Jill Werner’s ‘lucky’ break landed her at the Pelino Athletic Performance Centre.

The centre’s senior physiotherapist with a special interest in concussion and brain injury broke her wrist in 2018 while living in California. When she was back in Niagara visiting her parents, she went online looking for someone who had a PEMF (Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field) machine. The PEMF machine was something she knew would help heal her wrist.

“I googled and he (Joe Pelino) had one at his practice at Lake St and the QEW. I went in there, met him and we started talking,” the 54-year-old St. Catharines native said. “He was working with Ben Fox, who had suffered a stroke and I casually told him my specialty with stroke and brain injury. We started talking about that and we stayed in touch.”

Werner moved back to Niagara in October 2020 because she wanted to be around her parents in their golden years and her and Pelino reconnected.

“He told me it (the clinic) was happening and they were building it. I was in.”

It was an easy choice for Werner.

“He’s really open minded and was interested in a lot of the stuff I was finding in California.”

In California, she ran her own company, providing patients private treatment in their homes using advanced neuro-therapy skills. Werner worked closely with top doctors from UCLA and Cedars Sinai, including the latter for three years in the inpatient acute rehab department in Beverly Hills. She has successfully treated many high-profile actors, musicians, athletes, and executives and is often asked to travel significant distances to provide her sought after services.

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