Shayla is an orthopedic physiotherapist and a certified IMS and Acupuncture practitioner.
Her extensive experience ranges from caring for the everyday aches and pains of North Islanders to working with elite athletes and sports injuries in Whistler and Squamish.
Shayla loves being a physio because it combines her love of problem-solving with a helping profession.
She provides an inclusive and body-positive space for clients to understand their bodies and experience health, wellness, and pain-free movement. She likes how physiotherapy can help people realize that their hip issue is actually a foot issue, and how rebalancing the body overall can have profound effects.
Shayla specializes in IMS (intramuscular stimulation) and manual therapy (hands-on techniques for muscles, joints, tendons, and ligaments). Her treatments also include movement screening and analysis, corrective exercise, taping/bracing, and education.
In her spare time she loves mountain biking, yoga, laughing, and unplanned adventures.
Advanced Certifications & Training:
* Trigger Point Dry Needling (Functional Integrative Rehabilitation Education)
* Functional Dry Needling / IMS (Kinetacore)
* Certificate in Anatomical Acupuncture (Acupuncture Foundation of Canada)
* Advanced Lumbo-pelvic Management (Advanced Physical Therapy Education Institute)
* Cervical Whiplash Injuries (Advanced Physical Therapy Education Institute)
* Shoulder & Rotator Cuff Related Pain (Advanced Physical Therapy Education Institute)
* Spinal Thrust Manipulation (Modern Manual Therapy)
* Lower Quadrant Manual Therapy (Modern Manual Therapy)
* Upper Quadrant Manual Therapy (Modern Manual Therapy)
* Cervical & Thoracic Manual Therapy (Dr. Robert Boyles, University of Puget Sound)
* Orthopaedic Division of Canadian Physical Therapy Association, Level 1
* Manual Therapy for the Hip (Columbia Integrated Health Centre)
* Soft Tissue Techniques Workshop (City Sports Physiotherapy)
* Foot & Ankle Workshop (Treloar Physiotherapy)
* K-taping Workshop (K-Tape)
* Co-Active Coach Training (Coaches Training Institute)