About me
Experienced physiotherapist in Cornwall
As a qualified physiotherapist, I’ve been helping clients recover from pain and injuries for over twenty-five years.
I’ve worked for both the NHS and in private practice, as well as with top level sports teams, including at the Exeter Chiefs RFC and the European PGA Golf Tour for over five years. During this time, I’ve supported countless individuals from all walks of life, successfully dealing with all kinds of pain and injury.
This has given me a great deal of experience – and is also the reason why my approach has evolved from standard physiotherapy.
Having observed many clients over the years and the way they responded to different treatments, I began to realise that the traditional techniques I had been taught just weren’t getting to the heart of the problem.
These may have provided short-term relief, but I could see a pattern in return visits. Time and again, I was hearing from people that niggling or chronic pain was limiting their ability to live their normal life. It was apparent that patients were in the trap of treatment shopping: seeing many different clinicians with the same ineffective results, then moving onto the next in the hope of a positive result.
I became disillusioned. I was doing what I’d been trained to do, but wasn’t seeing the lasting outcomes I wanted for my clients.
A quicker recovery, with long-term results
This all changed in 2009, when I was introduced to an alternative way of working as a physiotherapist. Backed by the latest science on pain and how our body and mind work together, this made sense of all my previous questions and frustrations.
I began to practice differently and saw dramatically improved results. Patients responded so quickly that they only needed one or two sessions with me before they were able to maintain their own wellness.
I stopped using the ineffective, dependency-creating treatments and replaced these with a research-based method, centred on each patient as an individual. This reduced the need for repeated treatments and provided sustained improvements.
From that moment onwards, I’ve been really excited about being able to deliver the lasting results that I wanted and patients deserved.
Truly effective physiotherapy
The new approach, a research based progression of traditional physiotherapy known as Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT), is a powerful solution to both short-term and long-term problems.
As a physiotherapist, I’ve seen for myself how this benefits my clients and I want to change how we deliver musculoskeletal healthcare. This shifts the focus from the short-term relief of symptoms to identifying the cause of these symptoms instead, empowering patients with the tools to manage pain and break the cycle of repeated treatments.
I work in partnership with you, assessing the reasons for your pain and the factors that are exacerbating this or preventing your recovery. I then provide a structured plan for you to follow, which enables you to make the changes you need for rapid improvement in your pain symptoms.
My approach
Successful physiotherapy requires routine check-ups, with ongoing visits for adjustments, alignments and other treatments, right? Wrong…
CFT
Developed from decades of research on how our bodies work, CFT looks at the whole person rather than treating your symptoms in isolation.
News / Blog
The brain is incredible, it processes a huge amount of information... it constantly takes in information, decides what it means and then how to react...
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Hons) Physiotherapy 1996 at the University of Birmingham.
Worked in the NHS until 2001.
Worked in private practice from 2001 to present.
Worked with high-level sports teams:
European PGA Golf tour over five years;
Exeter Chiefs RFC over five years.
Played county cricket with Worcestershire, Hampshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset County Cricket Clubs.