Meet Our Physiotherapy Team

At Reactivate, movement-based rehabilitation using physiotherapy skills is an essential therapeutic element on our team to help our clients to get back moving again.

Natural movement is progressive. You don’t suddenly morph into a skilled, efficient, natural mover when you are born or reach some arbitrary milestone in life, such as adulthood. On the contrary, the acquisition of movement skills and adaptability is a relatively slow process. Furthermore, it cannot be rushed without consequences. The same goes for engaging in movements that are required when someone engages in a sport, a workplace physical task, or a favorite active past time.

Injuries don’t always show up all of a sudden because something traumatic happens. It is often a “straw that broke the camel’s back” situation where an abnormal movement pattern that has been used for months, if not years, finally results in an injury.

This is what our physiotherapy team does. They find that abnormal pattern, educate our clients as to what led them to the injury, empower them to engage in the rehabilitative process, and then progressively retrain the way the body moves so that this doesn’t happen again. Along the way, these movement-based techniques will result in a body that is, stronger, more stable, more efficient, and more resilient to whatever life throws its way.

Read more about the physiotherapy team at Reactivate Muskoka in this featured article in the Doppler Online.

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Katie Macaskill

PHYSIOTHERAPIST

As a graduate from the Masters of Physiotherapy program at Queens University, building on her Bachelor of Science (Kinesiology) at McMaster University, Katie believes that the role of the physiotherapist on a rehabilitation team such as ours at Reactivate is one where they work alongside individuals as an educator, an accountability coach, and a movement trainer to regain and re-establish their functional strength, range of motion, and get them back to movement and active living that is full and pain-free.