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Read MoreResolving Frozen Shoulder
Frozen Shoulder, or adhesive capsulitis, is a very stubborn, debilitating, and restrictive condition which affects all activities of daily living, and is characterized by: Severe pain, progressive stiffness, and loss of motion in the shoulder joint. Decreased range of motion, with obvious difficulties in raising the arm above the head, across the body, or behind the back. Pain that can last from weeks...
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Read MoreResolving Dance Injuries
“Ballet ranks with football as the most demanding of all physical activities and sports”. Since 1978 – 3000 articles have been published on dance injuries. Between 75-97 % annual incidence of injury reported among professional dancers. 80% of dancer have a major injury during their career. 93% of dance teachers become teachers because of injury. These injuries often go untreated (often due to...
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Read MoreOur Practice
Kinetic Health is conveniently located in Northwest Calgary within the community of Edgemont. Dr. Abelson, the clinical director of Kinetic Health, has been practicing at this location for the past 18 years. Kinetic Health specializes in treating a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions and in improving sports performance. The majority of our patients hear about Kinetic Health through referrals by...
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Read MoreRelease Your Kinetic Chain Series
Speed your healing with Exercises for the Jaw to Shoulder and Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand which include functional exercises that rehabilitate the all the tissues of the kinetic chain for your head, jaw, neck, arms, wrists, hands, and shoulders! Release the anatomical structures of your kinetic chain – from your jaw to shoulder, and your shoulder to hand – with these unique exercise...
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Read MoreRelease Your Pain: 2nd Edition
Read this long-awaited 2nd edition of an international best-seller to get the information you need to make educated health care decisions about your soft-tissue conditions. Release Your Pain provides you with specific exercises strategies to help resolve your individual condition and which you can apply to a broad range of soft-tissue injuries. This book can also help you to: Understand the probable cause...
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Read MoreDance Injuries – Lateral Ankle Sprain
By Dr. Evangelos Mylonas A few weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the Calgary International Salsa Congress. It was a spectacular show featuring some of world’s best salsa performers and instructors, local professionals, and dance troupes from all over North America. I was amazed at the level of competition and impressed by the quality of the production, the dancers skills, and the...
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Read MoreAbout Performance Care
What is Performance Care? Performance care acts to improve an athletes performance in his or her chosen sport. Subtle or gross changes in the physiology of an athlete body can have tremendous impact on the time and effort required to perform an activity. Difficult training regimes, repetitive motions (swimming, running, cycling), and overworked muscles all place a great deal of stress on an athlete’s...
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Read MoreResolving Plantar Fasciitis
What is Plantar Fasciitis? The suffix “itis” means inflammation. In medical literature, Plantar Fasciitis is most often described as “an inflammation of the plantar aponeurosis or plantar fascia”. What Causes Plantar Fasciitis? Plantar Fasciitis (PF) – like all repetitive strain injuries – typically develops over a long period of time and are caused by: Repetitive motions that stress...
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Read MoreAbout ART
Active Release Techniques (ART) Active Release Techniques (ART) has become one of most sought after soft-tissue treatments in the world today. ART is often your best bet for resolving chronic soft-tissue injuries. “ART is a patented, advanced, movement-based massage system, which is extremely effective for accurately locating the cause of soft-tissue conditions and effectively resolving (or greatly...
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Read MoreART at our Clinic
We use Active Release Techniques for treating over 95% of our patients, and have a proven success rate that exceeds 90% for a broad range of conditions. A large percentage of our patients suffer from repetitive strain injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, frozen shoulder, elbow pain, back pain, knee injures, and a wide variety of other musculoskeletal conditions throughout the body. We have a proven success...
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Read MoreGet Healthy, Stay Healthy with Kinetic Health – Newsletters
2015 – Get Healthy, Stay Healthy Newsletter January 2015 – Joint Manipulation – Preventative Maintenance for your Body | Rotator Cuff Injuries – Its all About the Imbalance 2014 – Get Healthy, Stay Healthy Newsletters December 2014: Resolving ITBS, It’s not Just the Piriformis August 2014 – Lower Cross Syndrome | Obturator Nerver Entrapment in Groin Injuries June...
Most Recent Articles
Treating Golfer’s and Tennis Elbow with ART
Golfer’s Elbow Golfer’s Elbow (Medial Epicondylitis) refers to the pain and inflammation that occurs at the inside point of the elbow (medial epicondylitis). Golfer’s Elbow can be caused by any activity (not...
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Shin Splints – Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
One of the most common running injuries we treat in our clinic is shin splints or Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS). Shin splints cause one in five athletes to stop running. In addition to running, engaging in...
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6 Common Running Injuries
The following is a list of common running injures that we treat at Kinetic...
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8 Common Injuries Effectively Treated with Active Release Techniques
The following is a list of some of the most common musculoskeletal injuries we...
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Lateral Foot Pain – Cuboid Syndrome
Cuboid syndrome is a condition that causes lateral foot pain. In forty percent...
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