Gaudet Rehab

Gaudet Rehab • Bringing the care of professional sport to the private sector 📈
• Owner,
• High Performance Rehab Consultant | Educator | Speaker

Travis graduated with a Masters of Physiotherapy from Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S. in 2013 as well as a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB in 2011. He received his Diploma of Advanced Manual and Manipulative Therapy from the Orthopaedic Division in 2018. He is a Fellow with the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapists (FCAMPT) and a mentor with the Orthopedic Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. Travis also received his Gunn Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS) through the University of British Columbia, Acupuncture Certification through the Acupuncture Foundation of Canada, and Diagnostic Imaging Certification through University of Alberta which allows him to order Xrays, MSK Ultrasounds and MRI’s when appropriate. Originally from Charlottetown, PEI, he is on Physiotherapy Alberta’s restricted activity roster for both spinal manipulation and dry needing. He holds secondary certifications in Stretch to Win - Fascial Stretch Therapy®, Mobilisation of the Myofascial System (MMS) / Structural Myofascial Therapy (SFMT®), Mulligan Concepts, Neurological Proprioceptive Kinesio-Taping, and Custom Knee Bracing. His clinical philosophy is not only rooted in rehabilitation, but also in future injury prevention, by combining manual therapy, needling techniques, myofascial mobilisations, neural container mobility, and motor control; correlating it with analysis of obtained objective data, all with the ultimate goal of empowering the patient with knowledge to continue to assist them on a road to functional and pain-free lifestyle.

04/10/2026

Some distal options from the toolbox to ensure the rearfoot and midfoot can act as key absorbers and a lever to forefoot propulsion, allowing the athlete an ability to bridge to higher rates of energy storage/release and get into the shapes necessary to link together efficient stretch shortening cycles. 🧰 🐇

At month 5, we’ve typically cycled multiple blocks of max strength work, and are starting to frame the question, can the...
04/01/2026

At month 5, we’ve typically cycled multiple blocks of max strength work, and are starting to frame the question, can they produce force in the right direction, in the amount of time

The waveform answers that, and depending on the time frame alloted by their sports high intensity actions, we can start to select tests that fit the action (as opposed to working in protocols). 

You’ll see it early:
– Rapid impact spikes
– Passive landings
– Long ground contact times
– Lost Impulse
– Poor transition from eccentric → concentric

We test.
We monitor.
We adjust.

Whether you select a CMJ, a LCMJ at 30/60% BW, or a DJ, you’re starting to tease out different points of the force velocity curve. 

If the strategy improves and waveform analysis reveals competency, then we progress.

If not, we repeat the stimulus, and work harder to chase down those adaptations. 

Because progression is often adaptation based. 

Rehab doesn’t fail from lack of exercises.
It fails from lack of interpretation.

Don’t miss the signal.

We can create change quickly.Mobility improves.Pain reduces.Positions clean up.But sport lives in constraints.In percept...
03/30/2026

We can create change quickly.

Mobility improves.
Pain reduces.
Positions clean up.

But sport lives in constraints.
In perception.
In multi-step decision making.
In chaos.

So while the first question we strive to answer when we enter practice is “Can We Change It?”

As time goes on, it’s less about what changed…

And more about what actually shows up for our client when the task speeds up, when multi-step processing exists, when anticipation’s at play, when vision is disrupted, or more importantly, when they live in a scenario where they can’t pull on solution A (have they prepped solutions B-Z).

If force is created too slowly…
If the solution depends on a cue…
If the movement breaks down when perception is layered in…

Then the change may not mean what we think it means. And we may not be as good as we think we are. 

That doesn’t make the intervention wrong, but when the dust settles, they are paying for...The Outcome. 

This simply means the work isn’t finished.

Over time, the goal shifts:

Not just to create change.
But to see if it holds.
Under pressure.
At speed.
In context.

Because that’s the environment the athlete returns to.

So when something improves in the clinic…How are you checking that it shows up where it matters?

Views from the floor in Charlottetown 📸
03/27/2026

Views from the floor in Charlottetown 📸

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the injury.It’s losing the team.The role.The identity.Injury and non-selection create t...
03/26/2026

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the injury.

It’s losing the team.
The role.
The identity.

Injury and non-selection create the same disruption:

Identity fracture.
Confidence instability.
Family-system stress 

Withdrawal isn’t apathy.
Fluctuating effort isn’t laziness.

Often, it’s overload.
Research shows psychological readiness predicts return-to-sport outcomes more than clearance alone 

Cleared ≠ prepared.

On March 30 we’re covering:
• How parents can support their young athlete
• Emotions and performing through setbacks. 
• Pressure vs support
• How parent anxiety quietly shapes recovery

March 30 | 7:30pm MST | Free

Comment SUPPORT for details.

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03/23/2026

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03/20/2026

Early change of direction work should start with intent.

If athletes can’t control the positions that govern deceleration,
speed into a cut only magnifies the problem.

Here are 4 early drills we use to build it.

1. Tib Bar Raises
The tibialis anterior and anterior shank are massively influential during Phase 2–3 of deceleration.

2. COD Isometric Holds
A safe position to build awareness of range, angles, and trunk lean.

3. Tall → Shorts
Efficient deceleration shouldn’t rely on excessive trunk collapse.
Tall Shorts teaches athletes to manage braking while maintaining posture.
This helps set up the penultimate and anti-penultimate steps before the final plant.

4. Hip Hitches
Lateral motor control drives trunk fluidity.
If the pelvis can’t control the frontal plane,
the final foot contact becomes unstable.

Control the positions.

03/18/2026

Some Wednesday Coach’s Eye.

Two jumps.
A and B.

If I asked you which one shows the deeper countermovement, which are you choosing?

Now a second question.

Which jump shows the higher eccentric peak velocity?

03/16/2026

Reactive strength starts at the foot and ankle.

If stiffness is low, the stretch-shortening cycle slows down. Contact time rises. Force leaks.

Early work isn’t about jumping higher.
It’s about clean elastic contacts.

1️⃣ Assisted Pogos
Reduces bodyweight so athletes can feel shorter contact times.

2️⃣ Lateral Pogos
Adds frontal plane stiffness.

3️⃣ Supported Pogos (Trunk Influence)
Manipulate trunk position and center of mass.

4️⃣ Alternating Pogos
Trains leg switch efficiency.
Now the system must recycle force while coordinating limb exchange.

Better stiffness → shorter contact times → higher rates of force expression.

03/13/2026

8 Non-Weightbearing Drills That Help Knee Clients Win the First 2 Weeks

Early rehab is about restoring signal to the system.

Yes, AMI sets in and the quads can atrophy.
But other things atrophy as well:

🎯 Comfort in shapes/ranges that tie to the key actions of sport.
🎯 Pattern recognition, anticipation, distraction, cancellation and multi-step processing

Pain shuts things down.
Swelling blunts output.
Recruitment and Decision Making opportunities plummet.

Your job in week 1–2 is simple:
Calm Knee. Restore contraction. Restore control. 
But proceed with the end in mind. This is the difference between rehab, and accelerated rehab, and can not only cut weeks/months off a return, but can be a key lever and the difference between return to sport, and return to performance.

Here are 8 drills that move the needle early and help my athletes if they can’t weightbear win the first 2 weeks.

February Round Up. In person and Online clients putting in work, mad quad gainz, and a quick rip to Redbull in LA. It’s ...
03/05/2026

February Round Up.

In person and Online clients putting in work, mad quad gainz, and a quick rip to Redbull in LA.

It’s good to be back on the tools 🛠️🪛⚔️

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