Certified Work Capacity Evaluator (CWCE)
Dip PT, B.Sc. (Zoology)

Vanita is the owner of The Classic Therapy Group Inc. She is a practicing clinician, a medico-legal assessor, and the general manager overseeing all of the company operations. Vanita is a duly qualified member of Nova Scotia College of Physiotherapists and College of Physiotherapists of New Brunswick, in good standing with both.

Vanita graduated with Diploma in Physiotherapy from IPH, New Delhi India in 1983. For a period of next six years, Vanita worked in a variety of hospital and private physiotherapy clinics in India, gaining  extensive experience in treating orthopedic and neurological conditions. In 1987, Vanita assumed the position of Department Head of the Physiotherapy unit at World University Health Centre, University of Delhi. In this role, Vanita and her team were dedicated to the physiotherapy management of injuries sustained by Delhi University students (a large variety of athletes) as well as providing physiotherapy services to all the staff members of the University.

In October of 1989, Vanita and her family immigrated to Canada. Vanita calls Glace Bay in Cape Breton her “New Home,” as this is where her first job was on arrival in Canada. She and her family were welcomed with open arms in Glace Bay. Vanita spent the next two years working in the area before moving permanently to Halifax in 1991.

In January 1994, Vanita took ownership of Renova Physiotherapy Clinic – Armdale (Halifax). By January 2002, Classic Managed Care & Rehabilitation Services Inc. was born, with the focus on medico-legal assessments and industrial rehabilitation services. In the years that followed, Classic Physiotherapy and Work Rehabilitation expanded to include five clinics, four in NS and one in Campbellton, NB; and a large Community- based OT and PT services model including over 25 Long Term Care contracts. Vanita and dedicated team of professionals worked tirelessly to grow the business to include several speciality contracts such as providing OT services to children of a Nova Scotia First Nation community, OT and PT services to our Veterans in their homes and in our clinics and providing PT services under Federal contracts to the inmates of Springhill Penitentiary and Women’s prison in Truro, NS.

Over the span of over 43 years of physiotherapy practice, Vanita has consistently enrolled in ongoing continuing education to further her skills and enhance her knowledge for client-centered, evidence-based clinical practice. She has trained in the field of Functional Assessments and Life Care Planning (Cost of Future Care) with Roy Matheson & Associates (RMA). Vanita received her certification as a Certified Work Capacity Evaluator (CWCE 900576, Matheson) in 2004. She has performed hundreds of Functional Abilities Evaluations and Cost of Future Care assessments throughout her career. Vanita has performed a large number of medico-legal assessments (Accident Benefits, LTD, Workers’ Compensation, Third-Party claims) and has been sworn in as an Expert Witness in the Supreme Courts of NS, BC & PEI, and in Moncton (NB) Courts.

Vanita is listed in Nova Scotia Government’s Register of Injury Management Consultants.

As a business owner, Vanita has always focused on building professional relationships, and she has immense respect for each and every employee or associate of her Company. She believes in teamwork with the primary goal of helping Classic’s clients by providing excellent professional services with empathy, compassion, and respect towards them.

When not at work, Vanita loves to travel with her family and friends. She socializes with a close-knit circle of fun and vibrant friends. Vanita is grateful for the precious family she has – a loving and supportive husband, an amazing daughter who is a pediatric haematology-oncologist, a fantastic son who works as a Disability Management Consultant, and a wonderful daughter in law who is lawyer.