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Ten Ways to Stay Physically Active This Winter

Ten Ways to Stay Physically Active This Winter

Winter is here. Ten ways to get your 30 minutes a day, five days a week — and make the most of what Ottawa has to offer through the cold months.

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Snowy Day in Ottawa — 3 Simple Tips When Shoveling Snow

Snowy Day in Ottawa — 3 Simple Tips When Shoveling Snow

Close to 12,000 people a year suffer preventable injuries from shoveling snow. Three tips on technique and pacing to get you through the next 40 cm without hurting your back.

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Do Your Prehab at LiquidGym While Waiting for Surgery

Do Your Prehab at LiquidGym While Waiting for Surgery

Most people find a physiotherapist after surgery. Building strength and mobility beforehand can shorten recovery and take the anxiety out of the wait.

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Are You a Veteran? Come to LiquidGym for Training and Rehab

Are You a Veteran? Come to LiquidGym for Training and Rehab

Kinesiologists in Ontario are recognized service providers under Program of Choice (POC) 12 — Related Health Services. Train at LiquidGym under the POC 12 program.

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Raking Those Leaves… Again!

Raking Those Leaves… Again!

The leaves have changed and the yard work is back. How to rake without paying for it the next morning.

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Have You Considered Vision Therapy at LiquidGym?

Have You Considered Vision Therapy at LiquidGym?

Vision therapy trains the eyes and brain to work together through a series of exercises tailored to each patient — for children reading below grade level, and adults after injury.

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Rent the Game Ready System for Your Recovery

Rent the Game Ready System for Your Recovery

Having hip or knee replacement surgery? Game Ready combines cold and active compression to help you heal faster. Available to rent from LiquidGym.

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34 Videos of Water Exercises You Can Do in Your Home Pool

34 Videos of Water Exercises You Can Do in Your Home Pool

A full library of 34 exercise videos for your own pool, grouped into five categories so you can build a session that suits you.

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Water Exercises You Can Do While at the Cottage

Water Exercises You Can Do While at the Cottage

Take your program to the lake. Thirty-four videos covering exercises you can do off the dock, sorted into five categories.

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What Is Plantar Fasciitis? And How to Fix It

What Is Plantar Fasciitis? And How to Fix It

That sharp heel pain in your first steps of the morning has a name. What causes it, and what actually helps.

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Rent the Game Ready System for Your Recovery

Rent the Game Ready System for Your Recovery

Cold and active compression therapy to support healing after hip or knee replacement surgery, available to rent from the clinic.

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Can Functional Dry Needling Help With Your Rehab?

Can Functional Dry Needling Help With Your Rehab?

A skilled technique using a fine filiform needle to reach muscle and tissue, influencing how the body functions and supporting neuromusculoskeletal treatment.

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Have You Considered Vision Therapy at LiquidGym?

Have You Considered Vision Therapy at LiquidGym?

A tailored programme of visual exercises that trains the eyes and brain to work together — for children, adults and patients recovering from injury.

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Do Your Prehab at LiquidGym While Waiting for Surgery

Do Your Prehab at LiquidGym While Waiting for Surgery

Preparing your body before an operation can shorten the recovery that follows. What prehab involves and why the waiting period matters.

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Don’t Let Falling Get You Down: Falls Prevention Strategies

Don’t Let Falling Get You Down: Falls Prevention Strategies

Between 20 and 30% of Canadians over 65 fall each year, and the fear that follows can make it likelier still. What causes falls, how to make your home safer, and exercises to build strength and balance.

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LiquidGym 10 Year Anniversary

LiquidGym 10 Year Anniversary

Ten years of LiquidGym, marked with cake, flowers and a room full of the patients, staff and partners who built it.

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Bells Corners Community Blood Drive

Bells Corners Community Blood Drive

A little goes a long way. Join us in supporting Canada’s Lifeline at the Jami Omar Mosque on Old Richmond Road.

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Team LiquidGym 2km Alinker Event — Ottawa Race Weekend 2023

Team LiquidGym 2km Alinker Event — Ottawa Race Weekend 2023

Forty-two participants and volunteers rode the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend 2km on Alinkers. What an amazing day.

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Physiotherapy and Joint Replacement Surgery

Physiotherapy and Joint Replacement Surgery

Physiotherapy helps people delay the need for joint replacement, and helps them prepare for and recover from surgery. The evidence, for National Physiotherapy Month.

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Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Stress

Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Stress

A Speaker Series presentation with Susan Anderson, C-IAYT. Movement, breathing techniques, meditation and mudras. No previous yoga experience required.

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In Pain? Use Meds?… Things You Should Know

In Pain? Use Meds?… Things You Should Know

Pain Medications, Naloxone & You — a Speaker Series presentation with pharmacist Ryan Jarratt on opioid overdose risk and safer alternatives.

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Team Events at LiquidGym

Team Events at LiquidGym

A baby shower for Lindsay, a SENS game, a Team Lunch and Learn, and two Banana Awards. A great fun start to the year.

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Don’t Miss Your Next Appointment — Virtual Rehab at LiquidGym

Don’t Miss Your Next Appointment — Virtual Rehab at LiquidGym

Illness, weather, a car that will not start — a session at home is an interactive one, and your initial assessment can be done virtually too.

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Do You Have Long COVID?

Do You Have Long COVID?

At least 10 to 30% of people still have symptoms twelve weeks after an acute infection. What the condition looks like, and how rehabilitation is built around it.

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Happy Birthday LiquidGym — We Are 9 Years Old

Happy Birthday LiquidGym — We Are 9 Years Old

We opened our doors on November 7, 2013. Thank you to everyone who helped us grow into a multi-disciplinary clinic.

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Every Child Matters

Every Child Matters

Our clinic stands on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial.

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We Would Love to Hear From You

We Would Love to Hear From You

Eight years on from our opening day, we would like to hear about your journey with us.

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Team LiquidGym 2km Alinker Event — Ottawa Race Weekend 2022

Team LiquidGym 2km Alinker Event — Ottawa Race Weekend 2022

The team rode the 2km event at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend on Saturday, May 28. What an amazing day.

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The NORMATEC Compression System Can Help Your Injury Recovery

The NORMATEC Compression System Can Help Your Injury Recovery

Progressive compression with customisable settings: how pneumatic medicine relieves soreness, increases circulation and improves mobility.

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Thank You to All Our Patients Who Supported Us These Past Two Years

Thank You to All Our Patients Who Supported Us These Past Two Years

Five weeks closed, then virtual sessions, then a gradual return to full days. Thank you for seeing us through it.

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3 Ways to Self-Monitor Perceived Exertion During Exercise

3 Ways to Self-Monitor Perceived Exertion During Exercise

How hard should you actually be working? The talk test, the Borg scale and heart rate monitoring, explained.

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Is This You on Your Cellphone? Do You Have Text Neck?

Is This You on Your Cellphone? Do You Have Text Neck?

The head weighs 10 to 12 pounds upright, and up to 60 at 60 degrees of flexion. What that does to your neck, and four exercises that help.

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Are You Injured? When to Use Heat vs Ice Therapy

Are You Injured? When to Use Heat vs Ice Therapy

One of the questions we are asked most. What each one does, when to use it, and what to avoid.

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Offload Your Spine, Part II: Land Exercise for Spinal Resilience

Offload Your Spine, Part II: Land Exercise for Spinal Resilience

The TRX system, the sit-to-stand machine and isometrics — building strength and endurance in the muscles that support your spine.

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Offload Your Spine: Aquatic Exercise for Spinal Resilience

Offload Your Spine: Aquatic Exercise for Spinal Resilience

Weightlessness reduces compression of the spine, and water resistance challenges every plane of movement at once.

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Inner Ear Problems, Balance Issues and Dizziness — Could Vestibular Rehabilitation Help?

Inner Ear Problems, Balance Issues and Dizziness — Could Vestibular Rehabilitation Help?

What a vestibular condition is, what rehabilitation involves, who can diagnose and treat it, and what to expect from an assessment.

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What Is a Concussion?

What Is a Concussion?

200,000 a year in Canada, and almost certainly an undercount. The signs, the symptoms, and the five most effective evidence-based treatments.

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Physiotherapy Helps Prevent and Manage Pain

Physiotherapy Helps Prevent and Manage Pain

Chronic pain costs Canada more than cancer, heart disease and HIV combined. Where physiotherapy fits in managing it.

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How to Jazz Up a Dull TRX Workout

How to Jazz Up a Dull TRX Workout

Balance work, cardio and pattern-based sessions — plus what happens when you add a BOSU, a stability ball or balance pods.

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What Are the Newest Treatment Recommendations for Knee Osteoarthritis?

What Are the Newest Treatment Recommendations for Knee Osteoarthritis?

3.9 million Canadians live with a diagnosis. The OARSI guidelines for non-surgical management, and how cartilage stays healthy.

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Reducing Pain and Stiffness While You Work

Reducing Pain and Stiffness While You Work

What poor posture does to your muscles, breathing, joints and circulation — and the stretches and exercises you can do at your desk.

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Hydrotherapy or Aquatic Therapy — Is It for You?

Hydrotherapy or Aquatic Therapy — Is It for You?

Buoyancy, temperature, hydrostatic pressure and drag. Why you can do more in the water than you can on land.

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What Are the New Physical Activity Guidelines? How Much Activity Do You Need?

What Are the New Physical Activity Guidelines? How Much Activity Do You Need?

The WHO recommendations, what counts as activity, and how to start from wherever you are.

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What Is Physiotherapy? And How Can It Help You?

What Is Physiotherapy? And How Can It Help You?

What physiotherapists treat, the strategies they use, and what happens at a first session.

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Alinker Academy — Online Fitness and Training for Alinker Users Worldwide

Alinker Academy — Online Fitness and Training for Alinker Users Worldwide

A partnership with Alinker Inventions Ltd. A subscription-based online program of cardio, strength and agility training, modified yoga and ‘Come Ride With Me’ trail videos.

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CTV News Joins LiquidGym and Ruckify on a Delivery

CTV News Joins LiquidGym and Ruckify on a Delivery

CTV came along on a delivery to see how LiquidGym used Ruckify to adapt the business through the pandemic.

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Alinkers Add Extra Joy — and an Extra Wheel — to The Ottawa Hospital’s Annual Ride

Alinkers Add Extra Joy — and an Extra Wheel — to The Ottawa Hospital’s Annual Ride

Fifty Alinker riders joined 700 cyclists at The Ride, raising $1.07 million for care and cancer research. The first time the walking bikes had taken part. Covered by the Ottawa Citizen.

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CFRA Interview — The Ottawa Hospital Foundation, THE RIDE and the Alinkers

CFRA Interview — The Ottawa Hospital Foundation, THE RIDE and the Alinkers

Karen Snyder and Mary Bolt joined Dahlia Kurtz at CFRA 580 to talk about the Alinker event at The Ride.

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Introduction of NORMATEC at LiquidGym

Introduction of NORMATEC at LiquidGym

The Normatec Recovery System arrives at the clinic — compression therapy to speed recovery after events, injury or surgery.

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CTV Interview with Tim and Karen on the Alinker Event at THE RIDE

CTV Interview with Tim and Karen on the Alinker Event at THE RIDE

Karen Snyder and Tim Kluke, President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation, on CTV Morning Live.

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Ottawa Race Weekend 2km Alinker Event

Ottawa Race Weekend 2km Alinker Event

Over 50 Alinker riders and a crowd of volunteers took on the annual Ottawa Race Weekend. Everyone crossed the finish line.

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Ottawa Cyclist Back on a ‘Walking Bike’ a Decade After a Critical Injury

Ottawa Cyclist Back on a ‘Walking Bike’ a Decade After a Critical Injury

CTV News Ottawa follows Robert Wein, one of five Kanata cyclists struck in 2009, as he trains on an Alinker for the Race Weekend 2km.

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Tornado Survivor Leo Muldoon Gets Back on His Tractor Seat

Tornado Survivor Leo Muldoon Gets Back on His Tractor Seat

CTV News Ottawa on the Dunrobin farmer who rebuilt his strength in the LiquidGym pool after the 2018 tornado — and got the barley in the ground.

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5th Anniversary

5th Anniversary

LiquidGym marked five years in business. The doors first opened to the public on November 7th, 2013.

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The Ottawa Hospital Foundation — THE RIDE

The Ottawa Hospital Foundation — THE RIDE

Official therapy provider once again, supporting over 700 riders through cramps, lactic acid and sore shoulders at Eastern Ontario’s largest fundraising event.

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Lap the Gats

Lap the Gats

LiquidGym sponsored and rode this Parkinson’s Research Consortium fundraiser. Coach Sherry was top rider in her age group; physiotherapist Judith, top climber.

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Ottawa Race Weekend 2km Alinker Event

Ottawa Race Weekend 2km Alinker Event

The first annual 2km race for Alinker riders. For many it was a first chance to cross a finish line and collect a medal.

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Social Night for Veterans

Social Night for Veterans

An evening for veterans to try the underwater treadmills, aqua bikes, endless pool and anti-gravity treadmill — or simply relax in the warm-water therapy pool.

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9th Annual Brain Injury Awareness Day

9th Annual Brain Injury Awareness Day

LiquidGym took part in the awareness day hosted by Vista Centre Brain Injury Services.

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The Walk to Fight Arthritis

The Walk to Fight Arthritis

Supporting the annual walk once again, held at Alumni Park, Carleton University.

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Parkinson’s Education Day

Parkinson’s Education Day

Presentations from Karen Snyder and Sébastien Beaulieu of LiquidGym, Ginette Trottier of Parkinson Canada, and Laurie Bowen of Arts for Life Psychotherapy.

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Instructor Training — Urban Poling

Instructor Training — Urban Poling

LiquidGym hosted instructor training for Urban Poling Nordic Walking.

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Exercise is Medicine Canada

Exercise is Medicine Canada

A learning event hosted at the clinic for Exercise is Medicine Canada, attended by local health professionals.

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Diabetes Education Day

With Karen Snyder of LiquidGym, Wendy Marshall of the Community Diabetes Education Program of Ottawa, and the team from TiredSole Complete Medical Foot Care.

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Pain Management Education Day

Presentations by Dr. Richard Nahas of The Seekers Centre, Sébastien Beaulieu of LiquidGym, and Aaron Stiller, Canadian Sales Manager for AlterG.

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Arthritis Education Day

With Kim Roscoe of the Total Joint Assessment Program at Queensway Carleton Hospital, Karen Snyder and Lindsay Jonkman of LiquidGym, and Sue Gardner Rab of Brace Yourself Ottawa.

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Daytime Ottawa — Arthritis Education

Karen joined host Dylan Black to preview the Arthritis Education event. Video courtesy of Rogers TV and Daytime Ottawa.

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The Ride

LiquidGym ran the on-site triage therapy service as $1.3 million was raised for cancer research.

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Big Bike Event

The team rode the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Big Bike, joined by staff, members, friends and Heart & Stroke volunteers.

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Triathlon Canada National Championships

LiquidGym sponsored the national championships, held in Ottawa for the first time.

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CTV Ottawa Morning Live

LiquidGym and the Heart & Stroke Foundation joined Melissa Lamb to talk about the Big Bike fundraiser and the Bells Corners Triathlon Chase.

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7th Annual Walk to Fight Arthritis

Proud to be a local sponsor of the seventh annual walk.

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Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating Disease with Diet

LiquidGym took part in the sold-out session with Dr. Michael Greger.

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City View Curling Club Grand Opening

City View Curling Club Grand Opening

LiquidGym is title sponsor of the score board for the club’s third ice surface.

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Daytime Ottawa — The LiquidGym Advantage

Karen Snyder returned to Daytime Ottawa with Dylan Black and Roula Thomas to talk 3,000 square feet of pools, equipment and the new AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill.

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National Dietitians Day

Karen Snyder presented to the Eastern Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Dietitians’ Association.

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Underwater Duathlon

Underwater Duathlon

Canada’s first Underwater Duathlon, hosted with the Heart and Stroke Foundation on the HydroWorx treadmills and Hydrorider aqua bikes. Over $4,000 raised.

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Pool and Spa Marketing Magazine

A feature on how LiquidGym was built, in the October 2014 issue.

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Ontario Society for Health and Fitness Professional Development Day

Karen Snyder presented on using underwater treadmills and bikes for training and therapy.

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RubyTFO — L’hydro-entraînement

LiquidGym featured on Ruby TFO, French-language television.

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TV Rogers — LiquidGym, un entraînement sous l’eau!

LiquidGym featured on Rogers French-language television.

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CTV Ottawa — Regional Contact

CTV Ottawa — Regional Contact

LiquidGym featured on Regional Contact.

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CTV Ottawa — LiquidGym: An Underwater Workout

LiquidGym featured on CTV Ottawa with Carolyn Waldo.

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Ottawa Citizen — In the Tank

LiquidGym featured in the Ottawa Citizen Lifestyle section.

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CBC News — LiquidGym Brings Unique ‘Hydrotherapy’ to Ottawa

LiquidGym featured on CBC News shortly after opening.

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Ottawa Citizen — H2O: Hydrotherapy for Older Adults

Ottawa Citizen — H2O: Hydrotherapy for Older Adults

LiquidGym featured in the Ottawa Citizen on hydrotherapy for older adults.

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