Stay ahead of injury before it slows you down. Our injury prevention articles cover the exercises, habits, and techniques that keep athletes and active individuals moving safely and confidently.
The best exercises for skiing build leg strength, balance, power and mobility in the weeks before your first run. Most skiers spend months off the hill, then ask their legs to handle a full day of turns, moguls and icy patches on opening weekend. That gap is where sore quads, tweaked knees and early-season injuries…
Your knee has been sore since your last run along the Bow River pathway. Or your back seized up after shovelling the driveway. Or your shoulder has been acting up since an upper-day lift. Then comes the question almost everyone asks: who should I actually see for this? Physiotherapist, chiropractor, massage therapist, family doctor? They…
On November 14, 2026, Dr. Bryan Myles will line up for his first HYROX race in Denver, Colorado. Between now and then, while he’s participating in HYROX training in Calgary, he’s running two businesses, showing up for his wife Sarah and their two kids, and fitting in the training, meal prep and recovery a race…
The rinks are filling up again. September in Calgary means fresh tape, sharpened skates, and that first-practice buzz you’ve been missing all summer. It also means a wave of athletes throwing themselves back into full-speed hockey. And every fall, our sports injury clinic in Calgary see the same story: a player who felt fine right…
Fall is prime racing weather – cool, crisp mornings, big goal races on the calendar, and a city full of runners suddenly very motivated. It’s also the season when a lot of training plans quietly fall apart, not because of bad luck, but because of the most common mistake in running: doing too much, too…
September resets the whole family calendar. In Cochrane, that means hockey tryouts, soccer under the lights, school teams starting up, and weekends that fill with games and practices almost overnight. After a fun and relaxing summer, everyone – kids and parents alike – is suddenly a lot more active, a lot more suddenly. That jump…
When looking for the best exercises for rotator cuff injury, the research is pretty clear: loaded, progressive exercise is the single most effective intervention for rotator cuff-related shoulder pain. The rotator cuff is one of those structures most people don’t think about until it stops working. Four small muscles, the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and…
Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in Calgary with no signs of slowing down. Pickleball courts are packed, leagues are filling up, and a lot of people who haven’t picked up a racket in years are suddenly playing multiple times a week. The downside of that explosion? A whole new category of patients walking into our…
If you live in Calgary, it doesn’t take much convincing to get out into the mountains. The Rockies are less than an hour away, the trails are world-class, and once the snow clears, weekends tend to fill up fast with plans to get outside. However, many hikers don’t consider hiking preparation exercises to prevent injury….
Calgary’s golf season is criminally short. Most of us get five solid months on the course, which means every round counts, and the last thing you want is to spend the first three weeks of the season at a Calgary sports therapy clinic nursing a back you tweaked on opening day. What a lot of…