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Therapeutic care
Individual care for chronic pain, old injuries, tension, and changing mobility needs—with treatment choices explained along the way.
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Functional Mobility and Health in Blackfalds
Care, education & practical change
Your body is giving you information.
Pain can feel complicated—especially when it has been building for years. At Functional Mobility and Health, the goal is not simply to quiet one sore spot. It is to help you understand the larger pattern and find manageable ways forward.
Every session begins with listening: to your history, your day-to-day life, and what your body is communicating now.
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Movement education
Gentle, practical ways to notice your patterns and reconnect with movement through clinical somatics and body awareness.
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Workplace wellness
Approachable education for teams who want to understand everyday strain, support movement, and work more comfortably.
Planning your appointment
Insurance & direct billing
Massage with Jessica
Jessica offers direct billing to the majority of insurance companies for massage appointments.
Massage with Jennifer
Jennifer currently offers direct billing to Sun Life and Blue Cross only. You can submit her invoices to your insurance company for reimbursement.
Osteopathy appointments
Direct billing is currently unavailable for osteopathy appointments with either practitioner.
Additional therapies
More ways to support your care.
These services may be used on their own or thoughtfully incorporated into a broader treatment plan. We will discuss what is appropriate for your history, comfort, and goals.
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Ionic foot bath
A quiet, restorative foot-bath experience offered as part of a supportive wellness routine.
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Low-level laser therapy
Non-invasive light therapy used to support tissue recovery, comfort, and the body’s natural healing response.
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Shockwave therapy
Focused acoustic-wave treatment for persistent soft-tissue concerns, restricted movement, and stubborn areas of discomfort.
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Athletic taping
Supportive taping selected to complement movement, activity, joint comfort, and recovery.
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Somatic movement therapy
Gentle, guided movement that builds body awareness and helps reduce habitual muscular tension.
A clearer way forward
Look beyond the symptom.
Your comfort, movement, stress, sleep, old injuries, and daily demands do not exist in isolation. We look at how those pieces connect—then choose a starting point that feels useful and realistic.
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Listen to the signals and establish your baseline.
02Understand
Connect the history, habits, and movement patterns.
03Respond
Choose gentle, practical actions that fit your life.
Meet your practitioner
Jennifer Quinlan
RMT · MOT · Clinical Somatics Instructor · Registered Yoga Teacher
More than a decade of hands-on care, grounded in curiosity and respect for the person in front of me.
Jennifer is a registered and insured Massage Therapist and Manual Osteopathic Therapist who specializes in chronic pain, mobility, and client education. She has worked in private practice, trained therapists, managed clinical teams, and currently serves as Vice President of the Canadian Massage and Manual Osteopathy Therapists Association.
Her work brings together manual therapy, clinical somatics, movement education, shockwave, low-level laser therapy, and a practical understanding of the demands of everyday life.
Our practitioners
Care from people who listen.
Jennifer Quinlan
RMT · MOT · Clinical Somatics Instructor · Registered Yoga Teacher
PractitionerJessica Miller
RMT · MOT · Kinesiology background
Back on Saturdays · 10 am–5 pm
Book with Jessica ↗
Over the past five years, Jessica has combined her kinesiology background and massage therapy knowledge to support clients through recovery. She offers both therapeutic and relaxation massage, drawing on hydrotherapy, joint mobilization, cupping, myofascial techniques, and trigger point therapy.
Jessica recently graduated from the Manual Osteopathic College of Canada and earned her MOT designation. This education allows her to take a broader, whole-body approach—looking beyond the point of pain to understand compensation patterns and support recovery.
“Healing doesn’t simply start and end at the point of pain. It also means treating where the body has compensated for an injury, understanding where else it has been affected, and looking for the root cause of symptoms.”
Grow your practice with us.
We are looking for an RMT or MOT and are open to hearing from other practitioners whose experience and approach may be a strong fit for our clinic.
Call to learn more
Learn with Jennifer · Presale open
Decode Your Body
Awareness Before Correction.
Starts $199 presale
Learn to notice your body’s signals, gather context, recognize daily patterns, and choose small, safe responses that fit your life. Gentle movement and practical reflection help you find your own next useful step.
As the holiday season gets busy, make room to check in with yourself, respect your capacity, and build habits you can return to.
You can join at any time and work at your own pace. If online meetups are offered, their topics may be a little ahead of or behind your place in the lessons when you join later.
For everyday life, groups & workplaces
Learning that meets you where you are.
Explore practical ergonomics, seniors’ somatic movement and posture, Mommy & Me, and classes tailored to your group.
Find us
Located with the Blackfalds Public Library.
Functional Mobility and Health5302 Broadway Avenue
Blackfalds, AB T0M 0J0
We are inside the Eagle Builders Centre, in the same building as the Blackfalds Public Library.
Arriving when the doors are locked?
Get directionsPlease use the doorbell on the Functional Mobility and Health sign at the front entrance, and we will let you in.
A thoughtful place to begin
You do not have to solve everything at once.
Start with the next useful step.
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