Got Anxiety? Here’s How a Psychologist Could Help
Got Anxiety? Here’s How a Psychologist Could Help “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Can you relate? Mark Twain may have spoken the following words in 1934, but they can probably apply to almost anyone who reads them today. Worrying about this or that or the other thing ...
Ketamine Therapy for Depression: What You Should Know
Ketamine Therapy for Depression: What You Should Know Statistics show that roughly 8% of all Canadian adults are suffering from depression at any given time. And the COVID pandemic has only made depression rates climb higher. As of April 2021, one in four Canadians were experiencing depression, anxiety, or PTSD. [1] Despite being so common, depression is often left untreated ...
Neurofeedback: A Promising Treatment for Depression
Depression affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Depression, also known as Major Depressive Disorder, is a mood disorder that will affect one in eight Canadians at some point in their lives. For many of these people, neurofeedback offers a promising next step. As an alternative to traditional treatments, neurofeedback requires no prescription and no medication. Thanks to recent technological ...
Reducing Pain by Promoting Healing with Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy - Reducing Pain by Promoting Healing How does prolotherapy help with pain? Want to utilize your body’s own natural capacity to heal pain? Prolotherapy may be what you are looking for. Prolotherapy is a series of injections that, over time, help an unstable or painful body part regenerate and heal. The injection is a mixture of dextrose (a type ...
How to Reduce Hypertension Naturally
How to Reduce Hypertension Naturally Today is World Hypertension day and we at Empower Health are eager to provide Naturopathic options for treating and preventing high blood pressure. High blood pressure (also known as hypertension) is a common concern in our communities as it increases our risk of more serious conditions that affect our heart and circulatory system. Quite often, ...
Professionally Guided Neurofeedback at Home!
What is Neurofeedback? Neurofeedback, also called Neurotherapy, is a type of biofeedback that uses a real-time display of electrical brainwave activity to teach self-regulation of brainwave functions. The collection of this information for clinical purposes is called a qEEG, or Quantitative Electroencephalography. This information is analyzed and a “brain map” of the data is created. From this, protocols are created ...