# Therese Leigh

Partner · Physiotherapist, BSc Physiotherapy, MHA, Dip Sport Physio, FCAMPT, GunnIMS

Accepting new patients

**Physiotherapy**: Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy, IMS and Dry Needling, Sports Physiotherapy, Concussion Rehabilitation, Strength and Conditioning, Splints and Bracing, Manual Therapy, Electrotherapy, Shockwave Therapy

Village North · Whistler Athlete Centre

## Career highlights

- Co-founder and physiotherapist, Back in Action Physiotherapy, since 2010
- Lead physiotherapist, Canada Snowboard, 2017–2023, including Slopestyle and Big Air at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
- Lead physiotherapist, Canadian National Ski Cross Team, 2010–2015, including on-hill care at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
- Physiotherapist, Canadian National Alpine Ski Team, 2003–2014, including the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
- Sport Physiotherapy Diploma; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy (FCAMPT)

## About

Therese is a sport physiotherapist with more than 20 years supporting elite skiers, snowboarders and mountain athletes at Olympic, World Cup, national-team and community levels. She holds a Sport Physiotherapy Diploma and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy (FCAMPT), with a BSc in Physiotherapy and a Master of Health Administration from the University of British Columbia. Her return-to-play experience is extensive: she led athlete health for Canada Snowboard across five national-team disciplines, was lead physiotherapist for the Canadian National Ski Cross Team, and spent eleven seasons with the Canadian National Alpine Ski Team.

In the clinic she focuses on movement analysis and rehabilitation: complex orthopaedic injuries, post-surgical rehabilitation, and exercise programming built around how you actually move and the goal you came in with. She works with physicians and surgeons on complex musculoskeletal injuries and mentors the clinic’s physiotherapists. Therese is the only practitioner at Back in Action who offers neuro-reconditioning, which treats the control centre, the nervous system that organizes movement, and not only the injured area, alongside her musculoskeletal work.

Her training also covers vestibular and concussion management (she set up concussion baseline testing and return-to-sport systems for the ski cross team), Gunn IMS dry needling, and sport first response. Therese co-founded Back in Action in 2010 and is deeply connected to Whistler and the Sea to Sky. She kiteboards, skis, rides, hikes and does yoga.

## Details

- Areas of focus: Sport physiotherapy and return to sport, Movement analysis and exercise programming, Complex orthopaedic and post-surgical rehabilitation, Neuro-reconditioning, Concussion and vestibular rehabilitation

## Book

Therese's calendar is online.

- Seven days a week across two clinics
- No referral needed
- Direct billing to most extended-health insurers

- [Book with Therese at Village North](https://backinactionphysiotherapy.janeapp.com/locations/back-in-action-physiotherapy-and-massage-village-north-location/book#/staff_member/1)
- [Book with Therese at Whistler Athlete Centre](https://backinactionphysiotherapy.janeapp.com/locations/whistler-athlete-centre-csipacific-cheakamus-crossing-south-of-village-10-min-drive/book#/staff_member/1)

### The bench is deep.

All twelve physiotherapists work to the same standard.

[Meet the physios](https://backinactionphysiotherapy.com/services/physiotherapy#team)

## People they work beside

- [Mike Conway, Physiotherapist, M. PT Sports, M. PT Manips, M. PT Studies, BSc Kin, CHT, GunnIMS, FCAMPT, CSCS](https://backinactionphysiotherapy.com/team/mike-conway)
- [Bianca Matheson, Physiotherapist, BSc PT, Grad Dip PT Manips, Dip Sports Physio, FCAMPT, GunnIMS](https://backinactionphysiotherapy.com/team/bianca-matheson)
- [Jian Soares, Physiotherapist, M ClinPhys, BSc PT, FCAMPT](https://backinactionphysiotherapy.com/team/jian-soares)

[The full roster (18)](https://backinactionphysiotherapy.com/team)