Tracy Banister

Pediatric Physiotherapist

Tracy believes movement is the key to health and happiness. So, let’s get you moving!

She believes movement is the best medicine and works with you to help you move to your full potential. Her treatment options include manual therapy, functional dry needling, taping, and custom home exercise programs.

Tracy is one of the only physiotherapists between Lethbridge and Calgary who sees FSCD clients.  Please contact her on via her private and confidential email for details:  tracy@activebalancehealth.ca

Fun Fact

Tracy spent many years training and competing in dance. After Tracy graduated from dancing at her studio, she moved on to dance and cheer for the Calgary Roughnecks and The Calgary Stampeders.

About Tracy

Tracy enjoys living on an acreage with her husband, 2 children, and animals just east of Okotoks. She is thrilled to be working within her community. In her spare time, Tracy enjoys spending time with her family, golfing, snowboarding, dancing, and vacationing in the Shuswap during the summer.

Education

Tracy Banister graduated from the University of Alberta with a Masters in Physical Therapy in 2015 and has been treating pediatrics since the beginning of her career. Tracy has always had a passion for working with kids as she spent several years teaching dance to children.

Prior to physiotherapy, Tracy graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Kinesiology. She spent the year prior to physiotherapy school working with exercise and breast cancer research as a research assistant at the University of Calgary. Outside of pediatrics, Tracy also has experience treating adults in private practice as well as in Neurology at the Foothills Hospital.

On-going learning is a passion for Tracy. She has taken additional courses for gross motor development, torticollis and plagiocephaly, pediatric gait, pediatric toe walking, functional dry needling, and her Orthopedic Level 1 manual therapy.

Specialties / Special Focus

Tracy offers pediatric physiotherapy services for:

  • Torticollis & plagiocephaly
  • Gross motor delay
  • Milestone checkups
  • Gait assessments
  • Orthopedic & sports injuries
  • Orthopedics & congenital conditions
  • Neuromotor & neuromuscular conditions

Book a complementary Meet & Greet appointment today to find out if Tracy is the right fit for you. These, along with your First Visits and Follow-Up appointments, can easily be booked online.