Rehab with purpose. Return with confidence.
Rehabilitation at Ethos goes beyond treating symptoms. Through individualized assessment and ongoing evaluation, we identify and address the underlying factors contributing to injury, guiding each athlete through a progressive, purposeful rehabilitation process.
We get athletes back to performance stronger, faster and more confident in their ability to perform without fear of reinjury.
Because returning to sport is one milestone. Returning ready to perform is another.
Our Data
0 Major knee injuries
Reported across the last decade of working with athletes.
100% ACL & knee surgery success rate
Our reported track record in ACL and knee rehabilitation.
We rehab once. And once only.
These outcomes reflect our experience and inform our continued work to improve rehabilitation and return-to-sport outcomes.
Rehabilitation Beyond Recovery
Injury remains one of the biggest challenges in amateur and profession sport, particularly when it comes to knee and hamstring injuries. But injuries are rarely just a matter of bad luck. They can result from a complex interaction of physical factors, including strength, mobility, stability, muscular imbalances and the movement patterns and positions athletes encounter in sport.
At Ethos, our specialized methodology looks beyond the injured area to understand and address the factors that may contribute to injury, through individualized assessment and ongoing evaluation. We then identify areas that need attention and develop a targeted approach to rehabilitation, with the goal of addressing these factors before they become bigger problems and reducing the risk of future injury.
If you have an injury you’re struggling to solve or want to ensure your rehab guarantees you go back into your sport better than ever, importantly without fearing reinjury, we’re your program. We fully solve your muscular imbalances, mobility and stability needs and optimize your coordination both in the gym and most importantly in your sport.
Teams and organizations our athletes have represented
What our athletes say
Dr. Aaron Nardella
Canadian Sports Institute Olympic Chiropractor
I’ve worked with Dan and his team for over 5 years now and highly recommend him. He has worked with my son’s soccer team and I have also sent many of my athletic patients to him. He has the expertise and education to provide elite strength and conditioning for a large variety of sports. Dan is excellent at breaking down your mechanics and building you back stronger.
Mya Jones
Calgary Wild
Dan’s approach is a step ahead of any other form of physical training that I have ever done. He is training athletes with techniques that are extremely effective and have helped me personally overcome a long lasting injury. Before I came to him, I was struggling at figuring out how to get back into play. Even with extra training and help I continued to get re-injured. But within a few months of training I was stronger than ever before and back to the run of play.
Cole Davis
Canada Rugby
Dan Balsom provides cutting edge athletic development training, and incorporates sport-specific aspects to every session. Along with successful injury rehabilitation, he has helped me become a bigger, faster, and stronger rugby player. I always thank Dan for helping me get to where I am today!
Anna Casavant
Calgary Blizzard ADPL
We couldn’t be happier with our daughter’s experience at Ethos Performance. She has been working with Dan for just over a year after he was highly recommended by Dr. Aaron Nardella to help her return to the field following an injury.
Over the past year, we’ve seen such a positive change. She has fully recovered from her injury and is now stronger, faster, more balanced, and much more confident on the field. Her speed and change of direction have improved significantly, and she has developed so much more power and stability. Dan has been a huge part of her recovery and development. His knowledge, dedication, and personalized approach have made a real difference.
Korey Jenkins
Canada Cup 2022 Silver Medalist
- UBCO Women's Volleyball Rookie of the Year
- UBCO Women's Volleyball Student Athlete of the Year
When I suffered a serious back injury at university a couple of years ago, Jessica stepped in with rehab and modified training to my abilities. She kept me on track toward my goals and motivated me through a challenging, year-long recovery. Jessica’s fundamental approach and the focus she maintained throughout my extended absence from sport was essential to my long-term recovery and return to play. Today, I’m able to play pain-free and without restrictions.
Jessica is an exceptional all-round trainer who adapts to my physical, mental, and emotional needs while challenging me in ways I need most. Ethos Performance takes a knowledgeable and thoughtful approach to training high-performance athletes, with a genuine effort to understand the demands of each sport. Jessica consistently designs programs that build strong fundamentals and sound movement patterns while delivering competitive sports-specific results.
There is no doubt that Jessica has been an important key to my success as a university athlete. Her guidance has helped me navigate the ups and downs of competitive sport, stay in the game, and maximize performance along the way.
The goal is more than returning
Back to sport is not the same as back to performance.
Being cleared to play is an important milestone, but it isn’t the only measure of a successful rehab. We prepare athletes not only to meet the demands of their sport, but to return performing beyond their pre-injury level, with the confidence to compete.
A purposeful path back to performance.
​Every injury, athlete and return-to-sport goal is different. Our process is tailored to the individual, with assessment and ongoing evaluation guiding each stage of rehabilitation. We work collaboratively with athletes, parents, rehabilitation providers and sport coaches to support a coordination progression back to competition.
01 Assess
Begin with a complimentary consultation to understand your injury, rehabilitation history, sport-specific demands and goals. A tailored assessment then examines your current symptoms, movement quality, strength, stability and other relevant physical factors to identify priorities for rehabilitation, using VALD equipment.
02 Rebuild
We develop an individualized program using evidence-informed programming and specialized coaching. Training addresses the limitations identified through assessment while rebuilding strength, mobility, stability and the physical capacity needed to progress.
03 Progress
As your capabilities improve, we progressively increase training demands, developing the speed, power, agility and sport-specific movement skills required for competition. Regular check-ins help keep the athlete, family and rehabilitation team aligned throughout the process.
04 Evaluate Readiness
We assess movement quality, strength, stability and physical readiness alongside dynamic, sport-specific assessments, including on-field testing using Photon Sports radar and video assessment technology. These findings help guide decisions about readiness to return to sport and identify any remaining areas requiring development.
Experience that informs our approach.
Our rehabilitation work has been shaped by more than a decade of practical experience working with athletes and individuals recovering from injury. Knee rehabilitation, particularly ACL recovery, has been a significant focus of our work and continues to inform our interest in the relationship between muscular imbalances, movement quality, and performance.
We continue to build on that experience through a deeper investigation of how rehabilitation and physical preparation can be improved across the board.
Your next stage starts here.
Whether you’re recovering from an injury, working toward a return to sport, or looking to rebuild the physical capacity you’ve lost, the first step is understanding where you are and what you need.
Let’s start a conversation about your needs, your goals, and how we can help you move forward.