Meet Our Team: Paul Mazur

Paul Mazur, Registered Physiotherapist
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Role: Registered Physiotherapist

Paul is one of our two amazing physiotherapists here at Physio Sport Med.  His full bio can be found here:  http://physiosportmed.ca/practitioners.html

Education, certification, and courses:
BA (honours)
Masters in Physiotherapy (MPT)
Diploma of Advanced Manual and Manipulative Physiotherapy
Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy
Acupuncture Foundation of Canada

1.    What is your favourite part of your job?
I love the clinic environment.  I'm a bit of a fixer, I see myself as a human mechanic.  I enjoy being able to figure out what is wrong and working on a plan with the patient as well as other practitioners as needed to fix the problem and get the person back to doing what they love.

2.    What is your favourite part of the body to treat?
 can't say I have a favorite, although I really enjoy a fixated joint in the spine and ACL rehab.  However, every injury has a story or a process.  I enjoy learning the whole story of how something happened and why it is the way it is.

3.    What is your favourite sport to watch?  
It’s too hard to say.  Any game of the big 4 during the playoffs, usually hockey in the winter, baseball in the summer, football on Sundays, and mixed martial arts when I'm interested in a specific fighter.  I love that baseball provides the comfort of always being there since there are 162 regular season games for any given team.

4.    What is your favourite sport to do/play?
I love to snowboard and ski in the winter.  I started skiing when I was 6, but switched to snowboarding after a torn meniscus in my early 30's.  During the spring/summer/fall I love to golf, cycle, and rollerblade.  I also lift weights and box pretty regularly to stay in shape.  

5.    Have you ever needed sports medicine or therapy?
Yes.  I’ve had a right labrum tear in the shoulder, right hip impingement, and a right lateral meniscus tear in the knee.   All injuries actually happened as I was in physio school, imagine that.  Took some time but I rehabbed them all.  Mental note: do not go trekking with a torn meniscus, really bad idea.

6.    If you could sing one song on American Idol, what would it be?  
I don't sing.  Period.

7.    If you were a crayon in a Crayola box, what colour would you be and why?  
Navy Blue.  It reminds me of the ocean water, soothing.

8.    Would you rather fight 1 horse sized duck, or 100 duck sized horses?  
The odds are not in my favor in either scenario.  A horse sized duck would be awesome to see, but you must understand that this is a mutant.  Although the duck sized horses seem like a better option, I would imagine that they would attack in a pack.  In the end, I would take the giant duck.  I have better odds one on one - but I'm not fighting in water.

9.    What cartoon character best represents you.            
Muttley - a little mischievous, but overall harmless with an infectious laugh.