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Video Blog: How to properly lift a canoe without hurting your back

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Amy Fahlman, a CAMPT-Certified physiotherapist, talks about how backcountry canoe camping is an excellent way to decrease stress and improve your mental health. However, if you don't lift a canoe properly you risk back injuries or making an existing back issue worse.
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Video Blog: How to properly lift a canoe without hurting your back
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Backcountry canoe camping is an excellent way to decrease stress and improve your mental health. However, if you don't lift a canoe properly you risk back injuries or making an existing back issue worse.

How backcountry camping can decrease stress, pain, and renew your appreciation for life.
How backcountry camping can decrease stress, pain, and renew your appreciation for life.

As a physiotherapist, I commonly encounter how a high demand, high distraction lifestyle manifests not only as mental anguish, but physical pain.  Recent research has shown that you can reverse these negative effects by spending time in nature.   These are the top 5 reasons to backcountry camp.