I'm a Registered Physiotherapist who builds positive lifestyles through active living.

Can you enjoy your work if you don’t enjoy yourself?

No.

As a registered Physiotherapist I understand that active rehabilitation is constantly evolving. It’s not about leading the perfect life, but instead building towards the life you enjoy.

That’s where the practice what you preach ethos comes in. Enjoying who you are means acknowledging that consistency trumps perfection every time. Building positive lifestyle habits and encouraging enjoyable activity is what creates success, not being an infallible gym-going Terminator.

Nowhere is this ethos more present than in my experience specializing in acute medical care and traumatic brain injury rehab. The goal is always to do what you can, when you can, and allowing time to turn that consistent practice into measurable results.

Being human is what I’m about. Enjoy life. Have your cake, and eat it too! Working together to create long-term positive lifestyle change starts by taking things one step at a time. Once that first step happens we take another.

And then another.

What I’ve Done

Acute Care

Working with NHS Ayrshire & Arran pushed me to get properly stuck into acute inpatient care, helping those unfortunate enough to face an inpatient hospital admission. My team covered 9 clinical specialties including the medical HDU, infectious diseases, acute cardiac care, gastroenterology, and acute respiratory wards. This role drove me; supporting the on-call emergency physiotherapy service simultaneously with a ward based care model pushed me to be an even better clinician.

Pitchside Physiotherapy

Moving to Glasgow, Scotland provided the opportunity to partner with Lacrosse Scotlandas their Head Physiotherapist. My work with these athletes includes the expected acute injury assessment and treatment, soft tissue manual therapy, and medium- to long-term injury management as the team trains and competes in Scotland, the UK, the 2023 World Championships in San Diego, and the 2025 European Championships in Poland. A particular emphasis is placed on coordinating effective between-camp rehab as these athletes continue to train and compete with their club teams.

During my time in Scotland I augmented my work with Lacrosse Scotland by supporting Hillhead Jordanhill RFC as their Head Physiotherapist. This role involved close collaboration with the Scottish Rugby Union to support Hills athletes also competing with Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic Challenge elite women’s league.

Prior to this from 2019 to 2021 I was a member of the Vancouver Rowing Club rugby team medical staff providing acute sports rehab. This included matchday taping, bracing, and soft tissue manual therapy, touchline and on-field injury assessment and acute injury management. Outside of my matchday responsibilities I provided sports rehab and injury management throughout weekly training sessions. Frequent focuses included acute head trauma, shoulder, and lower limb injuries.

Concussion Rehab

From 2019 to 2022 I worked with British Columbia’s leading concussion management providers in multiple clinical settings to enhance the quality of concussion care available in BC. Through this time I provided interdisciplinary assessment and treatment for mild and moderate brain injury encompassing the autonomic, physiologic, visual, vestibular, oculomotor, and cognitive systems.

Most prominently, my role as Lead Kinesiologist at Advance Concussion Clinic allowed me to explore private practice interdisciplinary care while working with elite athletes, RCMP programs, and general populations.

Notable highlights and projects in concussion rehab have included:

• Development of two distinct clinical pathways to enhance concussion care and improve client outcomes: an Initial Concussion Consultation and an Elite Sport Concussion Assessment

• Production of an “About Concussion” client education booklet synthesizing modern best-practice concussion literature in an easily digestible format which improved clinical outcomes and increased client confidence, knowledge, and self-efficacy

• Evolved a clinical rounds system to better facilitate high-level clinical discussion highlighting high-priority clients

• Collaborated on a research abstract submitted to the International Brain Injury Association (2021)

Contact

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