Success Stories

It’s been almost 50 years since the roaring crowds in the stands cheered our university teams to victory.

Unfortunately, yesterday’s playing field is not the only thing that has changed in life. My hairline is receding and what hair remains is turning gray. Eyesight and reflexes are starting to falter, and this formerly physically fit athlete has lost more than a step or two in speed and agility.

The past half-century has also managed to bless me with more than my fair share of miraculous transformation of muscle to fat. One is led to understand that sometimes marriage, fatherhood, responsibilities and careers tend to do that to some of us.

Over the years, while still participating in athletic events on far less competitive levels, situations have arisen where my body, muscles or tendons have chosen to rebel against the stresses being unwisely demanded of them.

Somewhere in the dim past and primarily because of sometimes pushing too fast, too hard or too soon, my first middle-aged sports injury brought me to the attention of the great people at Waterloo Sports Medicine Centre.

The folks at the front desk, through to the medical staff – the doctors and especially the physiotherapists and pedorthists – have all been spectacular in their helpfulness and in their achievements. They all contributed to making my first visit a truly positive, rehabilitative and healing experience.

As well, any and all subsequent periods of treatment and therapy for other injuries, have all contributed greatly to my rehabilitation and recuperation.

Thanks to the team at WSM – my journey to painless functionality is always met with great success.

Matching WSM to the history books of reconstruction, rehabilitation and the art and science of “putting people back together again,” one could only conclude that even Humpty Dumpty would most certainly have been put back together again, wonderfully, by the caring professionals at Waterloo Sports Medicine.

Now, if only they could see their way clear to coming up with some way of solving my periodic bouts of “creative drought” and writer’s block” …