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About
Dr Ken Mueller
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born and raised in Mississauga Ontario and from an early age demonstrated both
an interest in health care, and an aptitude in figure skating.
Commuting from Mississauga to North York for most of his high school
education to attend Earl Haig Secondary School
in their Academic Program for Gifted Athletes (APGA),
and training at Sport Seneca under the tutelage of Robert O'Toole and Lori
Nichol, Ken prepared
himself for National level competition and a move to Montreal in 1993 where he
changed coaches and pairs partners to capture the novice national pairs title in
1994.
Throughout his amateur and professional career he had the good fortune of
working with internationally recognized coaches and choreographers including but
not limited to Paul Wirtz, Kelly Johnson,
Marina Zoueva, Frank Carol, Irina Rodnina, David Wilson and Jean-Pierre Boulais,
and skated in shows with athletes including Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler,
Sebastian Brittain and Jayson Denomee.
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From 1994
–1997 Ken was a member of the Junior National Team where he both developed as
a skater and learned valuable practical and academic lessons as he concurrently
continued his formal education. In
1998 Ken retired from competitive skating to focus more completely on his
studies, but continued his skating affiliation by coaching, skating
professionally with “Les Ballets sur Glaces” de Montreal, and writing sports
science articles for “Keeping in Touch” magazine a national skating
publication distributed across Canada. For
more information on Dr. Mueller's skating history please
click here.
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Completing
a DEC (CeGep degree) in Health Science from Champlain
Regional College in 1996 he completed one year of studies in as a
physiology major at McGill University in 1996/97 before transferring to
Concordia University to pursue a BSc in Exercise Science and a specialization in
Athletic Therapy. In that program he
partook in courses such as sport specific emergency care, 2 rehabilitation
courses, strength and conditioning for athletes, sports nutrition, principles of
athletic therapy (including skills such as athletic taping) and therapeutic
modalities to name a few. Those in
class and laboratory experiences were coupled to a field internship acting as
the athletic trainer for the Greenfield Park Packers Junior A football team, and
a clinical internship with Action Sport
Physio. A side benefit of his 7
years as a Quebec resident was the acquisition of French as a second language.
He graduated from Concordia with academic distinction in 2000 and moved
back to Toronto to begin his 4 year Chiropractic degree at the Canadian Memorial
Chiropractic College (CMCC).
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During
his education at CMCC, he continued to coach skating, and utilizing the skills
learned at Concordia, developed discipline and level appropriate off ice
programs for skaters in Toronto and Montreal where he continued to coach in the
summer of 2001 and 2002. It was
during those experiences that he began to hone the concepts that he now utilize
for many patients in condition specific rehabilitation exercise prescription
including, but not limited to, core stability.
He also, in his graduating year of 2004, completed a research project
with his colleagues on skating injuries, training practice and health care
preferences of competitive skaters in Central Ontario.
He
additionally graduated from the Contemporary Medical Acupuncture Program
at McMaster University in Hamilton and has attended many continuing
education lectures on topics related to functional rehabilitation and
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Since
graduation Ken has organized and instructed at an international seminar
for Sports Aerobics hosted by Gymnastics Ontario as a lifting technical
consultant, as the Assistant Medical Coordinator and part of the on site medical
staff at the East/West
Challenge event (National Qualifiers) for Skate Canada (2004, 2005, 2007), as
part of the medical staff at the Junior National Championships for Skate
Canada (2006), lectured on injury
prevention techniques and off ice training to the skater development
program with Skate Ontario (2005, 2006), and professionally lectured at multiple
locations on topics ranging from proactive health care to safe lifting
techniques around Ontario and in locations as far reaching as Bergen
Norway.
He
is currently working as an associate chiropractor at "The Ridge"
in Mississauga and as the first chiropractor at the Queen Spadina Medical
Center, a medical clinic in Toronto. He additionally
conducts independent evaluations for individuals who have been in recent
car accidents to educate them on reintegration into activities of daily
living and getting back to work minimizing risk of prolonged disability. |
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