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Oct. 15, 2019 -

Career Planning

Caseload Management

How Self-Reflection Makes You a Better Physiotherapist

In school, we learn how important it is to be a self-reflective physiotherapist. But, as much as this concept was drilled into us, many of us have forgotten about it. Not because we don’t believe in its importance, but because it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day business of treating patients and running a practice. With today’s high demand for healthcare and not enough staff to provid...

Oct. 01, 2019 -

Career Planning

Alberta Physio Spotlight: Elizabeth Sutton - Why Patient Pain Needs More Than Courses and X-rays to Help

With nearly 35 years of experience as a physiotherapist, Elizabeth Sutton has grown in her understanding of pain, patient care and being investigative as a therapist. Her career began mostly in the neuro/senior setting, and then over time she transitioned to orthopaedics. What was supposed to be a short move to Lethbridge in 1988, became long-term after she fell in love with the region and the...

Health Coaching – Not ‘just one more thing’

Sept. 24, 2019 -

Career Planning

New challenges need new approaches – and this is certainly true in health care! While there have been remarkable successes in treating acute diseases, the flip side is that there has been a surge i...

Aug. 23, 2019 -

Career Planning

Alberta Physio Spotlight: Terry Lerner - Things I Wish I Had Known in My PT Career

As she closed a 36-year career as a Physiotherapist this August, Terry Lerner realized she had learned a thing or two that may be of help to others. After graduating from the University of Alberta in 1983, she started her career in a hospital setting, rotating through all the outpatients, inpatients, home care and extended care. Now, a few decades later, she has done everything from private p...

June 26, 2019 -

Alberta Physio Spotlight: Anthony Yong - Open-minded Business Leadership

When clinician leads to business ownership, it often means there’s been a road of the right yes’s and no’s along the way. After completing nine years of schooling, Anthony Yong (BScPT, FCAMPT, BPE), Director of Innovation Physical Therapy in Sherwood Park and Edmonton, realized that working one-on-one with patients was the priority for him. But it only took a few years into that before he dec...

April 29, 2019 -

Therapeutic Exercise

Webinar Replay: Expand Your Shoulder Exercise Repertoire

As physiotherapists, a core component of our treatment is therapeutic exercise. But delivering the right exercise for the right person can be a challenge at times. In this ~45-minute webinar replay exclusive to ignitephysio members, Andrew will help you expand your shoulder exercise toolkit. Topics include Better Rotator Cuff Exercises and Serratus Anterior Exercise Progressions.

April 15, 2019 -

Alberta Physio Spotlight: Josh Bashow – Helping People Stand Stronger in Life and Career

When you’ve spent the majority of your career helping clients with spinal cord injuries fight to get their life back, you yourself stand a little taller. Not from pride or mere ambition, though that exists, but from fulfillment. From doing the thing you were born to do. For Josh Bashow, Manager, Allied Health Department at the Foothill Medical Centre in Calgary, his fulfillment comes every da...

March 14, 2019 -

Alberta Physio Spotlight: Pat Fonstad – A Fighter for What She Wants and a Receiver of Good Advice

When a recipient of the Golden Hands Award says that cycling 30 km in a day is an ‘easy ride’ – you stop and listen. Though Patricia Fonstad, or Pat as her patients lovingly call her, is nearing the end of her career, her years as a MSK Clinical Specialist have taught her a thing or two that still reward her life today. “No one gets to this stage in their career by themselves; I have stood on ...

Feb. 13, 2019 -

Alberta Physio Spotlight: Paul Hunter – Olympic Short-Track Physiotherapist with a Long-Track Vision

As a kid, he spent the quiet days of summer with his Grandma, roaming the countryside in her Honda Civic packed with a 2x6 and a shovel, looking for the perfect fishing spot. She was the one who taught him to fish, and now Paul Hunter, Calgary Physiotherapist, gets to pass on his love for sport, adventure and the great outdoors. Transitioning out of what has been a hectic, but fulfilling, 12-y...

Jan. 13, 2019 -

Healthy Aging: What It Means for Physiotherapists

Since the release of the 2017 Canadian Census, aging, and the onset of the 'grey tsunami' has had a lot of media attention – longer lifespans and a lower birth rate mean that the proportion of adults over 65 in the overall population has been increasing since early in the 20th century[1]. Much of the medical literature on aging has to do with managing or treating disease (acute or chronic) or ...

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