Linda has been a lecturer for NCORE since 2015, a Tai Chi Master and founder of the International Tai Chi Alliance (ITCA), an organisation dedicated to improving the quality of training of Tai Chi and Qigong for Health Care professionals. The UK representative of the International Medical Tai Chi and Qigong Association (iMTQA), Linda has taught Tai Chi and Qigong for over 35 years worldwide. An award winner of HRH The Prince of Wales Award for Integrated Approaches to Care 2017 using Tai Chi, currently Linda is collaborating with the Hanfei International Tai Chi Centre in Ningbo, China which has a prestigious Tai Chi heritage and links to Nottingham University.
Linda spent her early career following her dream of becoming an Olympic Ice Dancer. In parallel to this and to fund the Ice Dance training Linda pursued a career within Dentistry, before becoming more interested in Complementary Health. Currently Linda runs a busy Clinical Practice and at weekends teaches Tai Chi and Qigong.
Linda now dedicates and shares her knowledge of Tai Chi and Qigong for the benefit of others
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I teach all levels of BBTA courses extensively across the UK (currently increasing internationally). BBTA is an organisation of Tutors in the UK specialising in teaching neurological post graduate courses in the UK and overseas.
Neurological rehabilitation has always been a focus in my career, since 2007 I have been a Clinical Director at Indigo Rehab Physiotherapy, a specialist private practice focused on rehabilitation of neurological clients.
Since 2009 I have been a Clinical Lead (8a) Physiotherapist, this role is a Health Board wide and focused on complex clinical caseload, teaching and service development within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (Line manager: Sarah.Carrington@wales.nhs.uk).
Courses affiliated with this trainer are:
Indigo rehab Physiotherapy Practice
Studio B,
Treowen House,
LLanover Business Centre,
Llanover,
Abergavenny
NP79HA
www.indigorehab.co.uk
www.BBTA.org.uk
Email: sue@indigorehab.co.uk
Telephone: 07775777808 or 01873880884
Twitter: @indigorehab
Marc graduated as a Physiotherapist from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain in 2011. In 2015, he took up a post as Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist In northern Italy to work in the Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation Centre.
In 2018, Marc was awarded a Master of Science Degree in Health Science Research at Maastricht University in The Netherlands. His thesis focused on evaluating and characterizing changes in inter-joint coordination in post-stroke patients in collaboration with McGill University in Canada. Since 2019 Marc has been a Senior Physiotherapist in the Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Complex Cancer Late Effects services in Bath.
Clinically, he has a strong background in the treatment of long-term complex conditions including neurological and chronic pain conditions, orthopaedics and post-cancer rehabilitation. His research interests focus on exploring the relationship between cognition, human movement and pain and he has been recently awarded a grant to study the effects of Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation in people living with CRPS. Academically, he recently took a position of Associate Lecturer at Cardiff University in collaborating with the development, delivery and evaluation of courses for BSc, Pre-registration MSc and MSc programs. He is Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation instructor recognized by the International Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation Association.
Courses affiliated with this trainer are:
• FREE 2 HOUR VIRTUAL EVENT - The Bases of Sensory Retraining Methods for Motor Recovery an Introduction to Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation.
• An overview to Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation: A sensorimotor approach for motor recovery in patients with neurological conditions.
You can find Marc on Twitter (@PiqueBatalla)
Based in London, Tim is a Principal NOI instructor, travelling globally to present courses and to consult on best practice in hospitals and clinics.
Tim is the lead physiotherapist and co-founder of Pain and Performance – an organisation with a special interest in the treatment and education of people suffering complex and persistent pain states. He is also is the co-owner of Le Pub Scientifique – a live learning organisation/partnership delivering informal events about pain, health and wellbeing in London and Amsterdam.
Tim has a Masters in Pain: Science and Society from King’s College London, has published book chapters and research on graded motor imagery and body perception, and has written and developed many postgraduate education courses for both Pain and Performance and NOI.
James qualified as a physiotherapist from Keele University in 1998. Professionally, he has gained comprehensive clinical and managerial experience through his career structure to date, in the UK and abroad.
He has been in his current role as an advanced practice shoulder and elbow physiotherapist for the last 5 years. This role sees James working alongside consultant colleagues in clinic assessing and managing the wide variety of patient referrals received from a number of sources. This role also sees James provide specialist physiotherapy to complex patients in the outpatient environment and utilise MSK ultrasound and injection therapy skills to assess and manage patients.
James also provides specialist upper limb clinics for the musculoskeletal pathway in primary care as part of the local integrated care system.
Prior to this he worked for fifteen years at the Nottingham Shoulder and Elbow Unit, the last eight years of which, as the physiotherapy team lead.
James is an associate lecturer on the postgraduate musculoskeletal ultrasound program at Derby University and also sits on the education committee of the British Shoulder and Elbow Society as an AHP representative.
James completed his MSc in sports medicine in 2008 at Nottingham University, while in 2016 completed a PG Cert in musculoskeletal ultrasound at Bournemouth University and in 2020 completed the nonmedical prescribing course at Sheffield Hallam University.
James's expertise has seen him present work nationally at physiouk and internationally at the world shoulder congress in Brazil, Japan and South Korea. He has been fortunate enough to publish peer reviewed work on the shoulder and is currently a reviewer for the shoulder and elbow journal.
Personally, James is a keen follower of sport and enjoys reading on a variety of subjects and travelling.
Catherine is a qualified barrister with 14 years' experience of civil law practice. Catherine specialised in personal injury, industrial disease and clinical negligence matters. She has had extensive experience of witness handling at trial, with both expert and lay witnesses. As one of the Bond Solon's lead trainer, Catherine regularly delivers healthcare records on trial courses to health clients and Witness Familiarisation sessions for lay and expert witnesses.
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Debbie qualified as a Clinical Scientist in Audiology in 2003. She led the adult Diagnostic Audiovestibular Services at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust for 10 years before taking up an Audiology lectureship at Manchester University in October 2015.
In her academic work she teaches at BSc, MSc and doctoral level as well as supervising Masters-level dissertations.
In her clinical work her specialist area of interest is the rehabilitation of patients with persistent or episodic dizziness using CBT and mindfulness techniques. She is a qualified mindfulness teacher.
Debbie is also interested in raising awareness of vestibular disorders in patients of all ages, and in optimizing pathways and resources for patient’s timely diagnosis and management.
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Introduction to Mindfulness as a Health Care Intervention
Will graduated with distinction as an Occupational Therapist from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia in 1996 and worked initially for an equipment and environmental design charity before moving to the United Kingdom in 1998, where he worked as a Senior Occupational Therapist for Tower Hamlets Social Services with adults with disabilities.
In 2002 he took up a post as the Senior Occupational Therapist for HIV and Immune Disorders at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he remained until 2011. During this time he was involved in teaching on several undergraduate courses as well as presenting at a number of national and international conferences on different aspects of working with people with HIV. He was also the inaugural chair of the Rehabilitation and HIV Association.
In 2011 he moved to the Royal London where he became the Senior OT for neurology and neurosurgery, before moving to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2013 where he completed rotations in neuromedicine and neuro critical care, the inpatient neuro-rehabilitation unit, the specialist intensive upper limb service and the acute and hyper acute stroke unit. During this time Will continued to teach on a number of external undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as running courses and workshops on cognitive rehabilitation, apraxia, functional splinting and upper limb rehabilitation.
Will was awarded a Master of Science in Cognitive Rehabilitation from the University of Westminster in 2018 with distinction. His thesis related to adult acquired limb apraxia and he presented the results at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists annual conference in 2021.
Since 2021 Will has been the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist for Neurosciences at the Royal Free Hospital where he leads services in acute stroke, acute neurology and critical care. His research and teaching interests include apraxia, hemispatial inattention, visual rehabilitation after stroke, cognitive rehabilitation, splinting for function and rehabilitation of the upper limb. He has co-authored six peer reviewed papers, one book chapter and seventeen conference presentations. He is an active member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy’s Specialist Section – Neurological Practice and is registered with Health and Social Care Professions Council.
Dr Pauline Christmas has a career as a physiotherapist specialising in children with cerebral palsy (CP) which extends over thirty-five years and she continues to work clinically. Since 2006 this has included practising as the only NHS consultant physiotherapist in the management of spasticity in children. This clinical expertise has been augmented by postgraduate training. In 2002 an MSc examined a screening tool for CP in the high-risk population and in 2016 a PhD investigated constraint induced movement therapy in hemiplegic cerebral palsy which was published in Clinical Rehabilitation in 2018. In recognition of an exceptional contribution to the advancement of paediatric physiotherapy a Fellowship of the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists was awarded in 2019.
The combined clinical experience and post-graduate training has enabled the development of a unique approach to the treatment and training in cerebral palsy called Evidence-based practical application. The training has been conducted primarily through the development of courses for therapists. Furthermore, there is an extensive portfolio of national and international presentations.
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Carolyn has a background in psychology, counselling, and conceived C&C Empathy Training from her direct experience of patient safety issues, compassionate communication failure, the inquest system and the NHS complaints process.
Carolyn experienced the loss of a child and found many of these systems did not grasp her emotional experience, motivations or needs, following this tragic loss. This was apparent individually and culturally, feeding into staff behaviour and negatively impacting on outcomes and wellbeing for her and staff involved.
Carolyn is passionate about promoting long term change through training and development by humanising processes and empowering staff to support themselves, colleagues, patients and loved ones, all done in a friendly and supportive learning environment using her unique LEED Communications Programme® and her BE HUMAN Model.
Carolyn has been public speaking on emotions and empathy in real life situations since 2006, reaching diverse audiences, creating further insight into some of the more complex emotional needs of the people in the process and in vulnerable positions, as well as staff personal emotional responses.
At the core of Carolyn’s work, is her thought provoking experience and personal journey, told with honesty and candour, valuing support and promotion of emotional awareness for staff to aid wellbeing. This is joined together with her academic study, analysis and personality, and her belief that understanding the ‘why’ something needs doing, rather than just ‘what’. This enables long term positive change and development, both individually and culturally. Carolyn works with multiple trusts, the Ministry of Justice, NHS England and the coronial system.
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Andrew works as a Consultant Physiotherapist and national Head of MSK for Connect Health. This role involves a clinical caseload within community MSK (Tier 1 and Tier 2) alongside providing clinical leadership to sixteen MSK services across England.
Alongside this clinical role, Andrew is an active researcher studying for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University and has published numerous articles in the Musculoskeletal domain and is a proud author for the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group. In 2020, Andrew became a National Trainer of FCP/APs for HEE as per the roadmap to practice following this, in 2021, he was provided an honorary associate professorship at the University of Bradford, teaching on the postgraduate MSK and FCP programme.
Andrew has presented his research at both national and international scientific meetings and conferences. Previously a Research Physiotherapist at the University of Warwick, Andrew has both taught and examined on the Orthopaedic component of the Medicine degree.
Andrew sits on the board of the European Society of Shoulder & Elbow Rehabilitation (EUSSER) and is Chair of South-West Yorkshire Advanced Physiotherapy Practice Network.
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Yuval DAVID, completed a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from Tel Aviv University in 1991. Continued his formal education in Sport Physiotherapy, from Curtin University, West Australia in 1994.
Working as a private practitioner and Director in Sport & Spine Physiotherapy, Israel. A clinic & post graduate education center in Sports & Orthopedic Physiotherapy. Acting as an invited Lecturer for undergraduate and master’s degree in the School of Physiotherapy of Ariel University. Wide experience in teaching of Anatomy as well as Evaluation and treatment of Orthopedic & Sport Disorders.
As a clinician Yuval works with a wide scope of pain and orthopedic clients, spinal and peripheral. He served as the physiotherapist of the Israeli Men National Basketball team from 2001-2019. Escorted a professional contemporary and modern dance/ballet groups for many years, as well as various professional and amateur athletes.
Yuval experience with the Mulligan concept started in 1995 when he was exposed to the concept during his post graduated studies. This was followed by a trip to visit Brian Mulligans clinic in New Zealand in 1995. The Mulligan concept has been since then an important part of his clinical daily practice. He was offered to join the Mulligan Teacher Association and started teaching the Mulligan Concept in 2008.
Apart from teaching the Mulligan Concept courses, Yuval is Co-teaching the Mulligan in Sports course, a special course offered to graduates of the Mulligan basic curriculum graduates.
Yuval's view of teaching is to put forward all evidence available to reason practice, but not forgetting that our practice is clinical, and patient oriented experience is highly important. Yuval main interest is in developing clinical reasoning in using the Mulligan concept in clinical practice, application of self MWM and self treatment and integration of the Mulligan concept into the accepted physiotherapy clinical practice. He is involved in development of a novice approach in symptom modification coined Contraction With Movement (CWM) as part of the Mulligan in Sports program.
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• Mulligan in Sport - An Advanced Workshop in Sports Therapy
An experienced NOI instructor in the UK, Ben has taught Explain Pain, Mobilisation of the Neuroimmune System and Graded Motor Imagery courses in the Uk & Europe since 2008. His background as a physiotherapist involves primary, secondary and tertiary care settings. The majority of Ben’s experience is with people who have complex, persistent pain presentations. Currently Ben works in primary care for Virgincare (Bath and Northeast Somerset, UK) as professional lead for physiotherapy and clinical specialist physiotherapist in pain management.
Ben’s PhD at the University of the West of England was in painful diabetic neuropathy, exploring whether this group of people could benefit from the pain management approaches which are relatively common in the MSK pain world, but not in the diabetic world.
You can find Ben on twitter (@ben_davies42)
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Ella has worked as an Occupational Therapist since 1997 and has specialised in hands since 2000. Ella enjoys treating patients with acute traumatic injuries – particularly sporting related, and utilises therapy knowledge and skills, especially splinting, to achieve the best outcome for patients. Ella is involved in co-ordinating and teaching on the BAHT Level 1 course and Level 2 Radiographic Interpretation course held at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre.
Ella is also a member on the education committee for the British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT) supporting & promoting education of UK therapists in hand & upper limb conditions. Over the past 16 years Ella has worked closely with many of the UK & International Thermoplastic Splint material manufacturers & providers.
Employment:
Hand Occupational Therapist – Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Royal Derby Hospital NHS
Hand Occupational Therapist – Nuffield Hospital Derby
Medical Administrator – England Women’s Pathway: England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
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Martin has over 35 years’ experience of leadership, communications, marketing, PR and dealing with the media, in the public sector and latterly with his own company, TandemComms. As a communication and marketing specialist, he has worked regionally to internationally, with TV, radio, and social media, planning and delivering on many campaigns. Martin is an experienced, highly sought-after trainer, running courses from the board to the shop floor, in presentation skills, storytelling for business, media skills, communications strategy development and crisis communications. He is passionate about helping people and organisations tell their unique story in business and whilst personally supporting a Kenyan charity (as a trustee) and other UK third sector organisations.
Martin says:
‘What motivates me is working to family values of loyalty and doing the right thing, being professional and making a positive difference to organisations but doing all that, with a touch of humour and fun’
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Ian has been a sport physiotherapist for over 20 years, with considerable time spent managing the medical services and wider multidisciplinary team for the Great Britain Boxing program. He has attended a vast array of competitions, including multiple Olympic and Commonwealth Games, supporting elite athletes on their path to success.
Ian is an Upper Limb Injury Specialist with the prestigious English Institute of Sport (EIS), providing a clinical expertise role to various Olympic and Paralympic Sports. He is also the physiotherapist/cutman with team Anthony Joshua, as well as supporting other professional boxers. Further, he provides private specialist consultations (ONLINE and/or face-to-face) on Upper Limb MSK injuries to both sporting and non-sporting clientele.
Ian has a passion for teaching, delivering regular national/international educational workshops, webinars, and at conferences on diverse areas linked to Upper Limb sport injuries. He is a regular visiting Lecturer at University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University London (QMUL), as well as collaborating with other universities.
Further, he has completed a PhD candidate in Upper Limb Biomechanics at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU).
Ian enjoys the diversity of clinical, research and education which he finds complement each other towards progressive knowledge in the UpperLimb. You can find Ian on various social media platforms as the #theboxingphysio
You can follow Ian on social media; Twitter (@iangattphysio), Instagram (iangattgattman) and Linkedin (theboxingphysio)
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