Stephanie Skoreyko-Physiotherapist

Stephanie Skoreyko-Physiotherapist I am a Physiotherapist, based out of Active Care Health, downtown Kelowna, BC. I provide 75-min 1-on-1 initial assessments, and 45-min 1-on-1 follow-up visits.

05/07/2026

Kiddos are the best. Unbreakable spirit.

I’m trying to love the process of getting back to racing fitness.. trying not to rush it, enjoying the pain.

I feel impatient at times, but honestly just so thrilled to be out there, running with my kiddos and getting back to my interval sessions.

Doing intervals makes me feel purposeful. Having a race on the horizon isn’t necessary, but really ups the ante. Was talking to a client today about competing. He doesn’t even feel the need to complete the race, just signing up for it and doing the training is bringing him so much satisfaction.

That is loving the process to the extreme!

05/01/2026

Progress with my knee! No sensation at all, on my run to work today.

How did I have such sudden significant progress?

To answer, I had to ask what makes Physio successful?

A good hands-on session can certainly help push the needle forward for an athlete in need, but truly I believe good PT is CAREFUL CONSIDERATION of all aspects of what the client is experiencing, and CAREFUL selection of the tools that will best help them.

I have been a physio for over 10 years, and I have had many frustrations and made many mistakes with my own injuries, as well as clients.

Looking for answers, I have gone to therapy to name the key ones.

Over the past few days, reflecting that I wasn’t having the progress I hoped for, I did a careful audit of my symptoms and triggers, trying to be as objective as possible. I was able to come up with a better working hypothesis and plan for myself.

My knee issue, which is really a back issue, I believe, has also been causing the issues with my Achilles. I just had to have nearly constant back and leg discomfort, that clearly radiates into my R heel to figure it out!

My working hypothesis is that a sudden increase in the sensitivity of my spine to compression (deadlift driven), has made running more triggering for my lumbar nerve roots.

Going back to McGill protocol for how to best stabilize the spine with the lowest levels of compression (latissimus), and also trying things I really didn’t think would work (deadhangs) with McGill Park Bench traction, has really helped me turn the corner.

Thanks to God.

04/30/2026

I stayed up late and did some hard thinking, and planning last night.

I decided to stop hoping I would feel better in the morning, and just accept. I have been waking up feeling pretty wrecked for a while.

But, at the very moment of acceptance of where Im at, God, merciful as he is, blessed me with good sleep.

I have taped my mouth during the night on and off for years. I have suggested it to countless clients.. and some are willing to do it and some are not. It is a bit of a pain, but I know when I am stressed I tend to revert to mouth breathing. I have been convinced that my fatigue was largely due to low iron and my sleep interrupted because I sleep with my two-year-old daughter. Well, I finally got back around to taping my mouth shut last night, and I slept through the night till 620am. I did not wake with a sore jaw from clenching, as I have for what may be months. And mercifully, I feel normal today. Again, I feel hopeful.

Sometimes you gotta go back to basics. Go back to what you know has worked in the past.

I hadn’t climbed in shoes, or on a rope for months, until today. Another effort to try to let my achilles settle down. ...
04/24/2026

I hadn’t climbed in shoes, or on a rope for months, until today.

Another effort to try to let my achilles settle down. Another by product of my running obsession.

Today, this short pre-work session brought me such joy! I cut an old pair of shoes to accommodate the sensitive achilles, and did some hard climbs on the ropes!

I refuse to let these other activities that give me so much joy, die. I am a recreational runner who strives to be elite, and to help others in their similar journey.

Balance and variety is important to me. If I was contending for the top three at major marathons, it would be a different story.

I have a family. I am a diverse person. I don’t want to let myself be a slave to running goals.

How do I go forward in sport given this? I’m contemplating….

What is your philosophy?

04/22/2026

Things are feeling more and more as they should ❤️❤️❤️.

The world feels right to me when I am out and about with my kids, running around town and having different adventures with them. Thankfully my IT band is resolving quite quickly.

I ran into an athlete I coach just before I took this picture, and I was so happy to share with her that perspective is everything. Sometimes you need an injury to show you what is important.

Now, the hard work is figuring out what I’ve been contemplating…

When you feel off, but the numbers, all tell you that you are going great, you are getting faster, and you are recovering well, how do you make the hard decision to take some time off?

Because if you feel off for long enough, in my experience, and you force it, you will end up injured or sick. Intuitively, I knew it with this injury, and yet I forged on.

Is it a 0 to 10 scale that you rate each day or day on and you just don’t train hard if it’s not above a 6/10.

I know I need a metric, because I know myself, and I know many runners who, basically don’t want to stop the forward progression until we are forced to.

What qualitative measures do you use? How can we help ourselves trust that intuition??

Coaches, athletes, please share!!

04/07/2026

“Omission of action.” Or A CALL TO ACTION.

A struggling client shared this quote with me years ago. I think of it in tough times.

In this season, I need to have grace with myself. I know I need rest. I need to lose before I can gain again.

That doesn’t mean slump into depression.

It means I need to make a plan; to learn from my mistakes and rebuild in a smarter, more sustainable way.

04/05/2026

I tried a run this morning, was at 9K and had very little sensation in my knee or anywhere, felt great..! I stopped to do some back stretches, and when I got up, my knee seized!

I have faith, all things are possible with God. A break is in order, my Achilles, which have been an issue for 7 months will finally have a chance to fully resolve as well.

I have learned that the strength training I was doing, was clearly progressed too aggressively.

I am looking forward to rebuilding and working through these issues. The biggest blessing is always how much I learned, and how I can further help my clients with similar issues!

04/05/2026

Nearly everytime I have an injury or setback, my experience doing PT makes me so incredibly grateful and in awe of what good rehab can do!

After a week of troubleshooting, actually feeling worse, not better, laying off the running, I went back to the drawing board this morning.

To answer the question of what I was missing, I revisited some of my old favourite podcasts in the rehab world, BJSM (with ) and Restoring human movement with Seb Gonzales.

Before, when I had IT Band syndrome, I knew a big component was from my low back, but it was less obvious. This time I had some tingling and significant tightness and discomfort along my entire L5/S1 distribution on the irritable R ITB side, and for a month I have been having not only low back stiffness in the morning (which I should add is not normal, and you should get checked out if you have this), but also recurring calf strains. I was doing cross training, very little running, core, nerve, flossing, and every combination of release and activate I could think of this past week, and I told my husband this morning, I was undeniably worse.

Every time I hinged, which a mother does about 2000 times a day, I could feel it in my knee. Also, a dead giveaway it was coming from the low back.

What I missed, that my fellow PT‘s podcasts reminded me of were repeated motions of the low back, and uphill treadmill running!

By the end of my training session this afternoon, just doing repeated motions and a bit of the uphill treadmill running, the relief in my low back and along the entire distribution of the nerves from L5-S1 was significant! I did a little jog this afternoon with my little one in the stroller even, and had basically no sensation in the knee!

Unbelievable!!

I will not underestimate the likelihood of low back involvement with IT band syndrome again!! And certainly, I hope I don’t forget about repeated motions of the lumbar spine again!

04/02/2026

In other words, “When life gives you lemons, paint that s$&t Gold.”

My Mother taught me to always “Choose joy,” which, although I fail miserably at, I still aspire to! She is my best inspiration. They say you get your endurance from your maternal Grandma, but maybe it’s also the ability to endure. A learned characteristic. I come from a line of women who have inspired me to step into the fire, never give up, and always, always endure.

Things aren’t going as I would like, having some body things creep up that are more than niggles.

I have hope always! I knew I needed a rest, and so now I am choosing a cross training week. And I’m choosing Joy.

Who knows, maybe I’ll come off the rest and send a 37’ 10km. There’s also a chance I won’t be able to race Oliver 10km. And that’s ok. There’s always next year.

03/29/2026

This was so hard!! Testing Stair Stepper vs. Elliptical—Elliptical feels more like running, stairs feel more like threshold, and better for sustaining a more appropriate HR for a Threshold workout.

I have been forcing things, which is definitely not the way to go!! After a really good Tuesday/Wednesday training, I felt some twinges, and instead of listening and taking Thursday off, I tried to run. It was horrible. I stopped early, but not soon enough.. next time, I will cross train.

I’m not injured, but old familiar feelings of nerviness in my leg and the very faintest shadow of sensation over my right IT band tells me loud and clear to listen.

Getting through IT band injury 2-years ago was a roughhh go!! I wouldn’t wish running through that on anyone.

All of this, to remind you, “the body keeps the score.” Your mind and ego might care a great deal if you hit the weekly mileage targets, workouts, and weights, but the goal is to perform, not have a perfect record. Your body doesn’t care what the calendar says.

If the body asks for rest, take it. The great Jack Daniels says you lose nothing for 5-days without training. I trust that. I have never regretted taking an extra couple days off or to cross train.

Sticking to the plan at all costs is so much more detrimental than missing a few days.

03/27/2026

Physios, personal trainers, RMTs, other HC providers—If you prescribe exercise, this is for you!

My husband heard my challenges with exercise prescription software over the past 6-years, and now together we have developed HC Video!

In a nutshell, you record custom videos with your clients during their session. You talk-to-text or input the details of the exercise, reps, sets, frequency, etc., hit a button and the program sends via email and text. Hit another button, and the program is copied to your clipboard so you can easily put it in your chart. Chart notes done. Exercise prescription done. No doing exercise prescriptions at the end of your day or on the weekend. No falling behind.

Each session is saved in the clients dashboard. Each time you see them, you can quickly review their exercises, rather than having to read back in chart notes.

The client can download or view the exercises at their will.

I have been using the software for a few weeks now and am super stoked with the results!

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