Registered Physiotherapist and Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist
Jennifer Simic Bogler (she/her), HBA (Kin) MScPT
jenphysio@yellowgazeboclinic.com
Jennifer is a registered physiotherapist who holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from York University and a master’s degree in physical therapy from the University of Toronto.
With training in pelvic floor physiotherapy, and clinical experience that spans inpatient general medicine and trauma units, neurological paediatrics, orthopaedic private practice, and onsite work with professional dancers at the National Ballet of Canada, Jen offers a well-rounded working knowledge of current, evidence-based, therapeutic guidelines for wide-ranging populations and conditions.
Jennifer believes in exercise/movement’s ability to achieve therapeutic effects physically, but also on a social and personal level. She appreciates the challenges and variety of conditions that can be addressed in private practice and embraces opportunities to empower her clients to achieve their goals through education, active rehabilitation and self-management techniques, and injury prevention.
What is physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is the practice of improving your quality of life by promoting optimal mobility and overall health and well-being. Physiotherapy can also help to prevent illness and disease, manage acute and chronic conditions, and help you to rehabilitate from injury or the effects of disease or disability. It can also can help create for you maintenance plans that will prevent re-occurrence or re-injury. Physiotherapy has its basis in the movement sciences, and aims to enhance or restore the function of your entire body. One who practices physiotherapy is known as a physiotherapist.
How does a physiotherapist work?
After taking an initial health-history with you, your physiotherapist will also likely assess you via some physical tests or measures, such as your range of motion or flexibility. Then, you will be provided with a reasonable diagnosis, and together you can explore the various treatment methods and thereby devise an appropriate plan for treatment.
During the course of your treatment, your physiotherapist may incorporate massage, joint mobilization, personalized exercise regimens, and any other number of modalities aimed at improving your healing time and enhancing your functional mobility. You will also likely be given advice in regards to lifestyle changes that you can make to facilitate your treatment, e.g. mitigating work or home stressors that contribute to your main complaints. While many physiotherapists prefer to use a variety of machines in their practice, we at Yellow Gazebo feel that hands-on treatment is not only more enjoyable for you, the patient, but is also more effective in producing lasting results.
What can physiotherapy treat?
You can be helped with any or all of the following:
- sprains and strains
- joint injury or disability
- difficulty walking
- plantar fasciitis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- osteoarthritis
- back pain
- neck pain
- joint pain
- athletic injury
- sciatica
