Joanne Gailius' focus is on whole body women's health….bowels and bladders, pelvic organ support, baby-having, menopausal challenges, bone health, heart health, pelvic pain and breast/pelvic cancers. Restoring brilliant movement and meaningful function is what Full Circle Physiotherapy offers you. Whatever women's health concerns you are experiencing, Joanne is passionate about helping you find the best you!
Meet Joanne Gailius
Joanne graduated from UBC in 1983 with a dual degree in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy with a plan to work with children in the developing world. After working in Kamloops, Papua New Guinea and Comox, Joanne and her family arrived in the Creston Valley in 1999. Postgraduate training began with neurology and paediatrics, followed by community based rehabilitation. The next decade was devoted to manual therapy. In 2008, Joanne began focusing on pelvic and women's health physiotherapy education and certification. Pelvic yoga therapy and yoga teacher training sparked a lifelong love of movement studies. Joanne assesses and treats women on an individualized basis in her clinic as well as offering PhysioYoga classes for women with cancer at The Yoga Room.
Personal Passions: family life on Full Circle Farm, walking gently on the planet, fibre arts, aging with strength and joy
Personal Passions: family life on Full Circle Farm, walking gently on the planet, fibre arts, aging with strength and joy
Services
Before your First Appointment
Contacting Us
You may email jgphysio@shaw.ca or phone 250-254-3494 to book your first appointment. We are now using an online booking system from which you can book follow-up appointments or move or cancel your appointment(s) online. You will be able to manage your appointments online after your first assessment appointment.
After you book your first appointment, you'll be sent a welcome email with a form to fill out to help make your first visit easier for both you and the clinic. If you're coming for pelvic issues or breast cancer specifically, please let us know so an additional form is sent to you. Your first appointment will be 60 - 75 minutes. Follow-up appointments are 30 or 60 minutes depending on your needs. If it's been two years since your last appointment or a new concern, you may need a full hour assessment again.
Confidentiality
Your information is private and confidential. Only those with whom you've give a release of information to our clinic will have access. You many change and/or update your preferences at any time.
Preparing for your first visit
On your first visit, please know that you are here to share your history and present concerns. It may help to write down your concerns as well as bring any test results and medication lists that you may have. Wear comfortable clothes. If you're seeking pelvic physiotherapy, you may choose to have an internal examination in addition to an external examination. It's up to you at any time.
Welcome
We try to be timely with your appointment and ask that you do as well. There is no receptionist, so please just come in, make yourself comfortable and we'll be with you as soon as possible. There is a bathroom beside the waiting room and magazines and information for you to read.
Payment Options and Cancellation Policy
Payment is expected on the day of service and is in the form of cash, cheque or etransfer. No cards are accepted at present. We do not direct bill insurance companies but will give you the appropriate receipt (in paper or by email) in order for you to seek reimbursement. These choices are done in an effort to keep the cost of your appointments at a minimum and make this service available to as many women as possible without cost becoming an impediment.
If you need to cancel, please do so as soon as possible with at least 48 hours' notice. If you miss one appointment, there is no charge. Missing a second appointment requires full payment before you may book again. This booking system will send you an email reminder 1 - 2 days prior to your appointment and a text 2 hours before your appointment.
Stay in Touch and Learn More
If you're interested in keeping up on women's health issues, you're welcome to read our blog as well as reading Joanne's articles in the Creston Valley Advance newspaper. If you have specific questions about women's health, pelvic or oncology physiotherapy, email me and I'll include that in an article coming your way soon!
You may email jgphysio@shaw.ca or phone 250-254-3494 to book your first appointment. We are now using an online booking system from which you can book follow-up appointments or move or cancel your appointment(s) online. You will be able to manage your appointments online after your first assessment appointment.
After you book your first appointment, you'll be sent a welcome email with a form to fill out to help make your first visit easier for both you and the clinic. If you're coming for pelvic issues or breast cancer specifically, please let us know so an additional form is sent to you. Your first appointment will be 60 - 75 minutes. Follow-up appointments are 30 or 60 minutes depending on your needs. If it's been two years since your last appointment or a new concern, you may need a full hour assessment again.
Confidentiality
Your information is private and confidential. Only those with whom you've give a release of information to our clinic will have access. You many change and/or update your preferences at any time.
Preparing for your first visit
On your first visit, please know that you are here to share your history and present concerns. It may help to write down your concerns as well as bring any test results and medication lists that you may have. Wear comfortable clothes. If you're seeking pelvic physiotherapy, you may choose to have an internal examination in addition to an external examination. It's up to you at any time.
Welcome
We try to be timely with your appointment and ask that you do as well. There is no receptionist, so please just come in, make yourself comfortable and we'll be with you as soon as possible. There is a bathroom beside the waiting room and magazines and information for you to read.
Payment Options and Cancellation Policy
Payment is expected on the day of service and is in the form of cash, cheque or etransfer. No cards are accepted at present. We do not direct bill insurance companies but will give you the appropriate receipt (in paper or by email) in order for you to seek reimbursement. These choices are done in an effort to keep the cost of your appointments at a minimum and make this service available to as many women as possible without cost becoming an impediment.
If you need to cancel, please do so as soon as possible with at least 48 hours' notice. If you miss one appointment, there is no charge. Missing a second appointment requires full payment before you may book again. This booking system will send you an email reminder 1 - 2 days prior to your appointment and a text 2 hours before your appointment.
Stay in Touch and Learn More
If you're interested in keeping up on women's health issues, you're welcome to read our blog as well as reading Joanne's articles in the Creston Valley Advance newspaper. If you have specific questions about women's health, pelvic or oncology physiotherapy, email me and I'll include that in an article coming your way soon!
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