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Managing Adult Scoliosis & Kyphosis

Adults and seniors with diagnoses like Scoliosis and Kyphosis are experiencing positive outcomes through physiotherapy, particularly when degenerative changes, osteoporosis, or osteoarthritis are also present. The mature adult spine can be less flexible and demands a targeted focus on enhancing body mechanics, posture, and daily movement. Treatment objectives for adults revolve around these aspects, with the correction of scoliotic posture being pivotal to impede structural progression and alleviate pain. Conservative treatments, aiming to enhance scoliosis-related body appearance, hold significance across age groups, significantly impacting quality of life and emphasizing the aesthetic dimension. This physiotherapy approach is indispensable in effectively managing spinal asymmetries.

Managing Adult Scoliosis & Kyphosis

Adults and seniors with diagnoses like Scoliosis and Kyphosis are experiencing positive outcomes through physiotherapy, particularly when degenerative changes, osteoporosis, or osteoarthritis are also present. The mature adult spine can be less flexible and demands a targeted focus on enhancing body mechanics, posture, and daily movement. Treatment objectives for adults revolve around these aspects, with the correction of scoliotic posture being pivotal to impede structural progression and alleviate pain. Conservative treatments, aiming to enhance scoliosis-related body appearance, hold significance across age groups, significantly impacting quality of life and emphasizing the aesthetic dimension. This physiotherapy approach is indispensable in effectively managing spinal asymmetries.

Spiritual Medium & Life Coach

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a spiritual medium as your life coach? Hailey Coleman’s experience as a psychic/medium and her background in counselling allow her to provide clients with accurate and powerful guidance and readings. From speaking to passed loved ones and personal spirit guides, to providing clarity on client situations, to monthly mentorship services, Hailey is happy to share her gifts with the world. Mentorships include weekly readings, one-on-one coaching, life guidance, and access to resources and your personal spirit guides to get the answers you’re looking for and the results you desire!

The New Way to Discipline Your Child

Co-regulation is a more effective parenting strategy compared to traditional parenting practices. Co-regulation focuses on empathy, open communication, and understanding resulting in stronger parent-child relationships. Unlike conventional discipline, co-regulation acknowledges emotions, encourages self-expression, and supports a child’s development of self-control. By providing guidance and support rather than punishment, co-regulation creates a nurturing environment that promotes positive behavior and emotional well-being in children, ultimately strengthening the parent-child bond. Check out our website to register for a 3-part parenting group on co-regulation coming soon!

What’s Happening in January

We hope everyone had a wonderful end of year holiday break and are wanting to get back into 55 Plus activities. Please check our website for additional information http://archwood55plus.wildapricot. Our winter registration for our arts and fitness activities will take place January 3rd and 4th where you can register in person or online.
Classes are limited to a maximum number of participants, after which a wait list is established. Cancellation of classes may happen if not enough participants are registered.
All fitness classes are led by certified instructors who are experienced working with older adults.
Events open for registration with classes starting the week of January 8th:
Mondays: Yoga Fit Flow- (9:00 – 9:45 AM), Chair Yoga- (10:00 – 10:45 AM), Chair Yoga II – (11:00 – 11-45 AM)
Tuesdays: Line Dancing- (10:45 – 11:45 AM), Functional Movement – (11:00 – 12:00 PM
Thursdays: Art – (9:30 – 11:30 AM)
Fridays: Let’s Move Let’s Dance – (9:30 – 10:30 AM), Chair Pilates- (10:45 – 11:45 AM). Please check our website for additional info.

More January Events

Pickleball, Games and Billiards :
Open court Pickleball occurs on Monday and Thursday mornings and afternoons and we are back on court on Monday January 8th. Games can be purchased for $20 for 10 sessions. Games and billiards also occur on Monday and Thursday mornings and afternoons are are no charge to members.
January Luncheon
Wednesday, January 17,11:30 AM – 1:00 PM @ 565 Guilbault St.
Menu: TBD, check our website for details
COST: $12 Member, $15 Non-Member
January Bingo
Wednesday, January 24, 1:00 PM @ Archwood Community Center, 565 Guilbault Street, WInnipeg
Don’t forget your dappers or if you do, we can sell you one. Doors open at 12 pm; Cash only at the door
Bingo cards: 20 games; $10 per book
Bingo under Manitoba Gaming and Cannabis License LGCA 5635-BI-41885
Bingo Program -put on by Archwood 55 Plus Inc. Archwood Community Center (Prizes are 50% of total cards sales divided by 20 games)
Game 1 – Pink Card 1. One line anyway. 2. Two lines anyway.
Game 2 – Aqua Card 1. Diagonal line or Letter V anyway. 2. Capital Letter X.
Game 3 – Purple Card 1. One line anyway or four corners. 2. One line anyway AND four corners.
Game 4 – Lime Card 1. One postage stamp in any corner. 2. Two postage stamps in any corner.
Game 5 – Peach Card 1. The capital Letter T. 2. Full house (black out). Intermission
Game 6 – Orange Card 1. One Postage stamp in any corner. 2. Block of nine anywhere.
Game 7 – Brown Card 1. Upright capital letter T 2. All four outside lines
Game 8 – Grey Card 1. Four corners 2. Four corners and a postage stamp in any corner
Game 9 – Navy Card 1. Small cross (+) 2. Large cross
Game 10 – Yellow Card 1. Wee house 2. Full house (black out)
Archwood 55 Plus Bingo House Rules Bingo games will be conducted in accordance with the Manitoba Liquor Games & Cannabis Authority of Manitoba. Check our website for details. Canteen is available.

Trusting Myself Fully

I invite you to take out a pen and paper and complete this sentence with your dominant hand: “If I trusted myself completely, I would do/say or make happen” ……? Then with your non-dominant hand respond: “What holds me back from fully trusting” ….? When we struggle to create or share what we truly want, it’s often because there is a missing part of ourselves lost, frozen or trapped in time. When we seek validation from those outside ourselves over the wisdom that resides within us, this leads towards 2 big compromises: 1) Seeking and chasing the need for constant approval (anxious attachment) or 2) avoiding and rejecting what we desire, so we don’t feel the disappointment and rejection (avoidant attachment). Relationships are a shared energy, the more we trust our gut knowing, the better we can trust, share and receive what we truly desire.

Nutritional Goals for Older Adults

Heart to Home Meals has created a service with your lifestyle, tastes, and nutrition in mind. Order online or by phone and have your meals delivered straight to your door. Heart to Home Meals’ team of experts ensure they are always providing the best to customers. Andrea, the Consultant Dietitian, has worked closely with the company’s chefs to develop delicious meals that help support the nutritional needs of seniors. The diet coding system helps you choose the meals that meet your dietary needs for high protein, low carbohydrates and/or saturated fat, low sodium, high fibre, vegetarian, and/or no added sugar.

Live Your Day as if its Your Last

Albert Einstein says: “There are only two ways to live your life; one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle”. What would it take for YOU to live each day as if it was your last? What would need to change? Who would you spend it with and how would you choose to spend your time? Anything you would want to resolve, share, create or impart? What would you want to savor and fully enjoy on your last day on earth in this body? Collect all this precious wisdom and begin living it daily. Saying yes fully and unapologetically to what brings you joy and no thank you to what depletes and drains you. Daring to live and love fully!

Teachings From Nature

Trees teach us how to live our lives with resilience. When we turn to the trees as our teachers watching how they grow and transform, they can teach us how to live our lives with resilience. They remind us of the importance of being grounded and rooted, fully planted deep beneath our feet into the earth. Their roots connected with other like-minded roots and souls as a foundation to draw upon. Our trunk solid like the oak or flexible like the Willow allows us to adapt and shift to the demands of unforeseen changes around us. Resilient when storms or branches break, finding creative ways to re-emerge or work around. Their branches wide open with leaves creating a canopy of growth, shelter a pathway of expansion to receive. Then they shed, release and begin a new cycle once again.

Moving Aging Parents

Selling your senior parents’ home and moving them to a new home or retirement/assisted living community can be an involved and emotional experience. Your realtor can help make the sale and purchase of the homes easier. Here are some important things to share with your realtor during this process: 1) Basics about the property and circumstances prompting the move. 2) Financial impacts and potential obstacles to selling the home. 3) Details about what is needed for the new home (size, location, price, desirable features, etc.). 4) Any important information about the timeframes for the sale and purchase of the homes.