After many years as a sole practitioner and clinic owner of physiotherapy clinics on B.C.’s Lower Mainland, Fredric Timothy Samorodin, Registered Physiotherapist is proud to announce that he is joining the therapy team of the Castlegar-based Head 2 Toe Holistic Health Clinic in February 2026. He brings with him many years of experience and innovation as a hands-on “manual” physiotherapist who particularly finds satisfaction in helping patients understand how to get to the roots of their pain and stiffness complaints holistically and gently.
Fred integrates combinations of Craniosacral Therapy, Muscle Energy Techniques, Full Body Fascial Facilitation, Advanced Bowen Therapy, Primal Reflex Release Techniques, Acupuncture, and Osteopathic Manipulation into his practice.
These therapeutic techniques are beneficial in resolving pain and supporting healing throughout the body, including the back, neck, skull, facial bones, pelvis, organs and limbs
Since graduating from LVR in Nelson and a pre-medical Science and Russian major diploma at Selkirk College, Fred went on to earn his Bachelor of Rehabilitation Medicine at U.B.C. (1976) with a combined major in physiotherapy and occupational therapy. He further expanded his professional studies with a year-long preceptorship in Moscow, USSR at the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (1977-1978) concentrating on the study of electroacupuncture with the Institute’s Bioenergetics research group as well as an introduction to the Soviet medical rehabilitation system. He achieved Certification as a Clinical Assistant in Cranio Sacral Therapy teaching but has accumulated a broad range of professional studies in orthopaedic manual physiotherapy that he applies with every patient that he has labelled in his Lower Mainland clinical business profile as “Integrated Craniosacral & Jaw Physiotherapy”.
Fred has developed a unique approach to helping jaw pain problems that, as a physiotherapist allows him to work with discriminating dentists who have understood the contribution physiotherapists have in helping facial pain and jaw problems by working with all areas of the body! Fred was instrumental in heading an advisory committee to the Canadian Physiotherapy Association in the 1990’s to include acupuncture and dry-needling in the national physiotherapy scope of practice.
Since 1981, Fred has continued to work as a physiotherapist in private practice with a growing focus on helping patients with recurring or chronic pain problems by helping patients improve their flexibility and balance not only during their clinic visits, but also by applying a knowledge of the nervous system to understand how, often, using Craniosacral therapy and functional neurology, a patient’s pain areas can improve by working with not only their muscles and joints, but also with the nervous system and not depending totally on medications or only “strengthening” exercises!
Growing up in Taghum, BC in a Doukhobor family, Fred has continued to participate in Doukhobor community activities throughout his adult life, both in the Kootenay’s (SHSS Doukhobor Choir) and in the Lower Mainland Union of Young Doukhobors Choir. With his love of music and singing, Fred has also sung in the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Lower Mainland Doukhobor Choir, the Vancouver Orpheus Male Choir, and the City Soul Choir, to name a few! Fred is the father of two adult children. He has been a regular Zumba Dance Exercise participant in New Westminster for the last decade. He is fluent in Russian and functional French. He has been an avid downhill and Nordic skier and he is awaiting the publication of a collected selection of his poems from his many years of writing poetry –“My Year in Moscow—1977-1978: A Poetic Journal”
