Yonge Street Health Walk Sites
Community health services
September 12th 2015
Community health services
September 12th 2015
Meeting Place – start of walk: Yonge Blvd Parkette 3444 Yonge Str
9:30am – 9:40am
Please note that the first three sites may not be able to accommodate wheel chair accessibility... however Locke Library is accessible.
•Continuum Wellness: 3402 Yonge Street (9:45am to 10:05am)
We are the largest, fully integrated natural health care centre in the neighborhood, staffing 16 Registered Therapists and Licensed Health Care Professionals. The clinic is open 7 days a week with flexible and convenient appointment times for Registered Massage Therapy, Chiropractic Care, Nutrition, Acupuncture, Reflexology and Psychotherapy services
> Common injuries and therapies used to treat those injuries – what you need to do to help you heal and maintain good health
•The Raw Juice Company: 3345 Yonge Street (10:20am – 10:35am)
Have fresh juice for purchase – nutritional benefit, vitamin/ mineral intake (walkers will be given a free sample to taste)
> Vitamins / minerals found within different juices – figure out which one you may need more
•Lawrence Park Animal Hospital: 3158 Yonge Street (10:50am – 11:05am)
A veterinary hospital serving clients and patients in the Lawrence Park and neighbouring area for over fifty years. In 1992, Dr. Larry Wilder renovated the previous hospital and renamed it “Lawrence Park Animal Hospital”.
We pride ourselves in our friendly and helpful staff members and provide top notch customer service care for you and your pets. Our doctors and staff are always involving themselves in continuing education courses and keeping up-to-date with the newest and latest in veterinary medicine to be able to provide the greatest care.
Our services include boarding, diagnostic imaging, laser therapy, medicine, microchipping, nutrition counselling, surgery and wellness and prevention. We are also part of the Potcake Rescue Group (we help find homes for Potcake puppies), they travel to us from Turk’s and Caicos, we examine them and provide any care of treatment before finding them a forever home.
> Extension of Love and Care – what treatments are available for your pets so that you know where to go and what to ask for
•Locke Library: 3083 Yonge Street (11:20am – noon)
At the neighborhood library , our keynote speaker shares his passion for transforming communities from a health perspective.
Dr. James Maskalyk currently practices emergency medicine and is an assistant professor at University of Toronto. He will talk about the profound experiences he had as part of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) while in Sudan, experiences shared in his book Six Months in Sudan , and his current work partnering with Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University to develop a program that will train the country’s emergency physicians.
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