At home exercises & tools to help with mobility and overall wellbeing.
Your Ultimate Guide to keeping your body loose and limber with some quick easy everyday tools that you can do in under 10 mins....
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Derek Defaria
- Apr 1
- 1 min
How can Osteopathy help professional athletes.
Derek Defaria Osteopathy in Kelowna, BC Osteopathy can help professional athletes in several ways: Injury Prevention: Manual osteopathy...
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Derek Defaria
- Mar 21
- 2 min
What is sciatic nerve pain?
Sciatic pain is often caused by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back down through the buttocks...
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Derek Defaria
- Mar 21
- 2 min
What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a type of manual medicine that emphasizes the importance of the musculoskeletal system in overall health and wellbeing. It...
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Derek Defaria
- Mar 21
- 2 min
What does stretching actually do?
Stretching is an essential part of any exercise routine or physical activity, and it offers many benefits that can enhance your overall...
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Derek Defaria
- Mar 21
- 2 min
What is fascia and it's importance?
Fascia is a connective tissue that is made up of fibrous proteins, including collagen, elastin, and reticulin. Collagen is the most...
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Derek Defaria
- Mar 9
- 2 min
What does a care plan look like at Derek Defaria Osteopathy?
As your Kelowna Osteopathic Practitioner, I will customize a treatment plan specific to your injury. There are also phases of care that...
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Derek Defaria
- Nov 12, 2022
- 1 min
Derek Defaria Osteopathy now offers after hours service in West Kelowna
As the winter season approaches, Derek Defaria Osteopathy is seeing a surge in after hours service requests, as such he has now added...
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Derek Defaria
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
Simple tips to help relieve headaches
If you are reading this you are probably rubbing your temples with a dull ache or sharp pain in your head. The headache is one of the...
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Derek Defaria
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
How to avoid injury on you ski trip to Big White
Skiing advice to prevent injury The ski season is well underway and some of you may be looking forward to a ski vacation or a weekend...
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Derek Defaria
- Jan 26, 2022
- 1 min
How Osteopathic Practitioners calm spasming muscles
Counter strain is a system of assessment & treatment that considers the muscle to be in a continuing, inappropriate strain reflex, which...
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Derek Defaria
- Jan 26, 2022
- 1 min
What are muscle energy techniques?
Muscle energy techniques address somatic dysfunction through stretching and muscle contraction. For example, if a person is unable to...
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Derek Defaria
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
Low Back Pain
Are you the type to drop something on the floor and go noo! Now you have to somehow pick that object up without bending your back? Or...
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Derek Defaria
- Jan 18, 2022
- 1 min
It's golf season in Kelowna, do you have limited range of motion?
If you are someone who used to be able to twist, turn and bend when you were younger and now you just feel stiff with aches and pains...
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Derek Defaria
- Jan 16, 2022
- 2 min
What can I do about my back pain?
Are you suffering from back pain? There are many different reasons why you may be experiencing back pain such as your posture, slouching...
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