Ron Alexander
Ron Alexander founded the FFT® method in 1994 during his eight years as the Principal Soft Tissue Therapist for the Australian Ballet. The high performance levels and the flexibility required by the dancers provided the impetus for Ron to experiment with taping techniques leading to the discovery and development of a more functional way of applying tape to modify pain and increase range of movement allowing for rehabilitation.

The Australian Ballet is one of the highest performing company’s in the world and is regarded as having one of the worlds most dynamic medical teams. However the first four years of Ron’s appointment to the Australian Ballet, he was the only resident and touring therapist for the 64 dancers.

During this period Ron found that conventional taping in the subacute stage of injury did not always meet the needs of the dancers or adequately address the volume of injuries. This lead to an innovative way to modify and treat pain. Ron's findings were further encouraged by Dr Karim Khan, Susan Mayes and Jan Smith. The Australian Ballet held Ron in such high regard he was awarded the ‘Lady Southey Scholarship for Excellence’ from the foundation. This award included a 6-week study tour of Europe. Ron has expanded the FFT method to include patients of the general population suffering from musculoskeletal injuries.

John Annan MCSP SRP
John Annan (on the right in the picture) has been a practitioner in the NHS and in private practise since qualifying as a physiotherapist at King's College London in 1993. John worked in out-patients and Hydrotherapy as a senior 1 St Thomas Hospital. He has studied Myofascial Release under John F Barnes (a major proponent of the approach) in the USA and has spent the last 4 years developing his unique teaching approach. He now lives and works down in the South West of England and lectures and teaches nationally.

Karen Carroll D.O.,Dip.Paed.Ost.,N.D. Registered Osteopath
Osteopath and Naturopath. Karen treats structural problems and also specialises in the treatment of children, pregnant and post partum mothers. Karen is a Consultant and Lecturer at the Osteopathic Centre for Children, Clerkenwell, London. Karen lectures worldwide on Laser Therapy and in the UK at a Post Graduate level on Paediatric Osteopathy and Osteopathic Techniques.

Linda Exelby BSc (Physio), GradDipManTher, MMPAA FMACP, MMCTA
Linda Exelby gained her undergraduate degree at Cape Town University in 1979 and completed post graduate manipulative programmes in South Africa and the UK. She also completed a Diploma in Manipulative Therapy at Curtin University, Perth, Australia in 1990. She has worked as a clinical specialist in the NHS for 10 years and currently works in the private sector. She is one of the founder members of the Mulligan Teachers Association and has published numerous articles on this subject. She is a fellow of the MACP and she lectures, examines and clinically supervises on the MACP programme and a number of Post Graduate MSc Neuromusculoskeletal programmes.  She has a special interest and her courses emphasis biomechanics of movement, integration of neuromusculoskeletal assessment, differential diagnosis and treatment.

Sean Gibbons BSc. (Hons) P.T., MSc. Ergonomics, MCPA
Sean Gibbons graduated from Manchester University in the UK in 1995. He shares his time between clinical practice, teaching and is pursuing his PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland. It involves the inter-relationship between, psychosocial factors, motor control, learning based cognitive factors, sensory motor function and outcome. His research has definite clinical implications for the management of musculoskeletal dysfunction. The development of the Motor Control Abilities Questionnaire identifies clients who will unlikely do well with specific motor control rehabilitation and identifies alternative rehabilitation options to improve motor control and cognitive dysfunction. His dissection and research has provided new insight into muscle function and prompted research into the field. Specific muscles have included psoas major, gluteus maximus and upper trapezius. This has lead to the development of new rehabilitation protocols for several muscles. He has presented his research at national and international conferences and has several journal publications on related topics.

Alex Hough MSc MCSP DipTP
Alex Hough has been an international lecturer in respiratory care for 20 years, but is best known as the author of Physiotherapy in Respiratory Care, now in its 3rd edition. Alex has worked in the UK, Canada, Colombia and Jamaica, has presented papers at several international conferences, has written papers for and is referee for medical and physiotherapy journals, has worked as a counsellor in the UK, and been Physiotherapy co-ordinator at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Click here to see Alex's web page

Hugh Jenkins BSc (Hons) MCSP
Hugh Jenkins graduated from the University of East London in 1991. He worked in London both in the NHS and private sector before moving to Devon. He is now a partner in Exeter Physio & Sports Clinic and has been lecturing with Howard Turner since 1999.

Ruth Jones MCSP
Ruth Jones is a Physiotherapist who combines the disciplines of international research and education alongside her clinical experience as a specialist physiotherapist. She has worked in private practice for the last 14 years, creating a multidisciplinary clinic for pain management, sports medicine and pelvic floor rehabilitation. She is currently evaluating pelvic floor muscle function using 2D dynamic ultrasound as a specialist at Stanford University, California.

Roger Kerry MCSP MMACP MSc

Roger graduated from Pinderfields School of Physiotherapy and subsequently gained a Masters of Science degree in Manipulative Therapy. He is a member of the MACP and a diplomate of the Cyriax Organisation. Before taking up his current post as a Physiotherapy lecturer and researcher at Nottingham University, Roger worked as an extended scope practitioner in Orthopaedics. His clinical and research interests involve haemodynamics and vascular injury, manipulative therapy, and clinical reasoning in manual therapy. Roger lecturers widely in the area of haemodynamics and is a regular presenter at seminars and conferences on this subject. He has numerous publications concerning various areas of physiotherapy practice.

Charlie King MCSP HPC Registered
Charlie King is a chartered Physiotherapist who qualified from University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff in August 1985. Formally trained to Advanced level in the Bobath Concept, he developed Neuromuscular Energising Therapy (NET) in 1994 following a successful voluntary secondment to Krapinske Toplice Rehab Centre near Zagreb in 1993. NET is a structured and logical treatment approach examining the complexities of movement patterning and muscle activity, creating a logical sequential method of treatment. Initially concentrating upon Neurological conditions using NET and teaching both nationally and internationally, Charlie has developed the use of NET to include neuromuscular problems associated with Orthopaedic conditions. His approach truly breaks down the “barrier” between Neuro and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation and treatment to create this dynamic assessment and re-evaluation concept that allows the body to unlock itself and restore harmony in the neuromuscular matrix to ensure more economy and efficiency of movement. He is currently based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire at his private clinic which he established in 1995.

Diane Lee BSR, FCAMT, CGIMS          
Diane is well known both nationally and internationally for her clinical work on thoracic, lumbar and pelvic (sacroiliac) dysfunction and has integrated the scientific research on lumbopelvic function into a clinical model for assessment and treatment. Her writing journey began in 1989 when Elsevier (then Churchill Livinstone) published the first edition of her book “The Pelvic Girdle” which has since been translated into several languages and updated in 2 subsequent editions. Since then, other books, chapters and articles have been published along with videos and DVDs to help clinicians integrate the science and enhance their clinical expertise.

On a professional level, Diane is an editorial advisor for the journal Manual Therapy as well as the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy and a Scientific Committee member for the Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Pain. She is also an advisory board member for Chicago’s Woman’s Health Foundation. She is honoured to be part of the beginning of Discover Physio and looks forward to watching it evolve.

Linda Joy Lee BSc, BSc(PT), FCAMT, CGIMS, MCPA, PhD Candidate
Linda-Joy is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellow, clinical physiotherapist, and educator. “LJ” has a passion for helping people explore and realize their potential. She is known internationally for her skills in movement and performance analysis to restore optimum function and her integrated approach to treatment. LJ enjoys creating a supportive learning environment that allows participants to challenge and develop their clinical reasoning skills, examine and translate science, explore the power of touch and awareness, and see movement and function in the body in a more connected way. She has developed novel approaches to assess and train thoracic control in patients with spinal pain and dysfunction and is currently investigating these ideas in her PhD at the University of Queensland (Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health) under Paul Hodges and Michel Coppieters.

LJ consults and mentors a team of physiotherapists at her clinic, Synergy Physiotherapy (www.synergyphysio.ca), in North Vancouver, Canada, and teaches clinicians world-wide how to integrate multiple paradigms, new ideas and science for effective outcomes in clinical practice. She has written several book chapters on thoracic and lumbopelvic dysfunction, co-produced DVDs and other educational materials, as well as published her research in peer-reviewed journals. She has presented at several national and international conferences, and was a Keynote Speaker at the 6th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in November 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. Together with teaching partner Diane Lee, LJ is a founder of Discover Physio, whose mission is to educate, inspire, and support clinicians worldwide in their professional journeys.

Laurie McLaughlin, BHScPT, FCAMT, DScPT(c)
Laurie is an instructor, examiner and former chief examiner for the Orthopaedic Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and is on faculty and an examiner for the North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy in the United States. She has taught Manual Therapy Courses across Canada, in the USA, Jamaica, Switzerland and Australia. Her areas of interest include Spinal Manipulation, Manual Therapy for the Fascial System and Breathing Retraining which she is currently studying while pursuing a DScPT through Andrews University in Michigan.  She is a member of the HaNSA (Head and Neck, Shoulder, Arm) research team at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Lorimer Moseley PhD BAppSc(Phty)(Hons)
Dr Lorimer Moseley is a scientist living inside a clinician, or the  other way around - he is not quite sure.  His work in understanding the biology of pain, in developing and testing novel strategies to help those in pain, and in presenting modern pain biology to clinicians, patients and the community, have received world-wide recognition.  He has given public lectures in several countries, has published over 50 papers in top-flight journals such as PAIN, 
European Journal of Pain, Brain, Neurology, Arthritis Care & Research and Rheumatology, and his work has been discussed in the popular media in every continent. His many awards include Best paper at the 2003 World Congress of Physical Therapy and the Young Investigator Award for Clinical Sciences, a prestigious biennial prize awarded by the International Association for the Study of Pain to the outstanding mid-career clinical scientist from any pain-related field. He is currently Nuffield Medical Research Fellow in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics at Oxford University, where he is also Principal Fellow for the GAMFI Collaboration.

Chris Murphy MCSP SRP MSc MMACP
Chris currently divides his time between lecturing both post graduate and undergraduate level and working for PhysioUK. He has lectured on pain physiology, differential diagnosis, chronic pain management and the foot and ankle. These later topics have developed respectively into post graduate courses. He qualified from University of East London in 1994 and worked for the NHS for 5 years gaining his Senior 1 post in outpatients before leaving for private practice. He completed his Masters degree in Neuro Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation at UCL in September 2000. Since then he has worked primarily in private physiotherapy and sports injuries clinics whilst also developing his lecturing experience.

Mr Colin Natali BSc(Hons) MB BS FRCS(Orth)
Colin Natali is a Consultant Spinal, Trauma and General Orthopaedic Surgeon. He qualified from the Royal London Hospital Medical College in 1986 and gained his membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1991. He currently is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, The London Independent Hospital and The Cromwell Hospital. He is also a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary Westfield College, London and a Programme Director for Student Selected Components Queen May Westfield College, London. He also  consults privately at the London Independent Hospital, The London Clinic, Harley Street and the Cromwell Hospital. Finally he is Clinical Director of back2normal a rehabilitation clinic in London.

Chris Norris MSc MCSP MBAcC
Christopher Norris is a Chartered Physiotherapist who holds a masters degree in Exercises Science. He has post graduate certificates in both orthopaedic medicine and occupational health physiotherapy and an advanced certificate in traditional Chinese Acupuncture. He has over 25 years experience treating soft tissue injuries and specialises in sports injuries and exercise therapy.

He is the author of seven books including textbooks on Sports Injuries (Elsevier), Acupuncture (Elsevier) and Back Stability (Human Kinetics). Chris is a member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) and an advanced member and approved tutor for the AACP. He runs private clinics in Manchester and Cheshire, and is an external lecturer at the University of Salford. He runs various courses on back stability, muscle imbalance and acupuncture.

Anne-Marie O'Connor , D.Biomech.Pod, D.Pod.M, MChS, SRCh
Anne Marie is a Musculoskeletal Podiatrist working within the private sector. She specialises in biomechanics and gait analysis, working in a multidisciplinary musculoskeletal sports injury clinic in BUPA Barbican, London where she treats both recreational and professional injuries .

She has a vast experience working with professional athletes and currently works with numerous professional sports teams and individuals, including Leicester Tigers, Bath rugby, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspurs, Reading football, UK Athletes in track and field and athletes involved with the English Institute of Sport.

Margie Olds BPhty, Dip Sports Grad, MNZSP, MCSP (UK), SRP (UK).
Margie Olds is a sports physiotherapist currently based in Auckland, New Zealand, where she is researching Active Stiffness in the Unstable Shoulder.

Margie has a special interest in recurrent shoulder instability and has designed and patented a shoulder brace to decrease the risk of dislocation during sporting activity. Margie worked for the British Canoe Union, based in Nottingham for 5 years and has a passionate interest in the sporting shoulder. This passion has lead to her teaching on a series of shoulder courses entitled ‘The Sporting Shoulder’. Margie continues to work clinically and enjoys the challenge of complex shoulder pathology.

Clare Pope MCSP, ACPSM Gold Accredited Sports Physiotherapist
Clare Pope is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, teaching undergrad and post graduate students in Physiotherapy (including tape), Anatomy and Sports Medicine.  Clare is a Clinical Specialist in Sports Medicine and works primarily in Rugby Union.  However Clare has also worked with elite runners, and continues to work with tri-athletes, Muay Thai boxers and is currently the physiotherapist for Britain's Strongest Man. 

Martin Rabey MCSP, M.Manip.Th. MACP, MMPA, MAPA
Since completing his Master of Manipulative Therapy in Curtin, Australia in Martin has with a colleague has developed this course as manipulative treatments within the cervical spine are not so commonly taught or performed within physiotherapy. There clinical and academic experiences have lead to the development of this course which in a logical and step by step manner allow participants to examine and treat the cervicothoracic region using manipulative techniques. Currently Martin works clinically with a mixed musculoskeletal caseload in his clinic in Guernsey. 

Graham Smith GradDipPhys, FCSP, SRP, DipTP, CertED
Graham runs his own sports injury and physiotherapy clinic in Glasgow, previously he was Physiotherapist at Glasgow Rangers F.C for a number of years. Prior to that, Graham spent four years as Director of Rehabilitation at the National Sports Centre in Lilleshall, which he was instrumental in setting up.

Originally trained in the RAF and taking his qualifications at Bath School of Physiotherapy, he has been a nationally elected member of the Council of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, since 1987 and is now a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the elected physiotherapy members representative to the Health Profession Council.

He has an extensive background in the treatment, management and rehabilitation of injuries at all levels of the sporting spectrum. He is a visiting Professorship at the University of Teeside and he lectures extensively nationally and internationally on rehabilitation and sports injury management. His seminars are stimulating, entertaining and filled with sound theoretical and practical material.

Professor Shirley Sahrmann
Dr. Sahrmann is Professor of Physical Therapy/ Neurology/ Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. She received her bachelors degree in Physical Therapy, masters and doctorate degrees in Neurobiology from Washington University. She is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association and is a recipient of the Association's Marion Williams Research Award, the Lucy Blair Service Award, and the Kendall Practice award, the John H.P. Maley Lecture and Mary McMillan Lecture awards. Dr. Sahrmann has also received Washington University's Distinguished Faculty Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Indianapolis. She has served on the APTA Board of Directors. In addition to her numerous national and international presentations, Dr. Sahrmann has been a keynote speaker at the World Confederation of Physical Therapy, and at the Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand national congresses. Dr. Sahrmann's research interests are in development and validation of classification schemes for movement impairment syndromes as well as in exercise based interventions for these syndromes. Her recent book, Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes describes the syndromes and methods of treatment. She maintains an active clinical practice specializing in patients with musculoskeletal pain syndromes

Hubert van Griensven MCSP, BSc, DipAc, MSc(Pain)
Hubert qualified as a physiotherapist in 1988 and has worked in the UK since 1990. He studied Chinese acupuncture at the Cheung San School of Acupuncture. He qualified in 1996 and has been an advanced member of the AACP since. His interest in Chinese health care led him to also study Tai Chi Chuan and other 'Internal Arts'. He completed an MSc in pain and is currently working as Consultant Physiotherapist at Southend Hospital. He is the author of the book Pain in Practice – Theory and strategies for manual therapists (Elsevier 2005).

Professor Tim Watson
Tim completed his physiotherapy education in the late 1970's. Since then through his PhD, ongoing research and academic work he has become one of  the UK's leading authorities on electrotherapy and its clinical application. His interest in tissue repair is ongoing and he has consolidated current research on this topic into an informative day relevant for any therapist involved in manual therapy, exercise or electrotherapy. He is currently the School Research Lead at the University of Hertfordshire and lectures nationally and internationally on electrotherapy and tissue repair.  He has presented 18 key note and invited papers on electrotherapy since 1996 throughout the United Kingdom. He is Research Officer for the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists - Electrotherapy. He regularly reviews papers for 'Physiotherapy', 'Physical Therapy Reviews', and 'British Journal of Sports Medicine'.
 

Ed Wilson BA (Hons) MCSP HPC
Ed has been teaching the basic Mulligan Concept course (Nags, Snags, MWM’s) nationally and internationally since 1993, and the more advanced level course since 1998.He has published many articles on the techniques and their rationale. His latest major contribution is a chapter in “Positional Release” by Leon Chaitow (2007) Harcourt Publications, Edinburgh. The influences of Mulligan’s pain free approach and Chaitow’s comprehensive soft tissue “bodywork” methods have been incorporated into “Treatment Points, Pain and Muscle Tone”, a course taught by Ed since 1999. His BA (Hons) in Social Sciences included extensive study of psychology, and how pain behaviour is influenced by physiology and biochemistry is still of particular interest to him.

Adrian Yeoman BSc MCSP HPC Registered
After gaining a Diploma in Physiotherapy from the University Hospital of Wales School of Physiotherapy in 1981 Adrian worked in London at Charing Cross Hospital. He then worked in Nigeria with VSO at a leprosy hospital. On his return to the UK he specialized in learning disabilities and paediatrics in London. In 1988 the world beckoned again and he travelled to Nicaragua to work at an orphanage. After a spell at Barnstaple District Hospital, North Devon he moved to Portsmouth. His significant postgraduate qualifications are a diploma in Acupuncture from Nottingham and a diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (McKenzie approach to spine management) from the USA. He became interested in the treatment of BPPV several years ago after a one-day course and has since undergone further postgraduate training with Dr Susan Herdman, a renowned specialist and author in the subject.

He now works for the NHS as a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist (ESP) in Back Care but with a special interest in vertigo, in the Portsmouth area.

His specialist interests in back care, acupuncture and vertigo. He has a keen interest in effective delivery of post-graduate physiotherapy education and is currently working towards a professional qualification (PGCE) in adult education.

As well teaching on BPPV, he also teaches acupuncture and undergraduates on the BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy course at Southampton University.

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