Vanessa Lee is a Physiotherapist in Toronto, Canada focusing on neuro patients. But she is a woman of may talents with a great sense of humor. In this conversation, we cover everything including her current situation as a physiotherapist during the pandemic, to her time commentating at the Archery World Championships and as well we end by talking about mental health and how to deal with these tough time.

 I hope you enjoy.

On this podcast, we talk about how to stay active and healthy while at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is very important to ensure your physical and mental well being while at home and on this show Juliana Bergin talks about different methods and strategies to achieve this goal. She gives great insight into home exercises as well as shares her background as a physiotherapist. Hope you enjoy. 

We are finally back with a new episode. In this episode, Sybille and Peter chat about the current state of physiotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. We talk about the challenges currently faced by businesses and practitioners, as well as how physiotherapists are working with their essential clients. Hope you enjoy. 

On today's podcast we talk about the different ways people pay for Physiotherapy services in Ontario. We cover payment options such as private payment, extended health care, OHIP, WSIB, and FSCO. We also chat about what people get when they request services from a Physiotherapist. It is the clients responsibility to ensure they paying for what they get. Too often do people pay for a full physiotherapist session when they may be being treated by a PTA or Kinesiologist. We hope enjoy this weeks podcast.

The Physio Podcast is presented by First Class Rehab. You can learn more about First Class Rehab at www.firstclassrehab.com.

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The Physio Podcast is hosted by Peter Bergin and Sybille Bergin.

On this episode of the podcast we do a case study about one of Sybille’s patients who has Alzheimer’s. Physiotherapy for Alzheimer’s patients must be tailored very specifically to their short term needs which is often not the case with many physiotherapy patients. This podcast gives very good insight into the techniques and approaches a physiotherapist could use while treating a patient with a condition such as Alzheimer’s. 

On this podcast we chat about fall prevention. Falls are a major issue in senior communities and it leads to many injuries. Every single person has the ability to decrease the risk falling. This is done by taking small steps to improving your home and your physical health. We cover all of these topics on today's podcast. We hope you enjoy.

By: First Class Rehab

Hosts: Peter Bergin and Sybille Bergin

On today's podcast we meet Vanessa Lee. Vanessa has been a friend for many years and it was great to sit down and chat about what Vanessa has been up to recently. We talk about her career as a Physiotherapist and her career as a professional Archer including her time with Team Canada. She talks about the basics of archery and how she got into the sport. Her combined skills give her very specific knowledge that not many people possess. She currently posts on Instagram giving her archery followers tips on how to prevent injuries and properly strengthen their body for archery. You can find her at https://www.instagram.com/archeryrehab/. Make sure to follower her she makes some amazing content. 

 Today we meet Chris who is one of our clients at First Class Rehab. We have been working with Chris for a while now and he has some great thoughts on how physiotherapy has affected his life along with what he still wants to achieve. We chat about a couple of the struggles Chris has gone through throughout his rehabilitation and that he wants to work towards becoming more independent along with improving his strength. We want to thank Chris for doing this with us as we had a lot of fun working on a different format for the podcast. 

On this weeks episode of The Physio Podcast we talk about posture. How posture is often misunderstood and how it affects peoples lives. Sybille and I talk about why people have bad posture at work and how they might be able to fix this problem. We cover many topics including exercises you can use to improve your posture as well as why good posture is very important while exercising.

To learn more about Sybille's physiotherapy experience make sure to listen to our first episode.

Posture is something that can cause many different problems within one's body. Working on your posture daily can have a lot of long term benefits in your life.

Below is a list of topics we covered in the podcast, feel free to skip to a topic at the specific time point. 

1. 0:30.760 - Overview of posture and how it is often misunderstood.

2. 2:44.187 - How bad posture negatively affects peoples lives.

3. 3:55.099 - Why people have bad posture while sitting and how you can fix this problem?

4.  8:33.410- Specific example of proper body alignment.

5.  13:50.000- How to overcome bad posture.

6.  17:08.807- Exercises people should do outside of the workplace to improve posture.

7. 21:03.623 - What is base of support?

8. 23:08.139 - Is sitting on a Bosu ball or Physioball good for posture? Ways you can use these to strengthen your body to create better posture.

9. 27:53.443 - How does bad posture affect the body.

10. 31:17.023 - Good posture during exercise – deadlifts, using machines, and using less weight to obtain better posture

The Physio Podcast is presented by First Class Rehab. You can call into the podcast and leave a question, we will be sure to answer the questions on upcoming episodes. You can call us at  705-315-1195 .