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“You and your team deserve the utmost praise for identifying the primary underlying issues and providing effective therapy.”

Thank you for a job well done. My multiple experiences with personal trainers and physiotherapists have rarely produced as positive a result. You and your team deserve the utmost praise for identifying the primary underlying issues and providing effective therapy. Additionally, you accomplished the objective within a very tight, externally imposed, time frame. This wholehearted endorsement will be forwarded to my other health care providers, in the hope that patients they refer to you will achieve similar excellent results.

“To this day I still visit clients both inside and outside the PACE on a regular basis as I truly do consider them friends.”

My name is Andrew Mikhail and I’m a former volunteer and staff member at the PACE. My first experience with PACE was after my first year of undergrad when I began volunteering in the MacWheelers exercise program. I truly enjoyed my summer volunteering there, helping out the clients in a very friendly and supportive environments. I found myself wanting to be there more often and it didn’t feel like a “volunteering task” but more of a place where I can come socialize with clients while helping them follow their exercise programs. During my second year, I increased my volunteer shifts to 3-4 times per week where I got to know more of the lovely clients and previous staff. During May 2016, I had the honour of being hired as a staff member for the MSFITT and MacWheelers program. I can confidently say that it was my favourite employment. Aside from building on my friendships with both staff and clients, I was able to have more responsibilities and further help clients by creating individualized exercise programs and leading one on one sessions on specialized equipment such as the lokomat and Zero-G. Unfortunately, I am no longer a staff member at PACE after beginning my master’s degree, but my experience there will stay with me forever. Many of the skills I learned at PACE including good clinical practice and modifying exercises to fit an individual have really helped me in my graduate studies while organizing my own research studies. To this day I still visit clients both inside and outside the PACE on a regular basis as I truly do consider them friends.

“Volunteering at the PACE always brightened my day.”

No matter how busy or stressed I was during the school year, volunteering at the PACE always brightened my day. As a volunteer, it's truly rewarding and humbling to be a part of a client's journey and see them progress over time, knowing that you are making a meaningful difference in their lives.