Kevin Mattinson, RMT
Kevin is excited by the unique challenges that patients bring to him in his practice as a Registered Massage Therapist. Finding the source of your problems and bringing you relief from them is what he thrives on. Not simply treating symptoms, but helping you understand their cause and how you can try and avoid them recurring in the future.
Kevin has an innate passion to help people achieve their goals or desired outcomes in treatment. Whether you are interested in pain relief, rehabilitation, athletic performance or maintenance, trust that you are in good hands. Kevin will assess your condition, give you options for treatment, and work with you to help achieve your desired results.
He is looking forward to meeting you and helping you on your journey towards health and wellness.
Hoba Chenari, Manual Osteopath
As a manual osteopath Hoba emphasizes his treatment on assessment, and physical manipulation of muscle tissue and bone. The two essential components of Osteopathy are; one, structural assessment and two, all the different techniques for the treatment. The aim of the structural assessment is to identify specific somatic dysfunctions. Diagnostic criteria for somatic dysfunctions focus on the tone and possible abnormalities of tissue texture. Areas of asymmetry and misalignment of bony landmarks are also evaluated, along with the quality of motion, balance, and organization. The term Osteopathy currently includes more than 20 types of manual treatments administered by osteopaths.
Being passionate about the human body and its dysfunctions, Hoba started his path to explore the human body by studying medicine at the age of 18 at Guilan University of medical sciences.
In 2010, almost 8 years later, at the age of 26, He became a medical doctor aka “general practitioner” in Guilan, and started practicing medicine in remote areas.
In 2015, he started to pursue his long-lasting passion and took a variety of courses in sports medicine, fitness training, rehabilitation, and established his sports medicine facility in Tehran, Iran. The clinic was a multidisciplinary clinic consisting of him as the director and medical doctor, an osteopath, a physiotherapist, a Pilates trainer, a nutritionist, and a personal trainer.
In 2017 he became a certified “soccer team doctor” and obtained permission to work with professional soccer players and teams. In 2018, after sustaining injuries while snowboarding and skydiving, he lost his interest in western medicine protocols, and started to study holistic approaches and became interested in osteopathy. Therefore, he studied osteopathy.
He holds to the opinion that it is of paramount importance to be familiar with conventional medicine, such as his background in medicine, and knowing the anatomy, physiology, pathology, kinesiology, and proper structural patterns of the human body and then using a holistic approach to be able to answer properly to patients’ concerns and help them to retain their health, enhance their wellness and well-being.
In 2020, Hoba graduated from the National Academy of osteopathy in Toronto, Ontario as an Osteopathic Manual Practitioner, D.O.M.P., or “Manual osteopath. He is a member of the British Columbia Association of osteopathic manual practitioners (BCAOMP) and the National Canadian Association of Alternative Medicine (ACMA).
Recently, Hoba has also taken courses in Neurokinetic Therapy and is able to help patients with this new approach as well.
Hoba loves adventures, hiking, and outdoor activities. That’s why he is living on the North shore to be close to hikes, lakes, mountains, and trails. He is a solo skydiver, snowboarder, scuba-diver and he loves surfing and stand-up paddle boarding. He never misses a single day of his workouts at the gym and has a passion for night-landscapes and is an astrophotography.
He is looking forward to using his combined knowledge and skills to address your concerns and get you back to the activities they love.
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