Live Well Physiotherapy & The Age Well Clinic

03/27/2025

Join us for a low-cost introduction to strength training. Interested in adding strengthening exercise to your regular routine, learning how to do strength training despite pain or injury, or learning how to get the most benefit out of the time you're investing in strengthening exercise? Join us to learn more.

✨ Start Building Strength ✨

An introduction to strengthening exercise for people who are interested in improving their health, mobility, and fitness with physiotherapist Jesse Robson of Live Well Physiotherapy & The Age Well Clinic. Learn how to do strengthening exercises properly and learn some exercises you can do using equipment you already have around the house. This workshop is suitable for people of all ages, and health, mobility, and fitness levels. 💪

📅 Friday, April 25
🕞 3:30pm - 5:00pm
🏫 Barss Corner Community Hall
📍 891 Barss Corner Road
💰 $10

📅 Monday, May 5
🕞 9:00am - 10:30am
🏫 Broad Cove Hall
📍 7147 Highway 331
💰 $10

📅 Tuesday, May 27
🕞 1:00pm - 2:30pm
🏫 Hebbville Fire Hall
📍 215 Century Drive
💰 $10

Pre-registration is required:
💻 Online: www.connect2rec.com
☎️ Phone: (902) 530-4100
🧍‍♀️ In-Person: Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre (LCLC)

01/09/2025

Hot off the presses just in time for our FREE Restore Postpartum Rehab Program beginning tomorrow and again in late February in collaboration with Our Health Centre:

This new systematic review highlights the potential of exercise for mitigating postpartum mood disorders, showing that accumulating 80 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week postpartum can significantly reduce the severity of postpartum depression and anxiety, and reduce the risk of developing postpartum depression. That's as little as 15 minutes 5x a week!

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/28/bjsports-2024-108478

And here's another showing that postpartum pelvic floor muscle exercise can reduce the prevalence of postpartum urinary incontinence by 37%, and subjective symptoms of prolapse by 56%, while postpartum abdominal exercise can significantly improve diastasis recti.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/17/bjsports-2024-108619

We will be doing all three of these types of exercise at our postpartum rehab program! Tell your friends about this great free program supporting mothers' physical and mental wellness.

01/06/2025

Underrated health tip:

Find an activity you really enjoy that also happens to support good health - through spending time outside, connecting with others, and/or being active, for example.

If you already have an activity you really enjoy that meets these criteria, and you haven't done it for a while (because many of us still haven't gotten back to our pre-pandemic-let-alone-pre-smartphone activities and social lives), consider setting an intention to get back to it in 2025.

There lots of claims out there about what type of exercise (or diet, or self-soothing practice, etc. etc.) is best for maintaining good health. You may be surprised to learn that studies show that the most effective type of exercise (and diet, etc.) for improving long-term health is a type that the person doing it actually enjoys - because they will do a much larger volume of it over their lifetime than they will of some fad or specialized routine that feels like a chore.

More importantly, there's more to life than eating enough protein and maintaining good bone density. Get out there and have some fun.