Joe Box

Physical Therapist

About Joe

Education, experience, and an analytical mind set Joe apart. He’s here to help clients set reachable goals to get their health on track.

While some people attend physio with a clear goal in mind, many do not: Joe’s strength is in setting reachable goals with his clients while providing the guidance to achieve them.

Thorough & engaged

When working with clients, Joe is thorough and engaged. He loves a good diagnostic challenge, and his favourite conditions to treat include chronic stiff necks, shoulder injuries, trochanteric bursitis, and iliotibial band syndrome.

Joe has found his most successful outcomes are a result of treatment that focuses on education and exercise, often augmented with manual therapy and dry needling techniques such as IMS and acupuncture.

An active & focused owner

It’s been said that active people make the best physiotherapists, and in this regard Joe is more than qualified!

Growing up he focused on team sports, especially soccer, baseball, volleyball, and basketball. Today Joe is an avid whitewater and flatwater paddler with 30+ years experience in all types of craft. So if you’re an outrigger or dragon boat paddler with a shoulder or back injury, Joe is the man to see!

Outside of work, if he’s not playing with his daughters you’ll most likely find Joe whitewater kayaking, training in his surfski, ski-touring in the back country, or mountain biking nearby.

Joe Box, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

Featured Review by Ninon Z.

“I have been a patient to [Joe Box] for nearly three years and I have found him attentive, caring and very helpful to my various aches and pains.”

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Joe at a glance

  • Proud prof: Teaches anatomy and physiology to Kinesiology students at VIU
  • Loves sport: Joe played competitive squash, baseball, and soccer, and represented Canada in international military pentathlon
  • Island born: Grew up on a farm near Victoria, moved to Nanaimo to get closer to family and the great outdoors
  • Flying high: Joe flew with the Canadian Airforce as an Air Navigator for 10 years on the Aurora, a Maritime Patrol Aircraft
  • Clinic captain: Opened Pinpoint Physiotherapy & Health, Nanaimo’s largest downtown physiotherapy clinic in 2014
  • Space nerd: In 1997 Joe earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in – of all things – Space Science!

Education & experience

  • Obtained a Master’s of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Alberta in 2008
  • Worked in the hospital system to develop an understanding in areas such as stroke rehabilitation, acute care orthopaedics and medicine, ICU, and geriatric rehab
  • Completed ongoing coursework in intramuscular stimulation (IMS) and dry needling (DN), acupuncture, manual therapy, and geriatric health
  • Obtained additional certification in a variety of dry needling specialties, including Gunn IMS via UBC, dry needling through US-based Dry Needling Institute, and acupuncture from the Acupuncture Foundation of Canada Institute (AFCI)
  • Completed further manual therapy courses including Mulligan Techniques and the Level 2 orthopaedic courses organized by the Canadian Physiotherapy Association

Meet our team

  • Joe Box, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Joe Box

    Physical Therapist

  • Danielle Roberts, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Danielle Roberts

    Physical Therapist

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  • Anna Kania, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Anna Kania

    Physical Therapist

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  • Martin Davies, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Martin Davies

    Physical Therapist

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  • Kayla Larsen, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Kayla Larsen

    Physical Therapist

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  • Dr. Kelly Robertson, Naturopathic Physician at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Dr. Kelly Robertson

    Naturopathic Physician

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  • Tim Muller, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Tim Muller

    Physical Therapist

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  • Shayne Alyward, Physical Therapist at Pinpoint Physiotherapy

    Shayne Alyward

    Physical Therapist

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