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Cupping for neck pain home treatment

Cupping for neck pain home treatment

by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 20, 2022 | Exercise, headache, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, How-to, neck pain

Sometimes you wake up with a kink in your neck and you don’t have a treatment booked to address it right away. This happened to me the other day, so I decided to create a video showing how you can be prepared and treat yourself at home in just a few minutes....
Preventing Pandemic Posture Problems

Preventing Pandemic Posture Problems

by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 28, 2021 | Acupuncture, Back Pain, Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Pain, workplace wellness

We’re now more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and many of us are feeling the neck and back pains of poor posture related to working from home, binge watching tv, assembling puzzles, or crafting. I can relate to that last one, as I found needle felting...
CONTEST! A game of healthy things you can do at home–and prizes!

CONTEST! A game of healthy things you can do at home–and prizes!

by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 29, 2020 | Exercise, Food, Happiness, Health Tips, Healthy Habits

CONTEST! Staying on top of healthy habits like exercising, eating nutritious food, limiting junk food, maintaining social connections, curbing tv and other screen time, and practicing gratitude can be tough at the best of times. But in these days of COVID-19...
Self care isn’t only about chill days and spa retreats

Self care isn’t only about chill days and spa retreats

by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 28, 2020 | Exercise, Food, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, holistic health, Sleep

When I do an Instagram search of #selfcare, it shows up (as of this very moment) as 22,953,025 posts. Most of those are beauty posts (so many products) and cheesy memes that flash across your screen but change little. Self care is so much more than this. Don’t...
5 Healthy things to do in Vancouver on Bonus Day

5 Healthy things to do in Vancouver on Bonus Day

by Dr. Melissa Carr | Feb 29, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Heart health, mental health, Traditional Chinese Medicine

This is a leap year, so February 29th is kind of like a bonus day.  Do you often think that you don’t have enough time to do the things you need to do or want to do? Well, this year you have an extra 24 hours, so what will you do? Here are some healthy...

Try Again for Healthy Habits in 2016

by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 25, 2016 | Exercise, Health Tips, Healthy Habits

Healthy Habits Instead of New Year’s Resolutions I find that there’s an aversion to the idea of New Year’s resolutions. It seems that the thought of failure is linked with resolutions like peanut butter is to jam or like healthy eating is to...
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