My new website!

“To your health!” That’s a quote from a trip that I took to Africa two years back. We were in Timbuktu enjoying a gin and tonic after coming in from exploring the Sahara in a nasty sand storm. I heard the same quote but in Portuguese that summer while celebrating my grandmother’s 80th birthday. “A sua saúde!” is what my family and I wished my grandmother as we celebrated a great life. I found this to be a fitting reminder of the importance of maintaining a balanced healthy lifestyle through spiritual reflection, an active lifestyle, and a balanced diet. That was the common thread between all the people that I met on that trip and the inspiration behind Saúde (see http://forvo.com/word/sa%C3%BAde/ for the correct pronunciation of “saúde”).

I would like to invite you to experience Saúde. Please visit my new website to find out more! www.saudeclinic.ca If you know of anyone who has an injury or a chronic complaint, is looking for a second opinion, or is looking to prevent an injury from occuring, please feel free to direct them to my website as well.

Here's to your Saúde!

Back it up!!

So I've been a self-employed entrepreneur for 2 years now working on many different health related initiatives and projects and needless to say, I've learned a ton of valuable real life lessons!! Today was another lesson learned... in every instance, BACK UP YOUR STUFF!!! It's happened to all of us... it's late and you're just about finishing what you're working on, or you go to turn on your computer getting ready for a presentation, and smoke begins to come out of the back of the laptop... BRUTAL!! I recently had the unfortunate experience of losing valuable information on a computer at a friend's office despite the fact that there were signs/symptoms of imminent disaster... things slowing down... weird error messages... etc...

So, the lesson for today is:

Step 1: go out and buy an external hard drive from any of the big box stores & USE IT!! Plug in your computer everyday and back it up.
Step 2: sign up for a web-based off-site server back-up service

It's not bullet proof but it at least lowers your risk.

I know... not really health related but if you think about all the stress, anxiety, increase in blood pressure, increase in cortisol (stress hormone), experienced as a result of the experience, it is in fact health related!

Lesson learned... don't let it happen to you!

Keep well,

Henry

My first post....

Hello!

Welcome to my blog! I never thought that I would actually begin doing this, but after watching my good friend Yuri Elkaim share his passion and knowledge with so many people in such an easy way, I knew I had to give it a shot!

My name is Dr. Henry Candelaria and I have recently taken the dive and entered into business for myself in the opening of Saúde Centre of Physical Rehab and Therapy, a new manual therapy and rehab clinic in Toronto's Little Italy. I love the name... because no one knows how to pronounce it! (see http://forvo.com/word/sa%C3%BAde/ for pronunciation) It's great! It gives me an opportunity to explain the meaning of the word to everyone I encounter. Similar to the French word santé, saúde is the Portuguese word for health commonly used to wish someone well while sharing a drink. I thought it was a fitting name given the neighbourhood in which I was establishing myself (surrounded by great restaurants and lounges), my Portuguese heritage, and my profession.

At Saúde Centre, I strive on facilitating a multidisciplinary rehab approach focusing on functional rehabilitation of musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries. The clinic team is committed to offering the highest quality conventional and non-traditional MSK health services in a way that stresses humanity, compassion, and quality-of-life for our patients. Saúde is distinguished from other rehab centres by providing excellent customer service, and evidence based manual therapy and rehab to the community. We pride ourselves on providing the best in interdisciplinary functional rehab as well as expertise in the best alternative treatments and manual therapy approaches to MSK injuries. We aim to be the first choice for individuals who have experienced an injury, sports related or otherwise, are preparing for surgery, have had surgery, suffer from chronic pain, have experienced a work place or motor vehicle accident (MVA) related injury, or are simply looking to improve their overall MSK health and well-being.

I hope to use this blog as a means of regular contact, sharing new information, updating you on my professional progress, opinions, venting, and updating you on the Saúde project. I hope you will find it informative and intriguing.

If you're in the Toronto area, please feel free to come by and check us out or simply to say hello! If you're not, please check out our website (www.saudeclinic.ca) for more information on what we do, the services we provide, and to meet our team members!

I look forward to meeting you in cyber space or in person.

Keep well.

Henry