About Us
Combining passion and knowledge to heal, every-body that moves.
Our Story
Our name exemplifies the services we provide. For example CORE can be interpreted as your brain, body and who we surround ourselves with and KINESIS is the study of movement.
We strive to be an integral part of the community by providing services to all family members regardless of age.
Our Core Values are:
EMPOWER: educate with the knowledge to understand the body, making informed decisions for habit and lifestyle changes.
GROW: Take the knowledge to maximize positive growth in the body, mind and spirit.
EVOLVE: Don’t ever stop listening and adapt as needs demand.
Our office
At Core Kinesis Physiotherapy we use a combination of manual and movement-based therapy. We are dedicated and pride ourselves in delivering the highest quality of care by using evidence-based practice to address your core issues. In doing this, we use a holistic approach by incorporating mind, body and spirit.
For example, our mind is the control center of our body, simply put the brain sends signals from the nervous system to the muscular system, which in part gets us to move our joints and body.
Also, with better body awareness we are able to optimize our movement, reducing and preventing injuries from occurring.
And finally by making the connection of our minds and bodies we are able to have a more peaceful spirit with harmony and fluidity in our inner and outer environments.
Our Location
Servicing our local community, Core Kinesis Physiotherapy is conveniently located in the heart of Coquitlam, serving the greater Tri-Cities area, including Port Moody and Port Coquitlam. Our central location allows us to be deeply connected with our local community and easily accessible for residents seeking expert Physiotherapy. We are proud to be a local choice for health and wellness for our community.
Our Local Activities
Coquitlam Crunch
The Coquitlam Crunch is a well-known outdoor exercise facility and trail built along a set of hydro power lines on a steep slope, offering a challenging urban hike right in the heart of the city. Often referred to as “Coquitlam’s Grouse Grind,” this popular route attracts fitness enthusiasts from across the Tri-Cities and beyond. Its approximately 2.2-kilometer ascent, featuring over 400 vertical stairs, provides an intensive workout and is frequently used for fitness training, rehabilitation, and achieving a variety of personal health goals.
Port Moody Inlet
The Port Moody Inlet, a picturesque extension of Burrard Inlet, stands as a central hub for recreational and community activities, reflecting the active lifestyle of the Tri-Cities. Surrounded by scenic trails and waterfront parks like Rocky Point Park, the inlet is a favored spot for kayaking, paddleboarding, and canoeing, with several local rental shops making water access easy. On land, the area is perfect for waterside strolls, cycling, and enjoying the many local breweries and eateries that line the shoreline, making it an ideal destination for both physical activity and relaxed social gatherings.
Local Parks
Town Centre Park and Mundy Park serve as vital green spaces, deeply integrated into the health and recreational fabric of Coquitlam. Town Centre Park, located centrally, is a multi-use hub featuring sports fields, an aquatic complex, and Lafarge Lake, which is circled by a popular walking and jogging path and often hosts community events. Mundy Park, contrastingly, offers a more natural, forested environment, providing extensive networks of trails for hiking, trail running, and dog walking, as well as being home to the city’s largest outdoor swimming pool. Both parks are essential for local residents, providing accessible, varied settings for exercise, athletic pursuits, and the ongoing rehabilitation and maintenance of physical health.
Local Lakes
Buntzen Lake and Sasamat Lake, both located slightly north of the core Tri-Cities area and easily accessible, offer stunning natural escapes and further underscore the region’s commitment to outdoor recreation. Sasamat Lake, known for its warm water and sandy beach at White Pine Beach, is a favorite for families and casual swimmers, while Buntzen Lake is a larger, more rugged destination popular for hiking (including the challenging Diez Vistas trail), canoeing, kayaking, and fishing. Both locations provide extensive trail networks and designated swimming areas, serving as essential regional resources for those seeking active recovery, intensive outdoor exercise, and restorative time in nature.
Core Kinesis Physiotherapy
prides itself in having staff that are highly trained and diversely educated. We facilitate and encourage continuing education and inter-team comradery by having regular in-services/meetings with opportunity for professional growth. Using this philosophy, this helps to optimize staff satisfaction, which translates into best care for our clients.
Mission:
Our mission is to guide and help you make long term changes to move beyond the focus of pain & dysfunction by developing the skills and body awareness to optimize your health through life.
Vision:
We are a client centered clinic with a focus on movement-based therapy working with you to prevent injury as well as rehabilitation post injury by maximizing function. We have strong connections with our community and other health professionals providing interconnections for our clients.
Our treatment approach
Our treatment approach is based on science using The Performance Pyramid. The focus at the bottom of the pyramid is when someone has been injured or learning a new skill, here manual therapy and modalities can help to address pain, inflammation, and increase body awareness. Then the middle of the pyramid is where movement-based therapy works to develop strength, new habits and ways to move. Finally, the top of the pyramid is being able to perform at your potential the activities you enjoy.
To reach optimal functioning you need to move through the pyramid addressing all components. If you miss a tier, long-term changes may not persist, risking re-injury or further dysfunction. By guiding you through the pyramid we will help you maximize your function putting you in charge of your body.
Skill: mastering a task
Performance: strength, power, speed, coordination, agility and endurance to provide good movement skills
Movement: range of motion, joint mobility, tissue extensibility, balance and posture
Evolve
Empower.Grow.Evolve
Core Kinesis
Clinic H0urs
Monday-Friday: 7am – 8pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed