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Author: Droughan Costello

Droughan “Dru” Costello has been involved in team and individual sports as a competitor, coach and mentor his whole life. While running with a track and field club as a teenager he was introduced to Registered Massage Therapy as a way of treating his running injuries and providing relaxation techniques for improved mental focus. Subsequently, Dru has consistently sought it out as a form of preventative health care to treat soft tissue injuries and to provide overall wellness.
06 Feb

Persons With Chronic Hip Joint Pain Exhibit Reduced Hip Muscle Strength

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This study was conceived based on the assumption that people with Chronic Hip Joint Pain(CHJP) were weaker in hip external rotators and abductors than a group with no hip joint pain. Qualifying participants were 18 to 40 years old with three months of hip pain and responded positively to testing that recreated their pain. What […]

03 Jan

DUHC and Mayfair Lakeshore RMT services

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In case you’re unable to get in to see me at my Richmond West location here are two other clinics I can see you at with schedule below: Dundas University Health Clinic provides massage, physiotherapy, chiropractic and naturopathy all covered under your health insurance plan. Schedule: Monday’s 12pm-6pm Tuesday’s 9am-6pm Thursday’s 9am-6pm Mayfair Toronto Lakeshore […]

12 Sep

Flexion and Extension for shoulder strengthening

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Actions of the shoulder and muscles involved. Flexion: anterior deltoid, pec major, biceps brachii, coracobrachialis + With your arm straight starting from behind your hips, create movement at your shoulder joint and raise to your shoulder level. + Empty handed, with weight, theraband or a cable machine(with the resistance behind your body slightly lower than […]

07 Sep

A run down of the bones of the shoulder and arm

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Here’s a run down on the bones of the shoulder and arm for you…☺☺ The clavicle(collar bone) articulates laterally with the acromion(the nub poking forward from your shoulder blade/scapula)of the scapula and medially with the sternum(middle of your chest). Ironically it is one of the first bones to start hardening in the human fetus, the […]