Alison Pretty RMT

💥 Happy Victoria Day!! 💥

Remember, you get tested the most when it is time to elevate! Don’t break 🙏🏻🤍

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

🧬 The human body is an amazing machine that produces 25 million new cells every second! 😮 This process is called mitosis and is an imperative function of the human body.

Mitosis drives growth and development, repairs damaged tissues, is responsible for regeneration, replacing old cells, and ensuring genetic stability. 🤯

Guess what is an essential component of mitosis….. 💧 WATER! It acts as the primary medium for biochemical reactions, provides the necessary volume and pressure for cell growth and division, and is critical for the structural integrity of the cell during the process.

🤣 Somehow I managed to bring Fun Fact Friday around to be about my favourite topic, water 🤣

Have a Onederful weekend! Drink up 😉

~ Alison

🤲🏻 Therapy Thursday 🤲🏻

Does your trainer correct your rowing posture often? 🚣

If this happens to you regularly it may not be a lack of strength on your part, but over active or tense muscles stopping you from reaching your full potential with this exercise. 🏋🏻

It may be tight hamstrings, lats, shoulders or upper back muscles preventing you from getting the full benefit out of your rows. 💪🏻

If you are constantly getting this correction from your trainer book a massage online (link in bio) and let’s see if I can help you correct that posture. ☺️

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

💦 The Rule of Three 💦

The Rule of 3 states that a person can live for 3 minutes without air (oxygen), 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. 🙊

In general as humans we tend to mentally prioritize food 🍕 over water 💧 but in reality water is far more important to the
body‼️

We can live 7X LONGER without food than we can without water 😯 So drink up 😉

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

🤲🏻 Last week on Therapy Thursday when I posted about the importance of massage PRE and POST operation, a patient I treated YEARS ago responded with the above comment. 🙏🏻

☝🏻☝🏻 This, is exactly why I do what I do! I LOVE knowing that what I can offer people helps them feel better, function normally again and in this case avoid life changing surgery. 💞

Thank you for trusting me to help you. 💖 It is the most fulfilling part of my career! ✨

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

💖 Anything that triggers you, is teaching you what part of yourself needs healing ✨

I know that may be hard to hear but read it again. It isn’t meant to reduce the validity of your feelings or belittle your experiences. It’s meant to put the power back in to YOUR hands. 🤲🏻

If we allow feeling triggered to end at the feelings it evokes within us then we miss the value of the experience. 💖 We are human, we are allowed to have our reactions to things, there is nothing wrong with that. 🫂 But if we can’t also, after the initial response, look at it and ourselves and assess why something gets to us so much and try to slowly chip away at the underlying cause and heal it, then we will never learn from ourselves and improve our experience. ❤️‍🩹

Sometimes, talking it out with someone outside of yourself who you trust with your emotions is the most helpful. 👥Other people are good at self talk. 🗣️ Whichever works best for you, it is important to take the time to do the work. Otherwise we just keep living the same painful cycle. 💞 No one wants to walk around with their nervous system on edge.

💕 I know it seems hard, but you’ve lived harder things. You’ve got this and you are worth the effort! 💪🏻

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

🩵 Bullying 🩵

My daughter competed in and won her schools Speech Competition yesterday! 🏆

Her winning was an exciting addition to this moment, but I am most proud of her for doing her speech in front of a room full of her peers (no younger grades were at the assembly) AND her bully. 🥰

The courage it took to present a speech about not only how bullying affects those who suffer it but also about why people become bullies and the emotional and physical effects it has on both children was all I wanted for her to gain out of this experience. 💓

Her speech empowered her and others like her to take back their power! 💞 It also cast a light on the data driven and statistical reasons that children become bullies. 🔦

Her words were so impactful that a student who frequently bullies kids was brought to tears, which was heart breaking 💔 and it got me thinking….

How many parents don’t know that their child is a bully? 🤔

Turns out only 14% of parents whose children are bullies acknowledge that they bully. The key word here being acknowledge. Researchers found that it was hard to gage as parents tend to feel judgemental or blame when asked about their child’s behaviour. The causes of bullying are well documented and researched so it’s understandable that a parent might feel this way. 💕

If you are concerned that your child may be bullying others there are some things you can look out for;

- Your child is aggressive or has difficulty regulating emotions.
- Your child frequently bullies siblings or young family members.
- Your child has a strong need to dominate or control
- Your child is very focused on being cool or social status.

This is of course, not an extensive list nor does it mean that if your child exhibits one of these characteristics that they are for sure bullying. This list is simply meant as a guide to lead you to start asking questions if you believe your child might be bullying.

There are programs available to help support you and your child. This doesn’t have to be a lifelong experience for either of you.

I can’t get my daughter speech out of my head. I hope this was enlightening and helpful to someone.

Have a Onederful weekend!

~ Alison

🚨 SURGERY 🚨

It is common for Doctors to recommend different types of therapy post operation but it is actually equally as important (if not more important) to have treatment pre-op‼️

In my 14 years of treating, every patient I have worked on pre-op has been their surgeons “star patient” 🌟 during recovery because their muscles and tissue were in the best shape possible going in to surgery! 👌🏻💪🏻

Pre-op preparatory treatment should be considered as vital a part to surgery as post-op treatment is. ❤️‍🩹

So if you or a loved one is going to have surgery let’s chat and see when is the best time to start treatment.

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

💦 Signs of Dehydration 💦

We’ve talked a lot about all of the things water does for your body. If you aren’t getting enough of it, all of those systems, organs and tissues suffer. 👎🏻 So how do you know if you aren’t getting enough water?

☝🏻 If you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated! 💯

Yep that’s right! If you allow yourself to actually feel thirsty you are already dehydrated. That is why it is important to keep drinking water throughout the day! 💧

Other signs of dehydration include;
💛 dark yellow, strong-smelling urine.
👎🏻 urinating less often than usual.
😵‍💫 feeling dizzy or lightheaded.
😴 feeling tired.
🏜️ a dry mouth, lips and tongue.
👁️ sunken eyes.

None of these symptoms is all that threatening, but the systems that are suffering because of these symptoms can be life changing! 🩵

So drink up!

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

A patient of mine just had knee surgery, they are 70 years old! They sent me this message yesterday letting me know how GREAT their recovery is going, and I couldn’t be more happy for them!! ❤️‍🩹

🗣️ “Good morning Alison, day number 17 and I feel fantastic, we are quite a bit ahead of schedule, I thought it would be here after four weeks and I’m here now walking without a cane, walking a couple of blocks no problem, a little sore around the cut obviously but pretty well off medication.
I just needed to let you know. Again, thank you for helping me through this journey!”

💖 I absolutely love what I do and that I get to help people feel better in their bodies! 💖

If you or someone you know need surgery, let talk about how I can best help you prep for and recover from surgery!

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison

💞 A friendly reminder:

✨While you are struggling and questioning yourself, someone else is using you as proof that it’s possible. ✨

Seriously❗️ Like seeeeeriously‼️ You never know who’s watching and you NEVER know what someone else is going through. 💞

So while you are beating yourself up and frustrated that you aren’t where you want to be yet, remember that you are simultaneously motivating others to keep going and believe in themselves the way you believe in you!

Have a Onederful day!

~ Alison