Jennifer Williamson PT & OMP
Jennifer’s training as a PT and OMP has prepared her to treat:
- Nociceptive and nocioplastic pregnancy related pelvic-girdle pain
- Diastasis recti
- Pelvic floor dysfunctions
- Urinary and fecal incontinence
- Sexual pain/dysfunction
- Prolapse
- Supporting emotional and physical pelvic floor trauma
- Lifestyle/health promotion
Training in Women’s Health and Pelvic Floor Health
Jennifer has advanced physiotherapy training for many pelvic health conditions. She has specific training to support women during prenatal care, labour, delivery, and postnatal care which can be done via Telehealth. She has extensive training with Pelvic Health Solutions (PHS) in restoring pelvic health through physiotherapy.
Specifically, Jennifer has completed: Pelvic Health Solutions’ (PHS) Pregnancy and Pelvic Girdle Pain course and Prenatal, Labour and Delivery: Maternal support through comfort measures and Pelvic Biomechanics course. These courses taught internal and external manual therapy techniques to help prepare the patient for labour and delivery, and to help restore the pelvic floor after childbirth. They also taught evidence-based exercises, labour positioning, and modalities for C-section scars.
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Jennifer Williamson PT & OMP
BSc. PT, MSc., DOMP, LLDT
As a Physiotherapist, Osteopath (OMP), and owner of Personal Care Physio, Jennifer Williamson’s primary goal is to optimize patient care through a dynamic integrative team approach while continuing to advance evidenced-based education as a practitioner and in her wellness clinic. She believes in treating the cause, not the symptom, and her expansive background allows her to treat the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels of all her patients.
Jennifer graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physiotherapy from Dalhousie University but began working in physiotherapy in 1992. In 1995 she returned to Dalhouse to complete a masters degree in science specializing in neurology, all while working at the Saint Mary’s Sports Medicine clinic. Her masters degree focused on gait (walking) analysis and neurological conditions (e.g. stroke).
Jennifer began studying osteopathy in 1998 and graduated from Collège d’Etudes Ostéopathiques with an osteopathic degree in 2018. She is board certified in integrative medicine pediatrics with additional advanced pediatric and women’s health manual osteopathic and physiotherapy training. Jennifer has also completed the Canadian Osteopathic Manual Therapy program (CEO).
Since completing her Physiotherapy and Osteopathic Manual Therapy degree, Jennifer has completed extensive course work in:
- Manual physiotherapy (PT)
- Manual osteopathy (OMP)
- Cranial sacral therapy (OMP)
- Visceral manipulation (OMP)
- Lymphatic drainage (OMP & OMP)
- Soft tissue mobilization (PT / OMP)
- Acupuncture & FDN (PT)
- Heart centered therapy (OMP)
- Somato emotional release. (OMP)
Jennifer (OMP) has demonstrated statistical significance in reducing the severity of autism in a research project with children who are on the autistic spectrum under the advisory of her mentor and friend Dr. Shawn K. Centers, DO, at The Children’s HOPE Center in San Diego, and Andrea Mounce-Halasz, DOMP (OMP).
She treats a wide variety of traumas and, because she addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels of each patient, she is able to meet the needs of the entire being with a whole practitioner view.
She loves to treat all ages from the elderly to infants. Some of Jennifer’s special interests include:
- Women’s health, such as: pelvic floor dysfunction; diastasis recti; endometriosis; incontinence; pre-natal care; support for labour and delivery; and post-natal care. (PT and OMP)
- Newborns, infants, and toddlers with conditions such as: colic; consitpation; sleep disturbance, plagiocephaly, and/or birth injuries. (OMP)
- Children who are on the autistic spectrum (OMP)
- Children who are hyperactive (ADHD/ADD) (OMP)
- Lymphedema (OMP and PT)
- Digestive track issues (OMP)
- Concussions, whiplash, migraines, TMJ pain (PT and OMP)
- MVA traumas, spinal alignment and posture (PT & OMP)
- Gait analysis (PT)
- Sport injuries (PT & OMP)
- Arthritis (PT & OMP)
Jennifer’s clinic not only provides a teaching environment for students, but also includes extensive patient education. Jennifer and her clinic’s therapists work hard to offer a warm healing environment conducive to promoting total health and wellbeing.