Stop Telling Paramedics to “Lift With Your Knees”
You’ve heard it 1000 times. “Lift with your knees!” But what does that even mean? Is it always feasible to lift with…
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20 Tiny Habits for Paramedics
Becoming a good paramedic is built on some combination of good education, good instincts, and good habits. Becoming an…
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Minimum Effective Dose Fitness
Earlier this year I came across a fun little app called Pai Health. It is a fitness tracker that is based on some…
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Exercise Resistance, it’s more than a feeling
Are you a paramedic or EMT who saves their workouts for their days off or after shift? You could be significantly…
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Vitamin D, Cancer and COVID-19
If you’re living in the northern hemisphere, and you’re not supplementing with Vitamin D, then now might be a really…
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A Free Yoga Offer for Your AM Bookend
Here in Manitoba where COVID cases continue to rise, restrictions continue to get tighter, and days get colder,…
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Ashwagandha for Insomnia
Last time I wrote how a simple change to the practice of shift scheduling could DOUBLE the nights the average…
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This Common EMS Scheduling Practice is Needlessly Burning the Candle at Both Ends
I’d like to share some observations and a hypothesis regarding the common practice of scheduling shift change at 7AM. To…
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