Benefits Canada lands in your real or virtual mailbox, our long-time editor, Jennifer Paterson, will be back from her maternity leave (
Ed note: she returned on May 3) and I’ll be done my short stint as interim editor and returning to my role as managing editor. Wrapping up my tenure as editor with a story that involves tequila and a mechanical bull feels, well, like a whole bowl of right. That story highlights how even physiotherapists have gone virtual during the coronavirus crisis.
Getting treatment for a physical ailment like an injured shoulder seems like something that can only be done in person. Not so, says Mike McClenahan. Back in 2018, the then-managing partner of Benefits by Design Inc., was skeptical at first but opting for virtual physiotherapy care had its advantages. “When you go to a bricks-and-mortar physiotherapist, what’s the first thing they ask you? [It’s] ‘Have you been doing your exercises?’ If you’re like me, the answer is, ‘Sort of.’ . . . [The app] adds a layer of accountability that’s hard to mimic with a bricks-and-mortar model.”