About Jamie

Education

• MSc Physiotherapy with Distinction, - Leeds Beckett University 2007
• BA Hons Kinesiology - University of Western Ontario 2002

Credentials/Continuing Education Highlights

• NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT) Level 3
• Neurofunctional Medical Acupuncture, McMaster University 2007
• Anatomy in Motion (AiM) - Finding Centre full course
• Rocktape FMT Basic and Advanced Taping
• Level II Upper Advanced Orthopedic Manual & Manipulative Physiotherapy
• Level II Lower Advanced Orthopedic Manual & Manipulative Physiotherapy
• Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA)
• Advanced Functional Assessment of MSK problems
• Advanced Needling Techniques for Musculoskeletal Problems

Experience/Field Work

• Pan AM Medical staff Equestrian sport 2015
• Ontario Women's U23 Rugby Physiotherapist - 2009 season
• Marlies' Midget AAA hockey Physiotherapist - 2009 season
• OUA championship UWO Track & Field team student trainer 2001-2002 season
• Student experience - Leeds Tykes Premiership Rugby 2005-2007 seasons

Philosophy

Jamie takes a global, functional movement approach to re-pattern muscular and movement dysfunction. This efficiently affords her clients optimal performance, biomechanics, and the pain-free ability to move. Treatment often involves soft tissue work, motor control assessment and re-patterning, functional movement techniques, mobility from the foot up, and electroacupuncture if tolerated. Jamie would love to see people before they start a new season, sport, or on a “Pre-hab, check up” basis to optimize biomechanics before injury occurs. Her clientele includes crossfitters, runners, professional and international rugby players, musicians, professional dancers, equestrians, stunt performers, and the WWE performers.

Jamie had her fair share of athletic injuries falling off of horses, spraining ankles playing basketball, and living an active childhood/adolescence, so she understands her craft as a professional and a patient. Her athletic background gives her the innate understanding of how injuries change your biomechanics and create compensations over time that lead to pain, dysfunction, and sub-optimal performance. Her goal in treatment is to restore muscle firing, optimize joint mobility and ensure that her clients have access to stability and mobility to decrease pain, but also to ensure they have the optimal biomechanics to give them longevity and success in their chosen sport and activity. She grew up with medical professionals and was instilled with the values of continuing education, diligence, innovation, empathy and curiosity which continuously inform her practice.

Personal experience/interests

Jamie competed for many years on the A-level equestrian circuit on hunters and jumpers, and is an avid runner, having completed her first half-marathon in 2001. Her other sports interests include crossfit, basketball, swimming and she is a certified level 1 CSIA ski instructor.

Favourite bone: Jamie loves the talus because it drives the bus. It helps determine what muscles and joints get loaded up the chain, to drive movement from the tips of your toes to the top of your head, and from the nervous system out.