For high-level athletes like Charleston Hughes of the Calgary Stampeders, recovery after tough games and practice is everything. Hughes spoke to the National Post about recovery, and getting back to 100% using infrared for accelerated healing and natural pain relief. Read the article below to find out how he combines Thermotex with Call of Duty to recover and give football all he’s got.
Andrea Collins is the founder of Saturday Clothing, a fashion design studio and boutique atelier in the heart of downtown Calgary. She’s also utterly down-to-earth; when she’s not designing clothes you can find her in fly-fishing, working outdoors and spending time with her daughter.
Andrea has also suffered from Rheumatoid Arthritis since she was just shy of 27, an illness that altered the course of her career. When she was diagnosed, she was working full time outdoors for Air Canada at a job that she loved.
Chiropractor Dr. Paul Thibert of joined with Global Calgary to discuss therapies which help manage various types of chronic pain and to raise awareness for National Pain Awareness Week.
He discusses proven natural remedies for chronic pain, including Thermotex, supplements and Graston therapy. You can find out more about Dr. Thibert at http://nwcalgarychiro.ca
T: Tell us a bit about your professional past and present?
FE: I have worked in private practice, and in hospital settings treating severe chronic medical conditions before moving into a consulting career.
During this latest move I opened a low cost community acupuncture clinic, which treats people at prices they can afford. As the community became aware of my clinic, the numbers of patients we were treating rose exponentially, this brought me in contact with large numbers of people in pain.
Reilley McKinlay, dancer with the Alberta Ballet, hails from Seattle, Washington where she grew up training at Pacific Northwest Ballet School in addition to her academic studies. At the age of 19, she moved to Toronto for a year to continue training at Canada’s National Ballet School. In 2008, McKinlay was offered a contract with Alberta Ballet to begin her professional dancing career and is currently in her 10th season dancing with the celebrated ballet company.
