Month: April 2010

Here’s my second video blog about how to treat upper back tension and trigger points. I was thinking that a visual might help here as many of my clients ask me how to do tennis ball massage. So here’s my strategy for upper back pain. Watch and then give it a try. Don’t forget the self care that should follow all tennis ball massage treatments – use deep moist heat. See our self care tab on the site for more details. Check out my second video blog at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yveUCASli_Q

As promised, I’ve figured out how to upload my 1st every video on tennis ball massage! For now, all my video blogs will be posted on youtube due to upload limits on my site.

This is pretty exciting especially for a newbee video guy like myself. I have to admit it was very weird sitting in front of my macbook and talking to an inanimate object – a computer screen and camera, and all the time trying to engage my video audience. Consider it an experiment and a work in progress. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gm1G41_e8k

Well I’m back blogging from a short hiatus as I attempted to use iMovie  software to record my video blog. I can say that my…or should I say, my wife’s Macbook Pro, is quite the machine and has all the software gadgets that our PC doesn’t have. To make a long story short, I’ve recorded two video blogs: one about ball selection and a second blog on the “how to’s” of tennis ball massage. So I went to upload them to our site and all I can say is there’s a small glitch…a 7M upload maximum on my files. So that means I need to figure out how to get my video on our site. I’d prefer to have it all in one place but I think my other option would be to upload it to youtube and then you can check out my acting skills there…which are really bad by the way. Anyhow, I’ll work on that.

On another note, I want to share with all our friends out there that Hillsview Massage will be supporting Strides for Stroke 5k Run/Walk again this year. We are community partners with York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill and support their fundraiser by offering complementary 10 minute sport massages to run/walk participants. Yes, I did say complimentary, whcih is in fact a synonym for FREE! All you have to do is register and participate and our team of great RMT’s will be waiting for you at the finish line. Massage therapy is a great way to help recover from sporting events especially from running.

I almost forgot to mention that we’ll also be giving out more FREE tennis balls at the event too! So if you haven’t had a chance to get one from the clinic here’s your chance. We’ll be at Richmond Green on Saturday May 1 between 9:30 am and 11:30 am. Come visit us and you can gladly pick our brains for some self help approaches to treating your muscle aches and pain. Check out the run/walk event at: http://www.yorkcentralrun.com/