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Gardening – How to turn your body carefully and avoid pain!

Try our simple tips on how to twist safely in the garden! Hi this is Dana Ranahan from Body Works Physiotherapy and today we’re out shovelling and moving some dirt. One of the things I want you to pay attention to, we’ve already talked about careful approaching the dirt, now I want talk about not […]

Gardening – How to Use your Shovel Safely and Avoid Injury!

Watch our tips on how to protect your body from injury while gardening. Especially shovelling! Hi this is Dana Ranahan of Body Works Sports Physiotherapy and I’m out in the garden today cleaning up some soil, it’s a good time of the year to do that but we want to be sure you don’t hurt […]

Lifting Well in The Garden to Avoid Back Pain

Check out our simple tips for lifting in the garden. These tips should help to alleviate back in jury and pain from heavier gardening tasks. Hi this is Dana Ranahan at Body Works Sports Physiotherapy and we’re going to look at a gardening tip for lifting things today to be careful of your back. Back […]

Avoid Neck and Shoulder Pain in the Garden

Try our simple tips to avoid neck pain and shoulder pain in the garden.  Have a great time out there this spring! Hi this is Dana Ranahan at Body Works Sports Physiotherapy and today we’re going to look at minimizing shoulder and upper body injuries and neck pain sometimes. If you’re working on trimming a […]

How To Bend Carefully in the Garden to Avoid Lower Back Pain

Try out our simple tips on bending carefully in the garden, and using a cushion to kneel on to help avoid back and hip pain. Hi, this is Dana Ranahan at Body Works Sports Physiotherapy and we’re going to be giving you a tip for gardening today. I have some herbs here that I need […]

Avoid Lower Back Pain Gardening

Listen in for some simple tips on how to bend over properly and avoid lower back pain and back injury while gardening. Hi this is Dana Ranahan at Body Works Sports Physiotherapy and I’m here today to give you some tips on gardening once you get back at it. So first off we want to […]

Gardening Warm up Tips March 2016

Here is a short video on how to warm-up for gardening to avoid injury and stay pain free! Get out and have fun in the garden! Hi this is Dana Ranahan at Body Works Sports Physiotherapy and it’s that time of year that we get out in the garden and start tidying things up for […]