Red Cedar HealtH Abbotsford
604-746-3140

Twist Performance and Wellness Vancouver 
604-428-9478

 

 

68 East 2nd Avenue
Vancouver, BC, V5T 1B1
Canada

604-428-9478

Dr. Brandon Spletzer, ND practices evidence based Naturopathic Medicine with a special focus on mild traumatic brain injuries/concussions, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), Weight Loss and Prolotherapy.

Exercise Prescription

Everyone knows that proper diet and daily exercise is a great way to prevent disease. By incorporating exercise into treatment options, individuals may live longer and healthier lives. For those that want to push their bodies to the limit, proper exercise prescription is absolutely essential to prevent injury. By incorporating proper exercise progression, with adequate rest time and nutritional support for protein synthesis and repair, weekend warriors can perform at their best, while maintaining optimal health. 

Exercise is an essential component of long term weight management. Following a medically supervised weight loss plan, it is paramount to have a proper exercise prescription created in order to prevent excessive delayed onset muscle soreness. By gradually increasing exercise frequency, intensity and time along with changing the type of exercise to suit individual needs, patients are more likely to follow through and achieve long term success. Not all exercise is running! Yoga is an excellent form of exercise and also assists in parasympathetic stimulation which improves the Mind-Body connection