Know your Core Workshop with Joelle

Our “core” is a coordinated system of muscles which help keep our body stable as we move.

Our core works all day, every day! But is it working optimally? If you have any pain, ANYWHERE, if you’ve had any injuries to the back, hip, knee, ankle, or shoulder...if you’ve been through a pregnancy and delivery, then the answer is NO and this workshop is for you

If you’ve heard “turn on your core”, “tighten your abs”, “squeeze your pee muscles” and have no idea what that means or if you’re doing it correctly, then this workshop is for you
If you exercise, do yoga, pilates, HIIT, run, cycle, swim, move your body in any way then this workshop is for you

The goal of this workshop is to help you gain a better understanding of what “the core” is, how to consciously activate it and train the core with take-home exercises you can do daily to optimize your core and prevent injuries related to core weakness.

Joelle Karam is an integrative physiotherapist with 10+ years of clinical experience, specializing in performance optimization in sport and daily activities, efficient recovery from injury and offering tools for injury prevention. Joelle graduated with a Masters of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Prior to that she received a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Degree from McMaster University in Canada. She is a Neurofunctional Sports Performance Practitioner and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Joelle is a clinical educator with the University of Toronto Physical Therapy Program and instructs at the McMaster Contemporary Medical Acupuncture Program.

Joelle understands that the human body is complex and each individual is unique. She has worked in clinic, in training facilities and on the sidelines with amateur and professional athletes, specifically with hockey, basketball, rugby and track. She uses her extensive continuing education and professional experience to offer a distinctive combination of treatment techniques including functional core training, Contemporary Medical Acupuncture/Dry Needling, and soft tissue mobilization, working one on one with her clients to optimize results.