What I bring to the table is a willingness to teach and a reluctance to stop learning. I love what I do, and I believe our profession can only grow if we commit to growing ourselves. I’ve had the chance to work with university and professional athletes, the 2010 Olympic Games, and the medical team at Le Cirque du Soleil—each experience shaped the way I practice and deepened my respect for this work. I’m also a clinical educator and mentor for the UBC program, and I approach every session as an opportunity to share what I’ve learned and to keep learning alongside others. That early spark began when I was 11, sitting in a physio clinic with a knee injury from hockey, thinking, “This job is awesome—I want to do this.” It took me halfway across the world to study at the University of Queensland, a global leader in physiotherapy, and more recently, to complete my Fellowship in clinical orthopaedics.
What I bring to the table is a willingness to teach and a reluctance to stop learning. I love what I do, and I believe our profession can only grow if we commit to growing ourselves. I’ve had the chance to work with university and professional athletes, the 2010 Olympic Games, and the medical team at Le Cirque du Soleil—each experience shaped the way I practice and deepened my respect for this work. I’m also a clinical educator and mentor for the UBC program, and I approach every session as an opportunity to share what I’ve learned and to keep learning alongside others. That early spark began when I was 11, sitting in a physio clinic with a knee injury from hockey, thinking, “This job is awesome—I want to do this.” It took me halfway across the world to study at the University of Queensland, a global leader in physiotherapy, and more recently, to complete my Fellowship in clinical orthopaedics.
My treatment philosophy is simple: take a step back and observe the whole body. Find the path of dysfunction, and follow it to the source of pain. If something’s not working—change it. Do the unexpected. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Every client is different, and a fresh perspective often unlocks the next step forward.
As I have gotten older, I’ve started to spend less time training in the gym and early morning skates and more time working out chasing my kids around. Less balancing on Swiss balls and more balancing life. Don’t get me wrong, that feeling of skates cutting into a fresh sheet of ice still gives me goose bumps, but I now have a different goal in life and I am putting all that fire towards them.
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