A new survey commissioned by the Canadian College of
Naturopathic Medicine reveals that almost half of Ontarians treated by
naturopathic doctors report naturopathic medicine has helped reduce their use of
prescription drugs. Further, approximately 4 in 10 of those individuals report
fewer visits to their family doctors and 3 in 10 to hospitals as a result of the
care they receive from naturopathic doctors.
If you have thought about seeing a Naturopath, call today to book a free 15min session with Dr Gail Sauer and find out how Naturopthic medicine cn help! 905-209-1005 balancedliving.ca
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The end of the year is near!
The month of december is a crazy one for our clinic, so many of our clients rush to use up the last of there benifits coverage before it runs out December 31st. This year don't get caught in the rush, call today to book in those last appointments while there is still time.
Also watch for details about the new date for the Wellness Weightloss Program coming in late December, and information on our new monthly talks, each month we will have a one hour talk guided by our great staff. The first topic will be Meditation, and will be presented by Dr Gail Sauer ND in January.
Also watch for details about the new date for the Wellness Weightloss Program coming in late December, and information on our new monthly talks, each month we will have a one hour talk guided by our great staff. The first topic will be Meditation, and will be presented by Dr Gail Sauer ND in January.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The new Weight Loss program is here!
Balanced Living Wellness Series
Wellness Weight Loss
What is the Wellness Weight Loss Program?
The Wellness Weight Loss program is designed to reduce health risks associated with lifestyle choices, improving overall health and life balance. The 12 week program will introduce participants to a way of life that facilitates healthy weight loss and weight maintenance: addressing the relationship between eating and emotional wellbeing, metabolism, exercise and weight loss, stress and body composition and sleep relative to recovery and weight maintenance.
What is the Balanced Living Wellness Series?
Balanced Living Wellness Series offers a variety of programs that are offered in the Markham area. The programs of our series are associated with Balanced Living Massage Therapy and Wellness Centre located in Cornell, Markham. Balanced Living, winner of the Reader’s Choice award 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010, is an established wellness clinic offering massage therapy, ART, acupuncture and naturopathic medical care. The Wellness Weight Loss program has been created by Gail Sauer ND, an associate of Balanced Living Massage Therapy and Wellness. Gail is a licensed and established Naturopathic Doctor, Seneca college professor, regular lecture at Wellspring Sunnybrook, yoga instructor and athlete who brings her experience in nutrition, lifestyle counselling, weight loss, mind-body medicine and exercise therapy to ease your transition to healthier living.
What can you expect from the Wellness Weight Loss program?
Wellness Weight Loss endeavours to generate a fun, positive and supportive environment for participants attempting to achieve weight loss by means of embracing health. Changing your life is not easy: our weight loss program provides you with the foundation, knowledge and encouragement you need to make a lasting transformation.
Weekly 60 to 75-minute, group meetings will cover a variety of research-based topics from exercise to emotional eating and from meal planning to stress and sleep. Participants will be equipped with a weekly nutrient –rich and satisfying recipe which adheres to the principles introduced by the program.
Participants can expect a change in weight (1-2lbs of weight loss/week, depending on body composition and goals), increased energy and vitality, diabetes and heart disease risk management, improved sleep and a greater sense of wellbeing. Most importantly, participants will experience a supportive approach to managing lifestyle habits with fun, motivation and maybe even a little laughter.
***Please note: Wellness Programs are also offered to corporations at your place of business***
Wellness Weight Loss
What is the Wellness Weight Loss Program?
The Wellness Weight Loss program is designed to reduce health risks associated with lifestyle choices, improving overall health and life balance. The 12 week program will introduce participants to a way of life that facilitates healthy weight loss and weight maintenance: addressing the relationship between eating and emotional wellbeing, metabolism, exercise and weight loss, stress and body composition and sleep relative to recovery and weight maintenance.
What is the Balanced Living Wellness Series?
Balanced Living Wellness Series offers a variety of programs that are offered in the Markham area. The programs of our series are associated with Balanced Living Massage Therapy and Wellness Centre located in Cornell, Markham. Balanced Living, winner of the Reader’s Choice award 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010, is an established wellness clinic offering massage therapy, ART, acupuncture and naturopathic medical care. The Wellness Weight Loss program has been created by Gail Sauer ND, an associate of Balanced Living Massage Therapy and Wellness. Gail is a licensed and established Naturopathic Doctor, Seneca college professor, regular lecture at Wellspring Sunnybrook, yoga instructor and athlete who brings her experience in nutrition, lifestyle counselling, weight loss, mind-body medicine and exercise therapy to ease your transition to healthier living.
What can you expect from the Wellness Weight Loss program?
Wellness Weight Loss endeavours to generate a fun, positive and supportive environment for participants attempting to achieve weight loss by means of embracing health. Changing your life is not easy: our weight loss program provides you with the foundation, knowledge and encouragement you need to make a lasting transformation.
Weekly 60 to 75-minute, group meetings will cover a variety of research-based topics from exercise to emotional eating and from meal planning to stress and sleep. Participants will be equipped with a weekly nutrient –rich and satisfying recipe which adheres to the principles introduced by the program.
Participants can expect a change in weight (1-2lbs of weight loss/week, depending on body composition and goals), increased energy and vitality, diabetes and heart disease risk management, improved sleep and a greater sense of wellbeing. Most importantly, participants will experience a supportive approach to managing lifestyle habits with fun, motivation and maybe even a little laughter.
***Please note: Wellness Programs are also offered to corporations at your place of business***
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Readers choice awards!
We are excited to announce that the Markham Economist & Sun newspaper has released the names of the winners in the "Readers' Choice Awards" for 2010. The award for best Massage Therapist in Markham went to Fiona Thomson RMT of Balanced Living, the award for best Reflexologist again went to Fiona, and the award for best Homeopath in Markham went to Dr. Gail Sauer ND (Homeopathy is only a very small component to what she does as a Naturopath).
With this years awards, it brings our total up to 6 Readers Choice Awards, in just 5 years that the clinic has been open.
Thanks to all our patients that believe in us, and voted this year.
With this years awards, it brings our total up to 6 Readers Choice Awards, in just 5 years that the clinic has been open.
Thanks to all our patients that believe in us, and voted this year.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Massage – A Tried and True Method - Part 1
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, massage therapy is a practice dating back thousands of years. References to its uses have been found in ancient writings from Greece, Rome, Japan, China, and Egypt.
Massage therapy first became popular in North America in the mid-1800s. It was done for a variety of health reasons, and complemented with the mineral essentials of natural hot spring resorts so fashionable at the time. In the 1930s however, because of advancements in other medical treatments at the time, massage therapy fell out of general favor. However, in the 1970s it made a return, due in part to athletes who discovered its benefits in preparing for, or recovering from, strenuous workouts.
Massage is used in both conventional and alternative medicine therapies. There are more than 80 different types of massage therapy.
The well-known Swedish massage uses long strokes, kneading, and finger pressure on tight or knotted muscles. Trigger point massage uses deeper, more focused pressure on knots that form in muscles. Shiatsu massage applies varying, rhythmic pressure from the fingers on parts of the body that are believed to be key to the flow of vital energy called chi.
In all types of massage, therapists apply pressure and movement mostly with the use of their hands and fingers. However, forearms, elbows, and feet may also be a part a therapist's technique.
Why Massage Therapy?
Experts estimate that nearly ninety percent of disease is stress related. Now more than ever it's imperative that people make the most of self-care options to help decrease and manage stress levels. Massage, the application of soft-tissue manipulation techniques to the body, has been shown to reduce stress and fatigue while improving circulation.
People are often stressed in our culture. Stress-related disorders make up between 80 to 90 percent of the ailments that bring people to family-practice physicians. One of the complaints heard frequently is that physicians don't touch their patients any more. Years ago, massage was a big part of nursing. Now nurses for the most part are as busy as physicians.
In a Massage Journal interview, Dr. Joan Borysendko states, "I believe massage therapy is absolutely key to the healing process not only in the hospital environment but because it relieves stress. It is obviously foundational in the healing process anytime and anywhere."
Massage therapy first became popular in North America in the mid-1800s. It was done for a variety of health reasons, and complemented with the mineral essentials of natural hot spring resorts so fashionable at the time. In the 1930s however, because of advancements in other medical treatments at the time, massage therapy fell out of general favor. However, in the 1970s it made a return, due in part to athletes who discovered its benefits in preparing for, or recovering from, strenuous workouts.
Massage is used in both conventional and alternative medicine therapies. There are more than 80 different types of massage therapy.
The well-known Swedish massage uses long strokes, kneading, and finger pressure on tight or knotted muscles. Trigger point massage uses deeper, more focused pressure on knots that form in muscles. Shiatsu massage applies varying, rhythmic pressure from the fingers on parts of the body that are believed to be key to the flow of vital energy called chi.
In all types of massage, therapists apply pressure and movement mostly with the use of their hands and fingers. However, forearms, elbows, and feet may also be a part a therapist's technique.
Why Massage Therapy?
Experts estimate that nearly ninety percent of disease is stress related. Now more than ever it's imperative that people make the most of self-care options to help decrease and manage stress levels. Massage, the application of soft-tissue manipulation techniques to the body, has been shown to reduce stress and fatigue while improving circulation.
People are often stressed in our culture. Stress-related disorders make up between 80 to 90 percent of the ailments that bring people to family-practice physicians. One of the complaints heard frequently is that physicians don't touch their patients any more. Years ago, massage was a big part of nursing. Now nurses for the most part are as busy as physicians.
In a Massage Journal interview, Dr. Joan Borysendko states, "I believe massage therapy is absolutely key to the healing process not only in the hospital environment but because it relieves stress. It is obviously foundational in the healing process anytime and anywhere."
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Kinesio taping
At this time of the year we have several runners and triathletes coming in with an assortment of injuries. Most of these injuries involve the legs, low back or shoulder, a treatment modality we have been using with some success is Kinesio taping. Below is a short write up we found.
Kinesio tape...It's magic tape to several of my patients!
By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY
There is an entirely different school of taping. It uses just a few strips of placed elastic, cotton tape. No encasing.Called kinesio taping, it originated in Japan about three decades ago. There are kinesio taping procedures for all sorts of muscle and joint problems. The tape is meant to be left on for several days.Kinesio taping for lower back pain, for example, involves two vertical strips on each side of the spine and one horizontal strip over the strained area."There is a method to the madness," says John Jarvis, director of the Kinesio Taping Association, a division of Albuquerque,-based Kinesio USA, a company which imports kinesio tape from Japan for sale in the USA and Canada.Jarvis says kinesio taping "corrects muscle function, improves circulation of blood and lymph, repositions the joint and relieves pain."The placing of the tape along muscles is aimed at assisting movement. "As the muscle fibers contract, Kinesio Tape supports the contraction by pulling and stimulating the skin and muscle back towards the origin," the Kinesio Taping Association says in its literature. It says the lifting of the skin by the tape (which has adhesive activated by body heat) allows lymph to drain more freely."It's completely different from what they (athletic trainers) were trained to do." says Jarvis. "They were going to immobilize something. This is encouraging range of motion."Kinesio USA originally had tape that came in hot pink and blue. It has added beige and black to accommodate teams that don't want it to clash with their colors.In his 2003 book Every Second Counts, Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong noted his team used "a special hot-pink athletic tape that came from Japan and seemed to have magical powers."Armstrong added: "Sometimes we'd be so wrapped up in hot-pink tape that we'd look like dolls, a bunch of broken dolls But the tape worked, so we kept it, because it could fix things."Jarvis says, "The Lance thing really helped us" and that kinesio taping has the attention of athletic trainers.
If you think Kinesio taping maybe of benefit to you, please call to book in an appointment at 905-209-1005
Kinesio tape...It's magic tape to several of my patients!
By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY
There is an entirely different school of taping. It uses just a few strips of placed elastic, cotton tape. No encasing.Called kinesio taping, it originated in Japan about three decades ago. There are kinesio taping procedures for all sorts of muscle and joint problems. The tape is meant to be left on for several days.Kinesio taping for lower back pain, for example, involves two vertical strips on each side of the spine and one horizontal strip over the strained area."There is a method to the madness," says John Jarvis, director of the Kinesio Taping Association, a division of Albuquerque,-based Kinesio USA, a company which imports kinesio tape from Japan for sale in the USA and Canada.Jarvis says kinesio taping "corrects muscle function, improves circulation of blood and lymph, repositions the joint and relieves pain."The placing of the tape along muscles is aimed at assisting movement. "As the muscle fibers contract, Kinesio Tape supports the contraction by pulling and stimulating the skin and muscle back towards the origin," the Kinesio Taping Association says in its literature. It says the lifting of the skin by the tape (which has adhesive activated by body heat) allows lymph to drain more freely."It's completely different from what they (athletic trainers) were trained to do." says Jarvis. "They were going to immobilize something. This is encouraging range of motion."Kinesio USA originally had tape that came in hot pink and blue. It has added beige and black to accommodate teams that don't want it to clash with their colors.In his 2003 book Every Second Counts, Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong noted his team used "a special hot-pink athletic tape that came from Japan and seemed to have magical powers."Armstrong added: "Sometimes we'd be so wrapped up in hot-pink tape that we'd look like dolls, a bunch of broken dolls But the tape worked, so we kept it, because it could fix things."Jarvis says, "The Lance thing really helped us" and that kinesio taping has the attention of athletic trainers.
If you think Kinesio taping maybe of benefit to you, please call to book in an appointment at 905-209-1005
Monday, May 31, 2010
What's NEW at Balanced Living?
Spring is always a busy time at Balanced Living. We have provided Massage Therapy and Naturopathic Medicine at several special events including; Fit for Heart, Angus Glen 10 mile run, Legacy run and regular talks at local buisnesses.
We have also made some changes in the clinic. We have added a new luxurious massage table, which will only enhance the already amazing pregnancy massage threatment. We have also changed around Room 2 to make the Naturopathic visits seem more relaxed and functional. Ask about our Acupuncture treatments and Homeopathic remedies that may enhance your health and healing. The best way to know what would suit your needs is to make an appointment with Gail Sauer Naturopathic Doctor.
Jennifer Corey RMT has returned from maternity leave and is treating patients Tuesday to Saturday for the summer. Don't be disappointed, book in with her today!
Stay tuned for details on our BIKE REPAIR CLASS we will be offering in the next few weeks.
Helping you find balance one treatment at a time.
We have also made some changes in the clinic. We have added a new luxurious massage table, which will only enhance the already amazing pregnancy massage threatment. We have also changed around Room 2 to make the Naturopathic visits seem more relaxed and functional. Ask about our Acupuncture treatments and Homeopathic remedies that may enhance your health and healing. The best way to know what would suit your needs is to make an appointment with Gail Sauer Naturopathic Doctor.
Jennifer Corey RMT has returned from maternity leave and is treating patients Tuesday to Saturday for the summer. Don't be disappointed, book in with her today!
Stay tuned for details on our BIKE REPAIR CLASS we will be offering in the next few weeks.
Helping you find balance one treatment at a time.
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