HOW OHF STARTED

Operation Human First (OHF) was founded by Canadian physiotherapist and Kinstretch instructor, Alex Murphy. Alex is also the owner/operator of Longevity Physical Therapy in Canada.

OHF was actually born during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic hit Canada, Alex’s in-person Kinstretch classes for first responders, local members of the community, and athletes all moved online (over Zoom).

An influx of requests then began to come in from social media followers around the world to join the Zoom Kinstretch classes. As such, Alex started running additional classes that were open to anyone and everyone. These classes were a hit and people in other time zones who couldn’t always make the live class times work began to request recorded classes.

The recorded classes took off as well, which subsequently lead to even more requests but this time for a subscription that allowed people to continue to receive recorded classes every month going forward.

This is exactly when Operation Human First (OHF) was born, which was referred to as Kinstretch with Alex (KWA) at the time.

The +150 videos from the original Kinstretch with Alex platform now live within a continually growing section of OHF.

KWA evolved into an even more comprehensive platform with the addition of sections that were not specific or exclusive to Kinstretch. In this process, the platform was renamed from Kinstretch with Alex to Operation Human First.

Through seeing physiotherapy clients every day, Alex was noticing patterns in terms of things many people seem to benefit from working on. Alex then began creating and incorporating classes, videos, and programs addressing these common issues into other sections of Operation Human First.

One of the goals of OHF is to address a large gap in the industry created by the lack of tools, information, and direction offered to the general population to improve mobility, joint health, movement capacity, overall knowledge of the body and how people can make their body work for THEM.

Please note:
Even though Operation Human First was created and is operated by a physical therapist, OHF is not a type of or a substitute for physical therapy.