Our story
Built on one rule
Stride exists because our founder spent five years in a clinic where visits were twenty minutes, patients were double-booked, and nobody ever got discharged. This is the ten-year argument against all three.
The 45-minute rebellion
In 2016, physiotherapist Nadia Osei signed a lease on a 900-square-foot walk-up in Mount Pleasant, bought two treatment tables, and wrote one rule on the whiteboard: 45-minute visits, never double-booked. Every decision since — the strength floor, the shared chart, the published fee list, the discharge-is-the-goal philosophy — is that rule with compound interest.
Today Stride is eight practitioners across four disciplines and two clinics. The whiteboard is gone. The rule isn't.
And because movement doesn't stop at the clinic door, neither do we: free baseline-testing nights for youth teams every fall, sponsored aid stations at North Shore trail races, and a community running-injury clinic one morning a month.
Moving better isn't just for athletes — it's for every season of a life.
2016 → today
Ten years, one chart
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2016: Nadia Osei and two treatment tables open the first Stride in a 900 sq ft Mount Pleasant walk-up. Rule one, from day one: 45-minute visits, never double-booked.
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2018: The strength floor arrives — a rack, a turf lane, and the idea that rehab should end where training begins.
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2019: Athletic therapy joins the roster. Stride starts running free baseline testing nights for local youth teams.
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2022: Lonsdale opens on the North Shore, five minutes from the trailheads that supply half its caseload.
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2024: The concussion program launches with a light-controlled assessment suite and a protocol built by Priya Raman.
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2026: Eight practitioners, four disciplines, two clinics, one chart. Same rule as 2016.
What we stand on
Four things we won't bend on
Assessment before opinion
We measure before we diagnose, and we re-measure before we claim progress. Baselines beat vibes.
Discharge is the goal
A rehab plan that never ends isn't care, it's a subscription. We're proudest of the patients who don't need us anymore.
One team, one chart
Physio, chiro, massage, and athletic therapy share one record and one plan. You never re-explain your injury in our building.
No mystery invoices
Every fee is on the website, every plan comes with an expected cost, and direct billing happens before you leave.
Be our next graduate //
Ten years of patients have walked out of Stride stronger than they walked in. Book an assessment and start your own countdown to discharge.