The Cornerstone Blog
3 Reasons Massage Therapy Can Help Your Swelling
Our goal is to reduce swelling through massage to help improve recovery, decrease pain and increase movement.
How to Talk to Your Daughter About Food
I’m talking about things like getting your daughter in the kitchen, teaching her how to use a knife properly, teaching her how to understand her hunger cues and … maybe lets just start with what hunger cues are.
4 Simple Ways To Spread Kindness
With the current climate of the world, the most important thing we can control is how we treat others and ourselves. It is important that we as Canadians stick together and look after eachother during times of stress
Why Am I Bloated?
The digestive system is considered the second brain of the body. When it functions well, so to can your health. Bloating however, can be a key indicator that something in the gut just isn’t working right
How IV Therapy Can Help After a Crohn’s Flareup
At Cornerstone Naturopathic, we focus on your quality of life. This means that we focus on getting you rebuilt and stable after a flare (and preventing further flares from happening). One of the tools that we use to do this are Nutrient IVs.
How Massage Therapy Can Ease End Of Life
The goals are to prevent or relieve suffering as much as possible and to improve quality of life while respecting the dying person’s wishes.
What is SIBO?
When present, SIBO causes a plethora of disconcerting symptoms such as IBS, digestive bloating, gas, nausea, reflux, malabsorption, constipation or diarrhea and pain amongst others.
Natural Treatments for Diverticulitis
Anti-microbials are the first line therapy for a diverticulitis flare. The bacteria stuck in the diverticula must be destroyed to eliminate the pain in the lower left quadrant of the abdomen. In addition to strong anti-microbials a low fiber diet must be adopted for the short term until the pain as been addressed and eliminated.
Natural Treatments for Diverticulitis
Diverticulitis is a disease of the large intestine consisting of poaches throughout. Sometimes material can enter these poaches and become stuck which results in significant bacterial growth and inflammation inside the poach which leads to strong abdominal pain.
How to Spring Clean Your Health Routine
This spring (ah! finally!) I have 6 essentials to help you kick your healthy habits up a notch.
3 Reasons Massage Therapy Can Help Your Headache
Massage therapy has shown to be effective in treating migraine and tension headaches. Here’s how we do it.
5 Tips to Get You Moving
Getting moving can be SCARY (but it doesn’t have to be!). If you’re looking to live a healthier life our favourite tips for wannabe movers are below!