Women's Health, Yoga, Expecting and New Moms, Physical Therapy
Jade Admin
What to Know Before 'Flattening the Mummy Tummy'

The recent article by NPR, Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day,  starts off with a sensational, grabbing title. A click bait title that we wouldn't expect from a trusted news source like NPR. But it certainly got your attention, especially if you recently had a baby and now are feeling a little weak around the core. And since this is NPR this should be safer than something random you pull off the internet, right? Well, yes and no.

What to Know Before 'Flattening the Mummy Tummy'
Acupuncture, Yoga
Jade Admin
Yoga for Addiction Recovery, Part 1

With addiction, deep fractures are drawn between our mind and our body, our needs and our habits, our emotions and our actions, and in the relationships that we have to ourselves and to others. Yoga, on the other hand, is connection.

Yoga for Addiction Recovery, Part 1
Acupuncture, Physical Therapy, Yoga, Women's Health, Expecting and New Moms
Jade Admin
Stress Awareness Month

It's a great time to pay attention to how stress is affecting you. Common stressors include work, family, money, children, illness and more. Stress can impact both your body and your mind causing symptoms such as muscular pain, irritability, fatigue, and headaches. Here's how we can help...

Stress Awareness Month
Expecting and New Moms, Physical Therapy, Prenatal, Women's Health
Jade Admin
Recovering from your C-Section

According to CDC data, 32% of women delivering a baby did so via C-section in 2015. Some of these are elective (planned) & others unplanned or emergent. If you are one of the 32%, what can you expect following a C-section? 

Recovering from your C-Section
Kimberly Buonaiuto
Understanding Your Health Insurance

Do you feel like your insurance coverage gets more confusing each year? That’s probably because it does! It seems like each year there is another rule or exception to your plan but the cost keeps going up. Here at Jade, we are often asked, “how much will this cost?” The answer isn’t as easy at it seems.

Understanding Your Health Insurance

Women's Health

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Why We Need to Start Considering Our Menstrual Cycles As An Important Barometer for Health

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Why We Need to Start Considering Our Menstrual Cycles As An Important Barometer for Health

Women who experience irregular periods with longer menstrual cycles have been associated with a higher risk of ovarian cancer, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, mental health issues and now, a shortened lifespan. At Jade Integrated Health, we are a team of practitioners who are devoted to promoting women’s health and longevity. We integrate physical therapy for pelvic health, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine to balance menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause states in a woman’s life.

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Helping A Breech Baby Turn

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Helping A Breech Baby Turn

Is it possible to help a breech baby turn? This is a question we often hear from moms hoping to have a vaginal birth. Moxibustion treatment can be a great option for these women.  Moxibustion is an adjunctive technique often used by acupuncturists in their treatments, and research has shown that a course of daily moxibustion over a specific acupuncture point on the baby toe is very successful at prompting a breech baby to turn.

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The Hot Topic in Healthcare: Article Review

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The Hot Topic in Healthcare: Article Review

The hot topic is healthcare is pelvic floor! But what does that mean and should I be paying attention to mine? Nancy Charlebois breaks down the need-to-know in this article review about what to expect when you're..... not feeling 100%.

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4 Ways Acupuncture Can Help New Moms

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4 Ways Acupuncture Can Help New Moms

Although being a new mom is an amazing experience, it’s not without its challenges. Emotional changes, changes to daily routine, and new physical demands often accompany motherhood, and the transition can be overwhelming. As an acupuncturist, many of my patients seek treatment during pregnancy and continue postpartum because acupuncture is a low-risk way to manage physical and emotional issues, and can dramatically improve a variety of afflictions.

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5 Ways to Know It’s Time to See Your PT After an Injury

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5 Ways to Know It’s Time to See Your PT After an Injury

We all experience aches and pains throughout our lifetimes. Often pain begins as a result of an injury or clear event. Occasionally it is difficult to pinpoint the cause of pain. Regardless of the scenario, it is common to try to ignore your pain and carry on with your life as usual. So, how do you know when you should take the next step and seek help from your physical therapist?

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Cold and Flu Prevention

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Cold and Flu Prevention

Flu season generally begins in November- December and can last until May . Every year concerns are raised about new strains and the risk to elderly or immunocompromised people. But it's not just the extra vulnerable among us whom colds and flus impact. None of us enjoy being sick, missing work, and experiencing muscle aches, fever, and chills. There are many ways we can boost our immune systems to prepare for changes in the weather and circumstances that start the spread of communicable diseases.

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Caring for the Pelvic Floor through Pregnancy and Childbirth

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Caring for the Pelvic Floor through Pregnancy and Childbirth

Women’s health care is gaining steam in recognizing the unique needs of pregnant and postpartum women.  Over the past 20 years, there has been an increase in understanding of how the pelvic diaphragm works and its important role in healthy bladder, bowel and reproductive habits.  Most importantly, women and health care providers are bringing different forms of pelvic floor dysfunction into the conversation so that treatment is possible and successful.

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What Causes Urinary Incontinence?

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What Causes Urinary Incontinence?

Pelvic floor dysfunction and stress incontinence are often believed to be problems of new moms and older women, but this is a common misconception. Women and men of all ages, including children, can suffer from urinary incontinence and often don’t realize that they can seek treatment to reduce this issue. 

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What to Know Before 'Flattening the Mummy Tummy'

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What to Know Before 'Flattening the Mummy Tummy'

The recent article by NPR, Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day,  starts off with a sensational, grabbing title. A click bait title that we wouldn't expect from a trusted news source like NPR. But it certainly got your attention, especially if you recently had a baby and now are feeling a little weak around the core. And since this is NPR this should be safer than something random you pull off the internet, right? Well, yes and no.

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7 Yoga Poses for After Your Run

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7 Yoga Poses for After Your Run

Running can be such a great release from daily stress not to mention a fantastic form of exercise. Running, however, can also cause tight muscles and injuries. Here are 7 poses for you to work your way through post race or simply after your morning jog to keep your body in tip top shape for future runs and races. 

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Stress Awareness Month

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Stress Awareness Month

It's a great time to pay attention to how stress is affecting you. Common stressors include work, family, money, children, illness and more. Stress can impact both your body and your mind causing symptoms such as muscular pain, irritability, fatigue, and headaches. Here's how we can help...

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How to Release Stress through Yoga and Meditation

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How to Release Stress through Yoga and Meditation

In our modern lives it seems that stress is unavoidable. A friend recently called this internal chatter her “unwelcome roommate”. This unwelcome roommate decided to move right on in and take over your mental space without asking and without being considerate of how you’ve been living. This roommate makes judgments, thrives on emotions, makes demands and imposes  opinion. Sound familiar?

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“The part can never be well, unless the whole is well.”

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“The part can never be well, unless the whole is well.”

Spring is officially here, and as the season of renewal it brings new life. Plants are starting to sprout and our gardens are starting to bud. New life is all around us both in nature and at the Jade clinic...what isn’t so easy to see is the care that we offer women before they become pregnant.

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What to Expect from the Pelvic Floor in Pregnancy & Post-partum

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What to Expect from the Pelvic Floor in Pregnancy & Post-partum

We live in wonderful times as women's health issues are coming to the forefront of medicine.  Just 1-2 generations ago, incontinence, pelvic pain and pelvic dysfunction were not discussed and rarely treated.