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INSIGHTS & PERSPECTIVES: DISCOVER THE WORLD OF COUVE HEALTH!

How Does Chiropractic Care Help Headaches?
We know there are plenty of options for comprehensive chiropractic care. Knowing how to find a chiropractor in Vancouver that can offer the most professional, and inclusive treatment plans is the first step in your recovery and healing journey. There may be obstacles like the type of insurance a patient carries, accessibility, and of course location, that will impact your decision, but quality of care should be a top priority. That’s where we come in!
What sets Couve Health apart from all of your available alternatives? Our professional team of experienced musculoskeletal therapists and providers is here to offer the best therapies to help our patients recover from injuries and chronic conditions.
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Benefits to Working Out Outdoors
There’s something about the longer evenings and warmer days of summer that beckon us outside. Spending time outdoors can have significant benefits to our physical and mental health.

8 Tips to Improve Communication With Your Chiropractor
Communication is part of the foundation needed to achieve the best outcome with your chiropractor or any healthcare provider. Studies have shown that patients who effectively communicate with their doctors report more beneficial health behaviours, fewer symptoms, and a higher quality of life. Effective communication with your doctor will put you on the quickest path to recovery.
Meeting a healthcare provider for the first time or starting a new treatment plan can be stressful. It may even leave you somewhat apprehensive on how to talk with your chiropractor.
Here are some tips to help you better navigate the patient-doctor relationship.

What is Whiplash?
Whiplash is an injury to a person’s neck. Also referred to as a neck strain or neck sprain, it happens when a person’s head rapidly moves backward and forward with force. The impact from this kind of momentum can cause the soft tissues of the neck to extend beyond its typical range of motion.
After a whiplash injury, you should pay close attention to any physical changes for several days as symptoms do not always appear right away. Although whiplash is considered a relatively mild condition, it can cause long term discomfort and pain.
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What is Manual Therapy?
Life happens. Even with the best intentions of taking good care of our bodies, injury and pain can happen. Whether you are a serious athlete who pulled a muscle during practice or you are a hairdresser with shoulder pain, the discomfort is real.
During these times many people will seek out professional help to rid themselves of the pain. Manual therapy can be part of the treatment plan prescribed to get you flourishing again.
Manual therapy is a form of therapy where clinicians use their hands to achieve desired results for their patients instead of using devices or machines. Using their hands they apply techniques to soft tissues, muscles and joints to improve flexibility, range of motion, tissue mobility, movement and reduce pain.
According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT<) (2018), orthopedic manual therapy is defined as: “an advanced specialty area of physical therapy practice that is based on manual examination and treatment techniques integrated with exercise, patient education, and other physical therapy modalities to address pain, loss of function, and wellness.”
At Couve Health, our goal is a synergistic approach to a person’s wellness. Early, consistent, and skillful manual therapy combined with patient education and exercise is paramount.

High-quality Musculoskeletal Care - Couve Health
Our founder and owner of Couve Health, Dr. Vivie Bojilov, was recently interviewed by Go Solo. Check out the interview below.
Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and wellness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Vivie Bojilov, founder and owner of Couve Health, located in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
What’s your business, and who are your customers?
Couve Health is the first collaborative care musculoskeletal healthcare clinic in Canada! Each patient visit at Couve Health consists of manual therapy and movement provided together, each session by two providers. The chiropractor/physiotherapist will provide the diagnosis of injury and manual therapy. The rehabilitation specialists (kinesiologists/ athletic therapists) will provide the movement prescription under direct prescription from the patient’s clinician.
Our target patient demographic shares these common values,
Autonomy – She feels empowered to make her own decisions and isn’t afraid to take action to make herself feel/be better.
Community – She gives back to charities, loves to participate in communal events, has a fitness community/circle, and enjoys being social.
Time and Quality – She believes that her time has a lot of value and gravitates towards convenience and effectiveness of care, and expects top-notch care from her musculoskeletal providers.

TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF
I am a sports chiropractor dedicated to providing exceptional patient-centered, evidence-based care for musculoskeletal pain. I’m specifically proficient in the use of patient education, manual therapies, and functional rehabilitation.
I grew up in Vancouver and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology at UBC, where I also played varsity football. I then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend Chiropractic school. And I assisted many local sporting teams/events within the area, such as the North Face Endurance Challenge, San Jose State Rugby, the former NFL Oakland Raiders, Sea Otter Classic, and many more.
After completing my last year of clinical rotations throughout various clinics in the US, from Alaska to Florida, I worked at Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine to help publish new research regarding cervical spine MRI segmentation. After that, I returned to full-time clinical practice in 2020 and am now extremely excited to finally be back home to provide my community with the highest level of evidence-based care musculoskeletal care.
My clinical journey with Couve Health began out of the clinical frustration that the people most in need of high-quality musculoskeletal care typically see their chiropractor or physiotherapist after they have given up trying to handle the pain or dysfunction themselves. This further encourages the fear-avoidance model of pain and ultimately leads them to a much higher probability of chronic pain. We aim to help solve this problem with a collaborative care MSK approach.
WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT AS A BUSINESS OWNER?
Opening up the first-ever Couve Health in Vancouver. Next year, we plan to open a second location and then expand across Canada. And also back to the US within 5-7 years.
WHAT’S ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS THAT COME WITH BEING A BUSINESS OWNER?
Delegating efficiently. We are now working on having systems in place to ensure each department of our business has parameters on how to do that delegation process effectively and efficiently.
WHAT ARE THE TOP TIPS YOU’D GIVE TO ANYONE LOOKING TO START, RUN AND GROW A BUSINESS TODAY?
Do it now. Learn as you make mistakes and correct them on the fly. The world is full of people asking themselves, what if I did this or that. Act now, fail fast and correct your mistakes along the way.
Paint a picture for the startup employees first of what problem you are trying to solve in the world. Then get them motivated around that reason to work hard to help solve that problem. People need a sense of how they are contributing to making the world a better place. Give them one.
Find out your weaknesses before starting your business and hire your staff to help offset your weaknesses. Double down on your strengths and delegate your weaknesses to others who are better suited to handle those.
WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS?
Website: https://www.couvehealth.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/couveheatlh
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/couvehealth/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/couveh
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/couve-health/

Get Yourself Moving Again From Your Swimming Injuries
Looking at it on a surface level, swimming injuries are unusual compared to other kinds of sports injuries. Besides, swimming is considered one of the best forms of full-body exercise as it works almost every muscle and joint in the body to move through the water.
Swimming has a lot of great benefits—building muscle strength, maintaining cardiovascular fitness, enhancing sleep, increasing endurance, and more to mention. This sport is low-impact and benefits most of us; however, it is still important to learn how to avoid getting injuries as they are common among every swimmer.
Injuries from swimming are usually caused by overuse in the joints and muscles. Other than that, more causes might be present in most swimmers, such as overexertion, short rest periods, poor stroke mechanics, poor breathing technique, lack of flexibility, reduced core strength, and improper swimming technique.
Most swimmers might feel just a little pinch or a slight stiffness within their muscles after a swimming routine, but keep in mind that these mild symptoms might lead to a more painful swimming injury if not taken care of at its earliest.
As much as swimming is a safe sport for everyone, let’s also keep in mind that injuries from this aren’t very much preventable at all.


ICBC Introduce Enhanced Care
ICBC, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, provides auto insurance, driver licensing, vehicle registration, road safety and other products and services. They are committed to protection and peace of mind for B.C. drivers, quality products and services, and offering customers the best coverage at the lowest possible price.
ICBC provide Enhanced Care – a new auto insurance for B.C, making insurance more affordable and providing better care and recovery benefits to anyone injured in a crash.
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Why It's Detrimental to Sit All Day
Many of us spend much of our day sitting. From sitting at a desk hunched over a computer to lounging on the couch scrolling on our phones. It’s easy to spend over 8 hours a day sat down.
Recently, many more of us have been more sedentary than normal. The change in working patterns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic also affected how much we’re moving around. In the beginning of 2021, 32% of Canadian employees were working remotely.
Remote working has many benefits, like cutting out lengthy commutes for people. However, it’s easy to forget the positive benefits that the act of moving from home to the office can have on our bodies. Instead, many of us are more sedentary. Sitting all day can actually be quite detrimental. We’re exploring more of why that is.
Sitting properly and having correct posture is important for many reasons. It is a simple but very important way to keep the main intricate structures in the back and spine healthy.
It is much more than cosmetic. Good posture and back support are critical to reducing the incidence and levels of back pain and neck pain. Back support is especially important for patients who spend many hours sitting in an office chair or standing throughout the day.
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