My Practice

If you are not familiar with my practice in B.C., you will be interested to know the following information:

I have been working as a Certified Athletic Therapist, and have been responsible for providing outstanding Athletic Therapy service to elite athletes at the National and Professional team level since 1994. I have worked with athletes and teams at various National Championships, World Cups, World Championships, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. For almost seven years, I worked for Rowing Canada Aviron on a full time basis as the National Team Athletic Therapist. My specialty is in the area of Osteopathic Manual Practice, and I received my full designation as a Non-Physician Osteopathic Manual Practitioner in 2008 from the Canadian College of Osteopathy.

My regular clients particularly value my unique way of looking at an injury that includes finding the cause through the evaluation not only of the musculoskeletal system, but of the interrelationship of all systems and the structures of the body. Once the cause has been found, it can be treated with gentle hands-on osteopathic techniques and / or more traditional athletic therapy based interventions. The techniques I choose for each client are unique and depend on an individual's history. These may include soft tissue release, modalities, myofasical work, cranio-sacral type treatment, visceral manipulation, joint mobilization, stretching, home exercise programs, taping, muscle energy techniques, strain-counter-strain, dynamic warm-ups, ELDOA™postures, and other safe, effective, and efficient techniques to help optimize recovery.

My role as a practitioner is that of a facilitator to encourage your body's natural ability to heal it's self and move towards a state of balance. My goal is to assist you in improving your function to allow you to perform your activity at your highest level, whether it be taking a first step after knee surgery, getting back to gardening, or winning an Olympic gold medal.