Postpartum Physiotherapy Tune-ups Should be a Thing
If you picked up two ten-pound weights, put them in a backpack, and then carried them around absolutely everywhere you went for a few months, do you think parts of your body would suffer for it? You might start to hunch forward to try to support the extra weight on...
Knee Injury Prevention Starts with Physiotherapy in Puberty
You may have heard about the rash of knee injuries in professional women’s soccer lately. Or maybe not since, after all, women’s sports in general get such poor coverage. Don’t even get me started on that. Okay, so if you’re an uber-fan of women’s soccer like I am...
Veronica’s Sports and Physiotherapy Journey
Growing up I always knew I wanted a career helping others. I wasn’t sure what that career would be though, until I had my first major injury at soccer at eleven years old. I injured my low back while sprinting for the ball. My injury shocked my parents, because...
Simple Screening for Common Conditions in Newborns
I thank my lucky stars every day that I am a physiotherapist and that I have paediatric experience. If I didn’t then things would have turned out a whole lot differently for both my children. I often see parents with children with certain conditions that were caught...