Primal Care Center

12/12/2025

Wonderful opportunity to learn, share and uplift language revitalization. This course is sponsored by Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) and as a result, is FREE for everyone. Dr. Nadeau previously participated in this course and was overwhelmed by the beautiful community it projects and it is run by an amazing non-profit with multiple other learning opportunities.

We invite ALL Métis and willing non-Métis allies who wish to learn to uplift language revitalization. This course is sponsored by Métis Nation British

11/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN48vsWHut0

Webinar Recording: Canadian Disability Benefits: From Application to AppealPresented by: Judy Clark, LSO Paralegal, Advocate, Notary Public & Geoff Hume, LSO...

07/02/2023

We have opened our schedule post-maternity leave in a limited capacity with an increase in shifts and availability over the coming weeks/months as Dr. Nadeau is physically capable of doing so. You can book directly on our website at

Primal Care Center

11/07/2021

Some new traditions for the holidays? Evening walks with warm drinks, soup and snow soccer in the park, yoga pose freeze tag with the kids? Incorporating more movement into the holidays can bring more joy and Katy has lots of suggestions about how to make the holidays less sedentary.

A class regular came in the other day noting that all the progress she had made on a frozen shoulder had been undone by nine months of sitting inside reading. Her comments reminded me of…

03/26/2021

Our third and last session in the inaugural Partners in Pain event series was great! We had presentations from Tracy Fichtner and Taylor Raiche on resources for dealing with pain, from Wanda Poirer on her personal pain journey, and from Wendy Nesseth on the importance of mind-body connections through gentle yoga. We had 31 people participating!

Don't forget to keep an eye out for future events through the Improving Pain in Saskatchewan project.

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01/05/2021

We have re-opened our schedule as of January 14th 2021 on a part-time basis post-maternity leave. For emergency cases, please put your availability in terms of date/time on the wait list on our booking page and we will do our best to try and accommodate you. Thank you all for your well wishes, gifts, patience and understanding!

04/23/2020

As per the government of Saskatchewan's mandate, we will be reopening on Monday May 4th with online booking reopening on Monday April 27th.

We will be taking the following precautions to ensure both our and our patients safety:
- You will be encouraged to remain in your vehicle and we will text message you when we are ready for your appointment time.
- All patients will be required to wear a mask provided by us during their time in the clinic.
- You will be required to wash your hands upon arrival.
- The time slots appearing on our booking page will be longer to allow for cleaning of surfaces between each patient appointment.
- No guests will be permitted in the office for standard appointments unless accompanying a minor or someone in need of assistance.

Please note that this re-opening is tentative and will only occur if PPE is available for us to ensure everyone's safety.

Thank you all for your understanding as we navigate the social distancing parameters as best as we can. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send us a message.

04/07/2020

Here is an excellent resource from Katy Bowman, a biomechanist, for understanding how to breathe better and the various components to address so your chest, back and shoulders have improved mobility as well:

HOW TO MOVE YOUR BREATHING PARTS BETTER This seems like a really good time to talk about breathing and how the amount of oxygen you take in is affected by your musculoskeletal system. If you know you’re driving into a storm, you check your headlights and windshield wipers to make sure they’re wo...

02/17/2020

Many interesting studies are surfacing demonstrating that your mental well-being, social interactions and overall mood are correlated with what you eat and taking supplements of prebiotics and probiotics just doesn’t cut it. Eating foods naturally high in prebiotics and probiotics as well as fermented foods is associated with the most diverse intestinal microbiome and positive mental and social factors.

The gut microbiome has a measurable impact on the brain, influencing stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms and social behaviour. This microbiome–gut–br…

12/30/2019

We've obtained infrared goggles: black-out goggles with cameras in them to record eye movements.

These are used to test vestibulo-ocular (inner ear influence on eye movement) and cervico-ocular (neck receptors influence on eye movement) reflexes as these can definitely play a significant part in chronic neck pain.

Here is the conclusion from a clinical trial published in Experimental Brain Research last year:

"Severely impaired chronic neck pain patients have an
elevated cervical-ocular reflex and an unchanged vestibulo-ocular reflex compared to healthy controls. This elevation seems to be independent of the traumatic or non-traumatic origin of complaints. The group of neck pain patients with altered eye stabilization reflexes is thereby bigger than suspected."

For the original paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-017-5127-9

12/19/2019

We are proud to announce that Dr. Joelle Nadeau is now part of the Department of Family Medicine, Chiropractic Division of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, and in addition to getting care at our clinic, she now has privileges at all of the hospitals in Saskatoon should you require care in collaboration with your physicians' recommendations when admitted.

12/10/2019

Migraine treatments are evolving and recognizing the large part that the cranial nerves and brainstem have in its pathology. These non-invasive therapies were recently FDA-approved in the USA and are not available in Canada and include a device that gently puffs air into the ear canal to stimulate the vague nerve and a nerve stimulation device that electrically affects the top branch of the trigeminal nerve on the forehead.

2018 may have been a pivotal year in migraine treatment with the release of CGRP monoclonal antibodies, but that was merely the first wave of new treatments for people with migraine disease. As 2019 winds down, there are more promising treatments in the pipeline than ever before, all aiming at diffe...