Author: Shari Macdonald
Born: 1970
Bio: Shari Lynn Macdonald, BScPT, CAFCI, Gunn IMS, is the owner of Liv Activ Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Practice and a registered physical therapist. She is currently a board member of Run Calgary as well as a former board member of Sport Physiotherapy Canada. She has over 20 years clinical experience working in orthopaedic private practice in Calgary. You can find her consulting at Innovative Sport Medicine: Mayfair.

Her clinical practice focuses on addressing poor biomechanical movement patterns, imbalances in strength and flexibility and improving core stability to keep an active population doing what they love. Her special interest is assessing running biomechanics and determining the factors that are contributing to the root cause of running related injuries. Her treatments and practices include 3D Gait Analysis, Full 3D Gait Analysis, Biomechanical 3D Gait Analysis, Physiotherapy Treatment and Rehabilitation, Acupuncture, and Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS).

She has completed several post graduate certifications including sport physiotherapy, acupuncture, GunnIMS, and intermediate manual therapy, as well as an MSc in Biomechanics. She coauthored the book *Running Mechanics and Gait Analysis* with Reed Ferber in 2014.

Source: [Liv Activ](https://www.livactiv.ca/)