AAP Member
Lorrie is a clinical orthopaedic and sport physiotherapist who enjoys assisting and empowering people to reach their maximal physical potential, be that recovery from injury or optimizing athletic performance. Lorrie sees clients in the private community and also consults for the Canadian Sport Center Calgary, seeing our wonderful Canadian athletes. She utilizes manual therapy including manipulation, Gunn IMS, real time ultrasound muscle re-education, yoga and exercises to assist her clients.
Lorrie believes strongly in the role of education for clients and post graduate education for physiotherapists and medical physicians. She acts on this belief by being a physiotherapy mentor, senior educator and examiner for the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Orthopaedic Division. She is a senior instructor for the UBC GunnIMS dry needling assessment and treatment program. She has been actively involved in international standards of education for physiotherapists by being part of a committee of the International Federation of Orthopaedic Physiotherapists (IFOMPT) which is a subdivision of the World Congress of Physiotherapy (WCPT ) and therefore The World Health Organization (WHO).
Lorrie holds a Diploma of Advanced Orthopaedic Manual and Manipulative Physiotherapy from the Orthopaedic Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Therapists. She held a Certificate in Sports Physiotherapy from Sports Physiotherapy Canada and a Certificate of Medical Acupuncture from the University of Alberta.
Calgary, AB, Canada