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We often hear the question “Should I use ice or heat to treat my soft tissue injury?”

We want to share ten of our favourite healthy habits. If you aren’t already doing these things, we encourage you to try incorporating them into your life. They’ll probably make you feel great. And if you are already doing these things, we encourage you to keep up the good work.

The plank pose is a powerful core strengthener that you can do anywhere. The core muscles include the abdominals, the back, and pelvic muscles.

Our jaws. We use them to eat with. We use them when we talk and to move our faces for expression. We often clench them when we’re stressed, or working hard, or often without even knowing it. Many of us even clench them in our sleep.

Although small, the muscles surrounding the jaw are made up of the same dense fibers as all other muscles. Kneading, or gently stripping them from the top of the joint down into the belly of the cheek will relax them, and help encourage painless range of motion.

If the latest E. coli outbreak and massive beef recall isn’t enough to make you question the mass production of factory farmed animals then I highly recommend reading Jonathon Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals.

Here’s a delicious recipe that promotes digestion and is loaded with anti-inflammatory properties. It’s easy to make and keeps in the refrigerator for up to a week.

Fascia lines and surrounds every organ, muscle fibre, bone, nerve, vein, artery, as well as the brain and spinal cord. If you removed everything else from your body and left only your fascia, you would have the complete three-dimensional framework of yourself. It is one structure that exists from head to toe without interruption.