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Chronicles on our site was made possible by Orienteering North America (ONA) the official publication of the United States Orienteering
Federation. ONA covers navigation sports and
related topics in North America. For
question about Orienteering North America magazine please contact Donna Fluegel.
 The Injury Chronicles were written and
illustrated by Marie-Catherine Bruno, BScPT, Cped(C)
Marie-Catherine grew up in rural Quebec in the hills of
the Laurentians. By the age of 5 she was already on
cross-country skis. “I remember trying to keep up to my dad on my little
plastic skis! It didn’t take much time for him to buy me real skis!” I skied
(both downhill and Nordic) and played volleyball until the age of 20 where
repetitive shoulder injuries kept me out of both sports. That’s when I
discovered orienteering. I had always loved maps, so that seemed like the
best sport for me! The only problem was that although I could ski, I could
not run at all. I worked on my running religiously, but it took forever to
even get decent at it (I was born with a congenital defect of the hips, so
running is very painful). It is probably because of all those health problems
that she decided to study in the medical field.
At age 22 she graduates from McGill University
(Montreal, Quebec) in Physiotherapy. Soon after
graduation she starts specialising in Sports
Medicine and Manual Therapy techniques.
“I have always liked the pressure from trying to heal an athlete fast
when there is an important competition coming up” says Bruno. As a student,
Bruno worked as a bootfitter in a ski shop. After
years of physiotherapy she started missing her old bootfitting
job and went back to it part time. “That’s when I realised
that I could combine both my expertise as a physio
and my years of training as a bootfitter”. “I
started doing a lot of realignment of the skeleton using proper orthotics.” Marie-Catherine went back to school and came
out with a certification in Pedorthics and is now a
Certified Pedorthist as well as a Registered
Physical Therapist.
Now when she is not working in
her own orthotic laboratory (The Sole Mate – Custom
Orthotics & Footbeds
in the mountains of British-Columbia) she designs training programs for other
orienteers (she has an unfinished Masters Degree in
Exercise Physiology), nordic skis and orienteers. She has represented Canada on many WOC teams and WC Teams but her true love remains
ski-orienteering.
Marie-Catherine Bruno, BScPT,
CPed(C)
The Sole Mate - Custom Orthotics
and Footbeds
204-3303
Coldstream Avenue
Vernon BC V1T 1Y1
250.542.8483
info@thesolemate.com
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