Victoria has always been passionate about movement & physical activity as medicine.
She has deep roots in Chilliwack, growing up and participating in many local sports and fitness program here. Over the years she’s taught dance, fitness classes, personal training, she ran and participated in rehab programs for children and persons with disabilities, and carried out strength and conditioning programming for university, olympic, amateur and professional athletes.
In 2013 she graduated from the University of Calgary with her Bachelors of Kinesiology and a promising career in Strength and Conditioning. Hungry for more, she returned closer to home to pursue her Masters of Physical Therapy at UBC. In 2024 she completed her specialization in Sports Physiotherapy, being awarded her Sport Physiotherapy Diploma and making her Chilliwack’s first Sports Physio!
Always learning and striving to be and do better for her patients, she continues to grow her expertise in biomechanics, strength, conditioning, and physical therapy through continuing education. Keep an eye on @FV.sport.PT to follow her journey. In addition to her Sports Physiotherapy credentials she is a trained concussion, vestibular, IMS and canine physiotherapist. She can prescribe therapeutic exercise, offer a unique perspective for training program modifications, perform manual therapy, taping, cupping, needling, vestibular, Mulligan, and many other Physiotherapy treatments for both human and canine clientele!
When she’s not at work you can find her in the community with local sporting organizations. In fact, you’ve probably seen her around town working with various schools, teams and athletes, providing event coverage, field side assessment and treatment, baseline testing, injury prevention programming, creating custom medical kits, providing training supplies, and teaching educational in-services and lectures including her ‘Train the Trainer: an Introduction to Athletic Training’ and ‘Athletic Taping: the Basics’ courses.
Determined to never stop learning and bettering her practice, Victoria strives to provide her clients with the highest quality care, keeping them active in whatever drives them, or guiding them through a durable, speedy recovery!