Region’s Practice Lead Team

Our region consists of 5 Advanced Practice Providers delivering care in 7 communities throughout NSM including Barrie, Orillia, Collingwood, Creemore, Midland, Gravenhurst and Ramara.

Region’s Practice Lead Team

*We also have a number of different partnerships to facilitate expedited referrals to other spine surgeons in the region

For more information:
https://www.oakvalleyhealth.ca/lower-back-pain/
https://www.oakvalleyhealth.ca/clinics-departments/surgery/specialty-surgeries/orthopaedic-services/lower-back-pain/

Meet Iriny Jacoub, Physiotherapist, Practice Lead for the Central Region Rapid Access Clinic for Low Back Pain at Oak Valley Health (including Markham Stouffville Hospital and Uxbridge Hospital) and mom of three. Iriny has advanced training in Spine Care, McKenzie training, manual therapy, concussion and vestibular therapy, acupuncture, Neuro-Developmental Treatment/BoBath, David Butler’s Neurodynamics, Pain Physiology and Occupational rehabilitation/WorkWell Functional Testing.

The Central Region Rapid Access Clinic for Low Back Pain covers a large area in the province and we have the largest group of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) to be able to provide patients care close to home. The region encompasses South Simcoe, York region, West and Central North York to the Durham Border. We have developed several partnerships to expedite patient care including EMG/NCS tests, physiatry consultations, pain clinic referral that employ fluoroscopy as well as chronic pain management and with our local emergency departments and urgent community health clinics.

At Oak Valley Health, our compassionate and skilled surgical team performs many different types of orthopaedic surgeries in state-of-the-art operating rooms using the most up-to-date surgical techniques.t Oak Valley Health, our compassionate and skilled surgical team performs many different types of orthopaedic surgeries in state-of-the-art operating rooms using the most up-to-date surgical techniques.

Region’s Practice Lead Team

Henry Candelaria holds a Bachelor of Physical Health and Education from the University of Toronto. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) in 2007.

Henry has extensive expertise and experience managing a variety of musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries and conditions. His focus for the past 12 years has been on the diagnosis and management of spine related complaints, specifically those related to low back pain (LBP) and related conditions. He was one of the original ISAEC clinicians during the pilot program’s initial phase, and has been grateful to have continued to work within this program watching it morph and grow to what it is known as now, the provincial Rapid Access Clinic for Low Back Pain (RAC-LBP).

Henry is proud to work with excellent partners like the regional Central Intake Office and our front line Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in the community, physiotherapists and chiropractors, who are the first contact for patients referred to the program. He is also proud of the relationships established with interventionalists, rheumatology, neurology, and spine surgical specialties to support patients when and if needed. In addition, the breath of community partnerships established through the program to support patients is also a point of pride for him.

Candelaria is confident that your experience within this program will help educate you on your condition, and in working with your primary care provider, will help you improve your ability to better manage it.

Region’s Practice Lead Team

Karen Tsui is an ACPAC trained advanced practice physiotherapist in rheumatology and spine surgical triage, and brings her background in scientific research, project management, and university adjunct professorship to her role as a Practice Lead for the Rapid Access Clinics for Low Back Pain.