New Physiotherapy Clinic!

Brent Stevenson and myself (Harry Toor) are opening another Envision Physiotherapy clinic at the “Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Centre” at Oak & 12th in Vancouver, BC.

The Diamond Health Centre is a world class medical facility that brings together Vancouver General Hospital’s outpatient care services – including specialty clinics, along with medical education, physician teaching clinics and research – at one site. We will be affiliated with the doctors of West Coast Family Practice, which include Dr. G. Ayling, Dr L. Bootsman, Dr. A. Harpur, Dr. C. Harvey and Dr. M. Sweeny. West Coast Family Practice and ourselves, Envision Physiotherapy, were fortunate enough to be the only non VGH practitioners invited into this amazing facility.


So what is special about our approach with Envision Physiotherapy?

Envision is a unique One-on-One Physiotherapy service, with the focus on quality of care. Appointments will be 30 or 60 minutes long in a private treatment rooms with a highly trained physiotherapist. Assessments are extremely detailed and specific to the client’s pain, profession or sport. Treatments consist of manual therapy to first correct joint alignment and muscle imbalances, then specific muscle control exercises are prescribed to prevent any re-occurrences and to optimize their sport performance.

So how can you reach us at this new clinic?


Our receptionist, Leah is available M-F at (604)737-0799 to take your call. The clinic is located on the 3rd floor of the Diamond Health Centre at 2775 Laurel St. There is ample underground pay parking, as well as meter parking on the street, but keep in mind the streets are often quite busy.

I’ll be at the new clinic Tues/Thurs, Brent will be there Weds/Fri and we will share Mondays. To learn more about the clinic, go to our Envision Physiotherapy website.

We open our doors March 3rd, 2008!

What Happened to Treloar Physiotherapy?

For those of you who don't know, Treloar Physiotherapy is one of the larger, well respected clinics in Vancouver. Where is Treloar Physiotherapy? They are at 686 Broadway, the same building as the (now infamous) Taco Del Mar. The recent bomb blast at this business has affected the overall condition of the building so for the time being, Treloar physiotherapists are not able to function out of their current location. Instead, many neighboring physiotherapy clinics have arranged for some of Treloar's physios work within their offices.

Both the clinics I practice out of (West 4th & Envision) have made such arrangements with Treloar, even though we have been extremely busy. One patient asked me, "Isn't that weird? Aren't they your competition?". I never thought of it like that because what many people don't realize is that we are a fairly close knit group. All physios with similar expertise, take the same courses, atted the same conferences, or work at the same sporting events. It is very unlikely that any like therapists would let their colleagues suffer at mercy of some uncontrollable events. It's nice to be part of a profession that is not only concerned with helping our clients, but to helping our professional community as well.

Harry

New Practice!

Finally,

after 9 years of work as a physiotherapist, I'm taking the plunge and opening a new practice with fellow physiotherapist, Brent Stevenson. We are opening another branch of his Envision Physiotherapy Clinic at the Diamond Health Center on Oak & 12th in Vancouver BC. We will be working at this world class health center with the doctors of Westcoast Family Practice, of whom I will introduce to you later.

Brent and I are on the same page with regards to our approach to physical therapy. We are both passionate about our profession, extremely focused on continuing education, and we both opt for the one-on-one treatment approach. We will spend the next week ironing out the details, which I will share with you next week. The clinic will be up and running by March 3rd, 2008.

Harry