one side more than the other? Visual disturbances, nausea, sensitivity to sound? A tight belt squeezing your head in? An estimated 20% of North Americans will experience migraine headaches in their lifetime. Odds are you...
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