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Outpatient musculoskeletal / orthopaedic physiotherapy in a work injury specialty clinic. Cases included: rotator cuff related pain, low back pain with and without radicular pain, frozen shoulder, ankle sprain, post compartment-syndrome, post knee-replacement...The position involved direct collaboration with affiliated surgeons for severe cases.

Conducted a qualitative study on "experiences attending a group based exercise class for people living with HIV." Published in BMJ Open.

Outpatient Neurological Rehabilitation with a focus on Bobath principles.Cases included: stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, neuro-developmental disorders...www.conceptphysio.com

Inpatient Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation with a focus on post hip-replacement and hip ORIF inpatient care.

Assisting with the facilitation of mock exams for internationally educated physiotherapist candidates.Trained 8 volunteers in time keeping, station rotation, and flow of 40 candidates per mock-exam. Managed station set-up and orientation of 20 examiners and 20 standardized patients per group.https://oiepb.utoronto.ca/

Inpatient care on the acute cardiovascular surgery floor. Position included time in the Intensive Care Unit.

Demonstrated precision in collecting quantitative clinical data using, among others, carotid ultrasound imaging, DXA imaging, spirometry, 12 lead ECG, and anthropometric measures"The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is a large, national, long-term study that will follow approximately 50,000 individuals who are between the ages of 45 and 85 when recruited, for at least 20 years. The CLSA will collect information on the changing biological, medical, psychological, social… Show more Demonstrated precision in collecting quantitative clinical data using, among others, carotid ultrasound imaging, DXA imaging, spirometry, 12 lead ECG, and anthropometric measures"The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is a large, national, long-term study that will follow approximately 50,000 individuals who are between the ages of 45 and 85 when recruited, for at least 20 years. The CLSA will collect information on the changing biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and economic aspects of people’s lives. These factors will be studied to understand how, individually and in combination, they have an impact in both maintaining health and in the development of disease and disability as people age." - https://www.clsa-elcv.ca/ Show less

Data collection and synthesis for research looking at walking gait analysis to identify fall risk in elderly individuals.