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Cathy Arnold and Sarah Oosman What’s the issue? Over the next 20 years, Canada’s population of adults over the age of 65 years is expected to rise by 68% reaching 10.4 million by 2037 with the number of adults 75 years and older doubling in most provinces, including Saskatchewan (Infographic: Ca...

In the fall of 2014, I was asked to visit a woman (let’s call her Mary) at CareLife Fleetwood in Surrey. A diabetic, Mary had recently undergone double mid-thigh amputations.  She desperately wanted to increase her strength, lose weight, and regain some independence. However, her physical limitat...

Visualize a tall, elderly, frail man in the first few days of his ICU stay, and on a ventilator.  He is awake and alert. Now add large headphones connected to an MP3 player and his legs in straps with an in-bed bicycle. Now think about how this would look for 30 minutes.  At the end of 30 minutes...

Chantal Lauzon, PT
  Have you booked your weekend of June 27-29, 2019 yet? We have… We are the Program Planning Committee for Forum 2019.   Forum 2019 will be held in Charlottetown, PEI June 27-29, 2019 and you don’t want to miss it! It will be a platform for open dialogue, discussion and e...

This is part two of a post about the negative effects of immobility and one physiotherapist’s invention and solution. Read part one here. In the previous post, I shared how my community physiotherapy practice amongst retirement facilities in Surrey enlightened me to a gap in senior health care. W...