Built by clinicians, not consultants.
Stride was started in 2017 by two physiotherapists who'd worked in larger systems and wanted to build a practice where the schedule, the room rates, and the standard of care all pointed at the patient instead of around them. Eight years later we're 34 clinicians across five Ontario cities — still clinician-owned, still mad about ten-minute first visits.
Make recovery repeatable.
Most Ontarians who try physiotherapy do six sessions, feel slightly better, and stop. Half of them are back inside two years with the same complaint. That's the loop we built Stride to break.
Repeatable means three things: a screen that finds the actual cause; a treatment plan that integrates manual therapy with strength; and a discharge protocol that hands you the maintenance plan. When all three happen, recovery sticks. When even one is missing, it doesn't.
What we put on the wall.
Time is the medicine.
Sixty-minute first sessions. Forty-five-minute follow-ups. We don't double-book and we don't rotate practitioners between rooms. The schedule on the wall is the schedule we keep.
Show your work.
Every member sees the assessment, the plan, and the exercises in our app. We explain why we picked the modality we picked. Black-box rehab is the easiest way to lose a patient.
Discharge is the goal.
We celebrate when you don't need us. Our practitioners are paid the same whether you book ten sessions or three — so the incentive points the right direction.
Train clinicians like athletes.
Stride practitioners get paid CE time, structured supervision, and quarterly clinical days. Better clinicians make better outcomes. The math isn't complicated.
Eight years, 42K sessions a year.
Eight years of building.
Two physios open the first 1,200-sq-ft Stride clinic on Queen West. Initial roster: physio + RMT only.
Add chiropractic + athletic therapy. Open Yonge & Eglinton. Hire our first non-clinical operations lead.
Pandemic. Pivot to telehealth + at-home recovery programming. Hold all 18 staff salaries through April–June.
Mississauga (Port Credit) opens. Pelvic health practice launches. Annual outcome report goes public for the first time.
Hamilton (Locke St) opens. Concussion-baseline + return-to-play program partnership with three local high schools.
Ottawa (Westboro) + Burlington (Spencer Smith) open within four months. Total roster: 34 clinicians, 6 ops staff.
We're hiring across all five clinics.
Physios, RMTs, chiros, athletic therapists. Above-market rates, paid CE, structured supervision, and a culture that treats clinicians like athletes.
