Andrew Hume, MSc

04/14/2026

Kinesiotherapy classes have some openings for the spring 2026 session. Classes start the week of April 20th and end of the week of June 22nd.


- Thurs 12:30pm: 1 vacancy

The Kinesiotherapy classes are small group (11 max) functional movement and pain management based classes designed to help adults live with an improved quality of life as they age. Adults of any age are welcome, but the content is geared toward 40+ and scaled appropriately depending on the overall age and general physical condition of each group. Some classes have a mix of ages, while others are entirely older adults. I help folks find the best group for them by meeting with all interested participants prior to signing up. Classes are offered at reactive health in Stratford.

Kinesiotherapy classes focus on teaching proper body mechanics for exercises that help improve general strength, mobility, balance, and coordination - with an additional emphasis on injury prevention and pain management. They are intended to complement people's regular recreational pursuits as well as help open doors for people who would like to start living a more active, healthy lifestyle.

Please message me here on FB or via email at andrew.w.hume@gmail.com if you are interested and I will give you more information.

Thank you,

Andrew

01/01/2026

Music has a way of facilitating and guiding our intentions, our movements, and our internal state. For these reasons, it is an integral part of my kinesiotherapy classes. Exercise class music should be more than just a simple random playlist - it should represent the heart and soul of the experience you want your participants to have...the essential vibe that you are attempting to create. Kinesiotherapy class playlists are always created from start to finish by the instructor. This demo I just put together gives a pretty accurate depiction of the overall tone, length, and feeling that I try to lay down for people as they work toward better health. Turn the volume up a bit and take it for a test drive🤘😊. Happy New Year everyone.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7FV0vc9AKxqUoIrzUXdiQM?si=zsrx91vzTwmSVHMienB7kA&pi=c_7gpH_rRr6el

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12/28/2025

Kinesiotherapy classes have some openings for 2026. Classes run from early January to end of March/first of April.

- Thurs 12:30: 1 vacancy

- Friday 8:45am: 3 vacancies

The Kinesiotherapy classes are small group (11 max) functional movement and pain management based classes designed to help adults live with an improved quality of life as they age. Adults of any age are welcome, but the content is geared toward 40+ and scaled appropriately depending on the overall age and general physical condition of each group. Some classes have a mix of ages, while others are entirely older adults. I help folks find the best group for them by meeting with all interested participants prior to signing up. Classes are offered at reactive health in Stratford.

Kinesiotherapy classes focus on teaching proper body mechanics for exercises that help improve general strength, mobility, balance, and coordination - with an additional emphasis on injury prevention and pain management. They are intended to complement people's regular recreational pursuits as well as help open doors for people who would like to start living a more active, healthy lifestyle.

Please message me here on FB or via email at andrew.w.hume@gmail.com if you are interested and I will give you more information.

Thank you,

Andrew

08/26/2025

Kinesiotherapy classes have some openings

- Tuesday 5:30: 1 vacancy
- Ongoing - runs until Dec 9th

- Thursday 12:30: 1 vacancy
- Ongoing - runs until Dec 11th

- Friday 8:45am: 1 vacancy
- Ongoing - runs until Dec 12th

Kinesiotherapy is a functional movement based, adult only, small class (11 people max) offered at reactive health in Stratford.

It focuses on teaching proper body mechanics, improving general mobility and essential aspects of balance and coordination, building overall body strength and resilience to injury, with an additional high priority on soft-tissue pain management strategies. It is a healthy, manageable combination of general fitness and rehabilitation based content.

Kinesiotherapy has evolved from my multiple years of experience as a clinician - it is designed to help you improve and maintain the quality and control of your physical life as you age. That is my primary overarching goal for this class.

Please message me here on FB or via email at andrew.w.hume@gmail.com if you are interested and I will give you more information.

Thank you,

Andrew

10/12/2022

Another round of registration is open for fall programs!

These classes are great for Islanders who have a chronic disease and want to make improvements to their health through safe, effective exercise/movement. The programs are 6 weeks long and offered virtually (using Zoom). There are modifications for all levels and abilities.

Please visit https://www.beckexercisephysiology.ca/exercise-for-health-program-1 and complete the form.

Please help share the word with friends and family who may be interested and benefit from movement that works for them.

04/21/2022

I absolutely love this video! There is no denying the plethora of scientific data supporting the immense benefit of true strength training for the health, longevity, and quality of life of older adults. It has to be programmed properly, don't forget that...and I am very happy to see places like this sprouting up and showing some real-world anecdotal evidence of it's effectiveness.

People say the stupidest things about strength training after fifty. Sully takes down 10 of the Stupidest! Don't let mythology keep you from getting strong a...

04/15/2022

I've worked with people suffering from persistent pain for over 10 years now. During my numerous conversations, observations, and interventions with such folks I have found the information in this video to be very accurate. I want people to understand I do realize that sometimes people's issues with pain do not fit this description (e.g. people needing joint replacements, surgery to correct a significant nerve impingement or large scale rotator cuff tear, etc)...but, my point here is that more often than not I believe that they do.

Please use the info in this brief video to help you start thinking about persistent pain differently, for yourself or maybe a loved one. The pain that you feel is very real, pain always is...but long term pain more often than not does not mean that something is horribly wrong with your body. A lot of times, it is that your nervous system has become VERY sensitive to stimuli that otherwise would be benign. This may happen in one particular area, or even several. Have a listen...

Pain scientists starting to think differently about persistent (chronic) pain and its causes, are they're making exciting discoveries - like how you think ab...

02/28/2022

Done 3x/week, on the regular...it just works

Myofascial Release lengthens your body’s muscles and connective tissue to relieve pain common in soft tissue disorders. Fascia is a thin white layer of tissu...

10/17/2021

Kinesiologists have been helping people improve their quality of life for decades, but public education on who we are and what we do is still lacking. Kinesiologists can work with a wide variety of health conditions, in a variety of settings - but there are 2 primary areas of positive change needed to help this 'movement' be most effective for both the practitioners and the general public: improved coverage for kinesiology services by your private insurance company (blue cross, sunlife, Manulife, etc.) and more health and wellness locations around the country that employ kinesiologists to work independently. Please take a second to share this message, and please consider contacting your insurance company to simply request coverage for kinesiology services. Thank you 🙂

08/15/2021

RESEARCH CORNER - A very large (over 6400 people from 29 countries) study shows that a decline in adult metabolism doesn't actually occur until about age 60. This means that the gradual weight gain that typically starts happening to most of us at around age 30...it can't be blamed on a 'slowed metabolism' as we often say. So what can we 'blame' it on? The research study did not attempt to directly answer this question - but my opinion would be a simple increase in caloric intake as the main factor (with less overall activity as another variable). Generally speaking...we eat too much food folks, and much of it is not as healthy as it should be. My own personal experience with weight loss has definitely illuminated the fact that even when we think we are not eating much in the run of a day, we typically are still taking in too many calories.

For instance, I currently need about 3000 calories to maintain my weight, when I was in the process of losing weight I measured a lot of my food for accurate caloric counting - so that I knew for sure I was consistently staying about 500 calories below my maintenance calories, literally everyday - and it worked. What I found quite interesting was that a typical meal could EASILY be close to 1000 calories (or more), an unhealthy evening snack (e.g. chips) could pack on several hundred calories without breaking a sweat, and going for your money's worth when eating out...well you don't even want to know the result of that one. I'm not a dietitian, I'm a kinesiologist, so while I am not trying to tell people how to lose weight - I am attempting to illustrate just how easy it is to take in more energy than we expend. Keep in mind that many people, especially women, usually need much less than 3000 calories per day to maintain body weight -- making it all that much easier to over-consume when you choose to eat in the 'average' Canadian way.

Metabolic rate remains stable all through adult life, from age 20 to 60 years old.

07/18/2021

EXERCISE THERAPY - A simple but excellent hip, back, and shoulder stretch.

As the arrows indicate, while holding on to something sturdy simply let the hips move back as far as possible without bending the knees too much and at the same time slowly push your chest down to the floor without bending your elbows. An added tip here is to push your lower back into a posterior tilt (tailbone tucked down/flat low back position) to force your mid-upper spine into extension. Also, holding something more anchored than a chair would work best, such as the edge of the kitchen sink. You can either hold a continuous stretch as you breathe deeply or repeat up and down for reps dropping down into it as you exhale slowly. I like to do both - a handful of reps then hold for about 30 seconds.
If done as described, this exercise mobilizes the glutes and hamstrings, and puts a healthy amount of therapeutic traction on the spine and shoulder complex. If you drop down into this position and it causes some shoulder pain, then you may have some undiagnosed impingement at that joint or other shoulder pathology. Time to see your physiotherapist if that's you.