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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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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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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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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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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The leaves have changed and the yard work is back. How to rake without paying for it the next morning.
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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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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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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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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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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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Cold and active compression therapy to support healing after hip or knee replacement surgery, available to rent from the clinic.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Forty-two participants and volunteers rode the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend 2km on Alinkers. What an amazing day.
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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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A Speaker Series presentation with Susan Anderson, C-IAYT. Movement, breathing techniques, meditation and mudras. No previous yoga experience required.
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Pain Medications, Naloxone & You — a Speaker Series presentation with pharmacist Ryan Jarratt on opioid overdose risk and safer alternatives.
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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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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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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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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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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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Eight years on from our opening day, we would like to hear about your journey with us.
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The team rode the 2km event at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend on Saturday, May 28. What an amazing day.
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Progressive compression with customisable settings: how pneumatic medicine relieves soreness, increases circulation and improves mobility.
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Five weeks closed, then virtual sessions, then a gradual return to full days. Thank you for seeing us through it.
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How hard should you actually be working? The talk test, the Borg scale and heart rate monitoring, explained.
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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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One of the questions we are asked most. What each one does, when to use it, and what to avoid.
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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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Weightlessness reduces compression of the spine, and water resistance challenges every plane of movement at once.
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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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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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Chronic pain costs Canada more than cancer, heart disease and HIV combined. Where physiotherapy fits in managing it.
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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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3.9 million Canadians live with a diagnosis. The OARSI guidelines for non-surgical management, and how cartilage stays healthy.
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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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Buoyancy, temperature, hydrostatic pressure and drag. Why you can do more in the water than you can on land.
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The WHO recommendations, what counts as activity, and how to start from wherever you are.
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What physiotherapists treat, the strategies they use, and what happens at a first session.
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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 came along on a delivery to see how LiquidGym used Ruckify to adapt the business through the pandemic.
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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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Karen Snyder and Mary Bolt joined Dahlia Kurtz at CFRA 580 to talk about the Alinker event at The Ride.
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The Normatec Recovery System arrives at the clinic — compression therapy to speed recovery after events, injury or surgery.
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Karen Snyder and Tim Kluke, President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation, on CTV Morning Live.
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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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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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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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LiquidGym marked five years in business. The doors first opened to the public on November 7th, 2013.
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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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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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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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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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LiquidGym took part in the awareness day hosted by Vista Centre Brain Injury Services.
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Supporting the annual walk once again, held at Alumni Park, Carleton University.
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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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LiquidGym hosted instructor training for Urban Poling Nordic Walking.
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A learning event hosted at the clinic for Exercise is Medicine Canada, attended by local health professionals.
Read the post →With Karen Snyder of LiquidGym, Wendy Marshall of the Community Diabetes Education Program of Ottawa, and the team from TiredSole Complete Medical Foot Care.
Read the post →Presentations by Dr. Richard Nahas of The Seekers Centre, Sébastien Beaulieu of LiquidGym, and Aaron Stiller, Canadian Sales Manager for AlterG.
Read the post →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.
Read the post →Karen joined host Dylan Black to preview the Arthritis Education event. Video courtesy of Rogers TV and Daytime Ottawa.
Read the post →LiquidGym ran the on-site triage therapy service as $1.3 million was raised for cancer research.
Read the post →The team rode the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Big Bike, joined by staff, members, friends and Heart & Stroke volunteers.
Read the post →LiquidGym sponsored the national championships, held in Ottawa for the first time.
Read the post →LiquidGym and the Heart & Stroke Foundation joined Melissa Lamb to talk about the Big Bike fundraiser and the Bells Corners Triathlon Chase.
Read the post →Proud to be a local sponsor of the seventh annual walk.
Read the post →LiquidGym took part in the sold-out session with Dr. Michael Greger.
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LiquidGym is title sponsor of the score board for the club’s third ice surface.
Read the post →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.
Read the post →Karen Snyder presented to the Eastern Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Dietitians’ Association.
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Canada’s first Underwater Duathlon, hosted with the Heart and Stroke Foundation on the HydroWorx treadmills and Hydrorider aqua bikes. Over $4,000 raised.
Read the post →A feature on how LiquidGym was built, in the October 2014 issue.
Read the post →Karen Snyder presented on using underwater treadmills and bikes for training and therapy.
Read the post →LiquidGym featured on Ruby TFO, French-language television.
Read the post →LiquidGym featured on Rogers French-language television.
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LiquidGym featured on Regional Contact.
Read the post →LiquidGym featured on CTV Ottawa with Carolyn Waldo.
Read the post →LiquidGym featured in the Ottawa Citizen Lifestyle section.
Read the post →LiquidGym featured on CBC News shortly after opening.
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LiquidGym featured in the Ottawa Citizen on hydrotherapy for older adults.
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