Sarah McGall - The Hockey Physio

10/14/2024

Full circle moment in Owen Sound. Thankful for everyone who’s helped along the way.

🍁🦃⭕️🏒

08/20/2024

It is with great excitement to announce I will be joining the Peterborough Petes as a Physiotherapist/Athletic Therapist for the 2024-2025 season.

Thank you to .rehab for helping me develop into the therapist I am today and thank you to all my athletes and patients along the way. A new adventure awaits.

✌️🏒

05/23/2024

QOD:
WYR win a Buckland cup or a Centennial cup?
Answer: BOTH

What a ride it’s been with these boys. Thank you to the for allowing me to be apart of such an incredible team. It a been an honour to work with such wonderful coaches and support staff this past season.

The job is done 🏆🏆

02/29/2024

Same but different 🐶 ❄️

10/18/2023

PSA

I will be out of office .rehab from Nov 3-Nov 10th. I will be traveling to Dawson Creek, BC to work with Team Ontario Red for the U18 Women’s National Championship. 

Make sure to book in before take off 🛫✌️

08/29/2023

August (Auggie) Murphy ❤️🐶

07/04/2023

Love this!

Are you familiar with the concept of Load vs. Capacity? It’s helpful for understanding why pain and injury can happen.

Loads are anything that cost you energy ⚡. This can be a physical, mental or emotional stressor. A workout is a load on your system, as is an argument with someone you love.

The dotted line represents your capacity; how much your body can handle. When we operate below this line we remain healthy and relatively pain-free, and above this line we run into problems.

The boxes represent loads that we face every day.

1️⃣ How your body is built - any aspects of your anatomy that aren’t serving you the way you would like. ie. different shaped hip joints, surgical hardware.

2️⃣ Recovery - your stress response, sleep quality/quantity, and nutrition quality/quantity. The poorer they are, the greater the load on your body.

3️⃣ How well you move - what positions can you get into, and how easily? Significant deficits in joint range of motion increase the stress on the body’s tissues and make certain movements more difficult for your body. This contributes to a higher load.

4️⃣ & 5️⃣ We would also layer on boxes for home life, work life and activities of interest like working out and playing sports.

When you come up against a twinge in your back picking up a laundry basket, “Load vs. Capacity” helps us appreciate that there’s more at play than the weight of the basket. Under different conditions, you might be well set-up to handle the extra stress.

We can also see where there are opportunities to create more space below that capacity line. By working to improve sleep, diet, stress and mobility, we reduce the size of those boxes. This can make the difference between ending the day with your typical pain, and managing everything you’d like to with ease.

The goal of training is to inch that dotted line upward to increase the size of your capacity. The more capacity you unlock, the more stress your body can handle.

Cool, right? More about Load vs. Capacity to come, stay tuned!

05/06/2023

April was a trip💨 🚗🏆
Small wins and small goals leads to big wins and big goals. Congrats to the on winning the Buckland Cup! Such a special group to be apart of. Next up the Centennial Cup in Manitoba… Good luck boys!

05/01/2023

So happy to have been able to host a fun taping workshop .rehab

Everyone had a blast while learning tips and tricks for common tape jobs of the ankles,knees and wrists.

Good luck to all players, parents and coaches as spring sports starts up ⚽️🥍

03/11/2023

This guy has worked so hard and deserved such a special game! Proud PT/AT moments 🏒

03/06/2023

Looking back at the Canada Winter Games 2023… such a wild ride.

So grateful to have been a part of Team Ontario Men’s and Women’s hockey as a Sponsored Medical Professional. To say my heart rate was tested watching these athletes compete is an understatement but it was all worth it in the end. The women came home with a bronze 🥉and the men came home with the gold 🥇in a thrilling OT victory!

I was able to meet and learn from some top-notch medical professionals, coaches,and volunteers and a huge thanks goes out to @2023.canadagames and P.E.I. for such amazing hospitality.

Can’t wait to see what these athletes do in the future🏒

02/09/2023

So honored to represent the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association as a Sponsored MedicalConnect Rehabilitation next 2 weeks in PEI at the Canada Winter Games!

Excited to work with some amazing athletes, however, this means I will be out of office at Connect Rehabilitation from Feb 17 until March 6.

Can't wait to see what this new adventure will bring!