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Glenn Strathdee:
Post Polio Syndrome
The late effects of having contracted polio as a child caught up with Glenn in the 1980s when he was diagnosed with post polio syndrome. After receiving respiratory care and sleep studies to help him manage his condition, he can’t overstate how beneficial West Park has been in keeping him alive in recent years.


Prosthetics and Orthotics Services

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West Park offers a broad range of services designed to respond to the growing demand for personalized therapy, wellness services, specialized assessments and examinations and state-of-the-art assistive devices.
The following services are provided through West Park’s unique Healthcare Enterprises division.
Assessment Centre
West Park’s Assessment Centre offers a variety of comprehensive assessment services aimed at providing impartial and defensible third-party opinions for the resolution of insurance matters.
West Park Rehab Plus (formerly Pro Active Healthcare)
West Park Rehab Plus is an on-site outpatient rehabilitation and wellness clinic providing integrated, multi-disciplinary and collaborative treatment within one facility. It provides results-oriented care through appropriate, timely and personalized treatments specific to patients’ individual therapeutic needs. Services are OHIP-covered and fee-based, depending on the program/service.
Prosthetics and Orthotics
The staff of West Park’s Prosthetic and Orthotic Service design and build prostheses (artificial limbs) and orthoses (orthopaedic braces) to improve the quality of life and independence of amputees.
Sleep Laboratory
West Park is home to the only Sleep Laboratory in the Greater Toronto Area that provides diagnostic sleep and pulmonary function testing for ventilator dependent individuals and those with complex medical conditions.
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