Dianne DeCook, RMT

I am working at the new Surrey Chiropractic, full time beginning August 4, 2020. Call 604-498-4974 to book an appointment.

I will be working at Surrey Chiropractic on Fridays beginning June 12th. Call 604-498-4974 to book an appointment.

I am currently in the process of contacting & rebooking patients beginning the week of June 8th. If I have not called you I have not forgotten. I'm simply working down the list. I look forward to seeing you soon!

I will be returning to work June 8, and will begin calling patients to rebook cancelled appointments early next week. Among the many changes, my hours are reduced for the interim period. As things return to a more normal state my hours will expand. Thank you for your patience at this time. I look forward to seeing you soon!

As many of you know already, the Provincial Government has okayed RMT's to return to work. There are many, many steps that we need to complete before our return to work. We need to re-evaluate all of our cleaning protocols, make sure we have adequate PPE's and most importantly we are awaiting direction and guidance from both the Province and our regulatory College. As soon as we have accomplished these steps I will be in contact with my patients to rebook cancelled appointments. I look forward to speaking with you and advising you on all the changes that will be made so that we can safely move into Phase 2 of opening up the province of BC. Until then, I wish you and your loved ones good health & happiness.

As soon as we are allowed back to work I will be calling my patients to get them rescheduled. In the meantime, I hope you are all safe and well.

Some food for thought:

I look forward to returning to practice when the Covid-19 situation is over. Please stay safe!

It's going to be a while before we are providing service. I hope my patients are safe and well.

Sharing this hopeful & positive post. I think Canada also has a vaccination in early stages of testing.

This is the reason I have chosen to take the next two weeks off. My temperature was slightly elevated this morning, though I feel completely fine. In the best interest of my patients and the general public I chose to self-isolate. This afternoon the CMTBC strongly suggested we stop treating patients to help stop the spread of Covid-19. I look forward to returning to work March 30th.... Be well!

THIS is why things are being cancelled due to #COVID19 in one perfect picture. It is NOT because people are getting hysterical or because they believe the virus... is so deadly they are panicking. It is because we only have so much capacity to deal with lot of very sick people. If we can delay the spread by keeping people away from each other, we have a chance to help more people effectively and not overwhelm hospitals and infrastructure. There are only so many nurses, doctors, hospital beds and pieces of equipment to help people that may eventually get virus related pneumonia. PLEASE SHARE so that people understand this is public health strategy by the CDC, not mass hysteria or over reaction. AND, keep washing your hands because the soap will kill the virus better than anything else! Update: Just found the original source of this graphic and want to give credit to https://www.scistyle.com/

A little information about Covid-19:

An updated note from your friendly neighborhood biologist about what cleaning products you can use to disinfect SARS-cov2, the novel coronavirus. This is a vir...us thats sort of medium hard to kill, and it looks like it can survive on surfaces for at least a few days. Its probably spread mostly by droplets, primarily by coughing, and then you would inoculate yourself by touching something those droplets were on and then touching your nose or mouth. This exact strain of coronavirus hasnt undergone the same testing that, say, the flu has, so everyone is currently extrapolating kill times from the data we have for other coronavirus family members. The EPA is keeping a running list of what products can kill this virus and what their kill times are (which is how long the product has to be in contact with the virus) and that link is at the end of this post. In general you can think of this as being harder to kill than normal influenza but easier than Norovirus. Heres what you can use to disinfect: Bleach - sodium hypochlorite, germicidal bleach, not scented or splashless, diluted 1:10 in water. Kill times will be somewhere around 1 minute of contact time, so its best if you can spray and just leave it. Bleach converts entirely to table salt and oxygen as it dries, so theres no residue. Best practice is to make up a fresh dilution of this daily. Accelerated hydrogen peroxide (Note that this is not regular hydrogen peroxide, which needs 2-3 hours of sustained soaking kill this virus on surfaces) - kill times around 1 minute. This should probably be wiped down later on food surfaces. The new Purell disinfecting spray - this goes by different names (Healthcare, professional, multisurface, food surface, and now there are wipes) but its all essentially the same thing, and its an alcohol-based disinfectant. Kill times around 1 minute. This is my personal favorite but its hard to find right now. This does not leave any harmful residue. Quaternary amine sprays - this is Lysol, Microban, anything with something like benzalkonium chloride" in the name. This is actually a huge class of compounds so you may need to just look up the active ingredient to see if it's a quat. Kill times are between 4 and 10 minutes and this should be cleaned later from food surfaces. You need to find products that are rated for rotavirus, norovirus, or parvovirus and follow those instructions. If your quat compound is not on the EPA list and it doesn't have one or more of those kill times listed, it is probably not going to work. Quaternary amine wipes - regular Clorox or Lysol wipes are better than absolutely nothing but probably arent strong enough to kill this virus. Again, make sure the ones you have are rated for Rotovirus or Norovirus and use those contact times. The long contact times (4-10 minutes of staying wet) are in practice hard to accomplish with a wipe, so I really dont recommend them. Regular old alcohol, isopropyl or ethanol, at least 60% - 30 second kill time and requires evaporation, so just saturate and let it air dry. This wont leave a residue. This can be liquid or the hand sanitizer-type gel, just make sure its at least 60% alcohol. The CDC is saying 70% or more but the source papers suggest between 62 and 71% is ideal. Force of nature - this is a kit that makes hypochlorous acid, which is a bleach alternative thats much easier on your lungs. Kill times are 10 minutes and theres no residue. Soap and water - not a disinfectant but anything you can suds up for 30 seconds and rinse off thoroughly will be essentially decontaminated. Heat - at one point they were recommending dryer heat for killing the virus, but apparently there are strains that can survive 60 degrees Celcius for like an hour, so that means your dryer is not going to cut it. Boiling on the stove for 15 minutes, however, will. Just to preempt this: no essential oil product has ever passed testing for this (or, for that matter, any) virus. Note that there *is* science to suggest EOs have antimicrobial properties, but what you really need is to test the product against a range of human pathogens and report that data; this is what the EPA testing does and the fact that zero EO products have done this, despite the testing being relatively inexpensive and definitely desirable for sales, tells me they either failed or knew they would fail. Drying out, alone, doesnt seem to be effective. Surface survival ranges from multiple days for hard plastic to maybe 24 hours on cardboard Vinegar, while its my favorite cleaner of all time, is an absolute crap disinfectant, so skip that. What do you need to disinfect? This disease vector is, overwhelmingly, your hands. Dont bother disinfecting your floors, but anything that gets touched by a lot of hands (doorknobs, your phone, etc) would be fair game. And while disinfecting heavily touched surfaces is a good idea, frequent hand washing is still the single most important thing people can do in this situation. Hand washing with soap and water is best, alcohol-based hand sterilizer if you cant wash is good. Packages and deliveries are not zero risk, but I have 100% run out of energy for disinfecting everything that comes into the house, and I've settled for just constantly washing my hands. This isnt an exhaustive list, but should cover some of the stuff you have at home. EPA release on this: https://www.epa.gov//list-n-disinfectants-use-against-sars CDC recommendations: https://www.cdc.gov//prevent-ge/cleaning-disinfection.html More sources on survival times: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4462923/ https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com//S0195/fulltext https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.036855v1

ICYMI: Opinion: There are key habits we can all adopt to help build herd immunity against coronavirus, including cleaning your mobile device twice daily

With so much fear and misinformation about Covid19 going about, it's good to put things in perspective. Here is a comparison of the infectivity of various dise...ases, and discussion of comparative "case fatality rate" (CFR) "Another important number for understanding diseases is the The seasonal flu has a low CFR, but enough people get it every year that the CDC estimates as many as 30,000 Americans may have died from it between October 2019 and February 2020." https://www.popsci.com/story/health/how-diseases-spread

Some information you may find helpful.

I am currently accepting new patients. If you are looking for Massage Therapy in the Guildford area please call 604-800-2244 to book an appointment or register with our on line booking through the link below.

This is an exciting development!

Some info on the Carona virus:

Mental health is important to you and everyone. Learn how to take care of yourself and others. Tip 1: Look for common signs of stress. Tip 2: Once youve reco...gnized signs of stress, check in and take the time to listen to yourself. Tip 3: Take action to ensure your needs are met. Find support systems to help you cope with stress. Tip 4: Have coping strategies in place for when youre feeling stressed. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2RDObBH #BellLetsTalk See more

Our clinic is closed today due to the weather conditions. Many patients cancelled because they were not comfortable driving in the snow. We want everyone to be safe.

Consider that you don't pay GST when you see your family doctor, your dentist or physiotherapist. Why should you pay GST on Registered Massage Therapy? You shouldn't!

Effective December 16th I will be moving to We Massage Clinic, located at 15387 104 Ave Suite 102, Surrey, BC V3R 1N5. Phone: 604-800-2244 On-line booking: https://wemassage.janeapp.com/

HOW DOES MANUAL THERAPY WORK? We've shown you quite a couple of different mobilization and manipulation techniques in the last couple of weeks for different bod...y parts. But how does MT actually work? Can we break down adhesions, put vertebraes back in to place etc.? While some health professionals might opt to not use manual therapy at all anymore (fair enough!), the ones using it should make sure their narrative is in line with the latest evidence! Watch the video to learn which different working mechanisms are probably underlying manual therapy!