Five Lessons I've Learned Building, Managing and Growing a PT Tech Startup
July 21, 2016
I am a physiotherapist and the co-founder of healthSwapp, which is like YouTube for home exercise prescription. Outside of my clinical work and my company, I’m a swimmer, rock climber and backcountry camper.
Over the past year and a half of building my company, I‘ve come to realize that many of ...
The entrepreneurial wheel: tips for operating a well-rounded physiotherapy business
September 28, 2017
In the five years of operating a physiotherapy business, I have learned that there are seven important segments to running a smooth-operating company. I like to use the metaphor of a wheel, because if any one of these segments is not well developed or properly inflated, your wheel will lurch alon...
She Started with a Car and a Vision: Introducing the 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year
January 2, 2018
In 2015 when Natasha Wilch’s husband was transferred to Nanaimo, BC, she needed a job. In a town where she knew nobody, the physiotherapist made the decision to start Symphony Rehabilitation. “It [started out as] just me, my massage table and my car.”
A car and a vision
Even though she start...
Don’t sit still: the negative effects of immobility
January 17, 2017
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...
Biking…in bed? How I get seniors moving
January 19, 2017
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...