Active Health & Wellness Clinic opened its doors in January of 2007. At that time a lot of thought was put into the name and why it was caused Active Health. Following 8 years of education and another couple years of clinical experience at that point it became very clear as it still does today that in Canada and even more so in the US that people don't put enough value into their health. The general public unfortunately lives a reactive lifestyle where they for the most part abuse their bodies and wait for a symptom to come up before they react. If i ask the question "What is your most valuable asset?" many people will say their car or their house or some other material item. Unfortunately for these people they haven't yet realized that your most valuable asset is your health. Without it you cannot enjoy life. Ask any body who has experienced a chronic debilitating pain, injury or disease and they would give up almost anything to get their health back. 

So what's in a name? Well let's look at the definition of Active Health & Wellness. 

active [ak-tiv]: 1. engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc; busy 2. being in a state of existence, progress, or motion

health [helTH]: the World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease, infirmity or pain."

So as you can see from the above definition health is not based on whether you have symptoms or not. It is based on your body's function. 

So when you look at our healthcare system, our hospitals and medical clinics are overloaded and people are getting sicker and sicker! Many would say we have a healthcare crisis! We don't actually have a healthcare crisis we have a sickness care crisis. Our medical system is doing a great job at helping people in a state of sickness and emergency, but this system wasn't designed to make people more healthy and provide them with a state of optimal health and function. You see every day you are living a life on a paradigm. By the individual choices you make on a day to day basis whether it's how you eat, your level of stress, exercise, etc you are either slowly going towards a state of sickness or hopefully towards a state of health. 

At Active Health we want to make sure you are engaged in action, being in a state of existence, progress and motion towards a true state of health. We want you to live that Active, healthy lifestyle you deserve and be able to do all the activities you desire for your life time pain free. This unfortunately doesn't happen by chance.....It happens by Choice! We want you to make the right choices and hopefully by you being a patient at our clinic or learning some valuable health information through this blog or other areas of our website you will Live Life Active!