To help you live better, we pair you with a health coach who themselves live with chronic pain or work with people impacted by it
Keep you engaged
Guides you towards your health goals. No hacks. No shortcuts, Just results!
Keep you motivated
We use science-backed methods to help you make changes that reduce pain
Keep you on track
Companion app to get feedback, check your progress and chat when you need to
Specific to you
We make sure all changes are made to help you attain your personal health goals
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Get a program
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Give feedback &
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Darshita is a Licensed Physiotherapist and a Pilates Instructor. Darshita has helped 500+ individuals who live with chronic joint pain attain functional independence.
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Doris is a Certified Personal Trainer, Pilates and Yoga Instructor who helped hundreds of clients with chronic pain mover better. Doris lives with chronic pain from Fibromyalgia.
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Maya is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner & Nutritional Consultant
who specializes in helping people with pain make healthy, safe food and supplementation choices.
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Yes, Anooka will help you.
Exercise is the first line of defense in managing pain. Use of virtual exercise therapy has been proven in several clinical trials and been recommended as a primary intervention by OARSI (Osteoarthritis Research Society International).
In 2018, An assessment conducted by Health Quality Ontario observed that people reported positive experiences with a structured education and neuromuscular exercise program, feeling that it had strengthened their muscles and reduced their symptoms of stiffness and pain.
An individual trained in helping people with mindset change to adopt healthy lifestyles.
Coping with new normal after an injury or a diagnosis of chronic disease can be difficult, health coaches are your guide in navigating you towards a healthier lifestyle to prevent bad health outcomes.
Anooka Health Coaches help you build your own playbook to living a healthy life. They understand each person's experience with pain is unique. It is influenced not just by what is causing you pain but also where you live and work, what you can afford and have access to that can alleviate pain.
All our health (or Anooka) coaches have a background in Kinesiology, exercise science, certifications in ACSM, some of them licensed physiotherapists and some living with chronic pain due to musculoskeletal conditions.
You will have unlimited chat access with your coach, reach out whenever you need support, motivation, feedback on exercise technique to stay on course. One video meet a month to reassess your progress.
Remember, your coach is your biggest supporter, feel at ease to reach out to them. If any exercises increase pain or discomfort stop exercising and do not forget to reach out to your coach for feedback or modifications.
If you are unsure of your condition, you can do a quick self-evaluation here. If you have a pre-existing condition, please check with your doctor if you can perform unsupervised exercises. If your doctor has already cleared or recommended regular exercise, you are at the right place.
Should you have comorbidities such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Chronic Kidney disease, Obesity, Thyroid and chronic cardiovascular, respiratory or metabolic conditions please do inform us.
Should you have any questions on if Anooka is for you, write to us at: hello@anookahealth.com, and we will get back to you within 24 hours.
Yes you can still use the Anooka platform, as long as you can perform exercises without supervision.
During our assessment please mention about your pain areas, triggers and we will factor it in when preparing your personalized program.
Generally a mat, 7-8 feet of free area, chair with no wheels is enough for the exercises. Sometimes you may require use of resistance bands. Our exercise programs are tailored to your available equipment at home.
If you progress well and need any additional equipment, we will help you find the right equipment. Just drop a line to your health coach and they will be glad to help you.
At Anooka, we use research-informed best practices in developing our programs for you.
Virtual and internet based exercise therapy along with mind-body activities and pain neuroscience education for chronic joint pain is proven to be effective in reducing pain and increasing mobility in multiple randomized clinical trials conducted in the last 5 years.
Partnered exercising modes derived from Köhler effect that has been widely researched to help with weight loss and for women living with pain from Fibromyalgia, where it was proven to be an effective intervention.
Anooka is a personalized program with an app, that is put together by a group of experts that understand pain, your body, environment and pace. By pairing with an elite health coach you share your accountability with a person who can help you towards living a better life.
Currently, you need to be paired with one of our coaches to get access to our app. We have more experiences planned for the future that open up access to members without requiring to be paired with a coach.
We will be opening up more spots for July 2022, soon. Pleas leave your email ID below and one of our coaches will get back to you to set up a Free 20-min Call.