Alan Sealy
Alan graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 1996, where he also took his post graduate manipulative therapy qualification in 1999. With a background in manual therapy, Alan now works as a clinical Specialist in Vestibular Rehabilitation. Initially within the NHS, and as a partner in private practice in Sheffield, Alan developed an early interest in dizziness and balance disorders.Whilst on a lecture tour in Norway he was invited to establish ‘Balanseklinikken’, in Oslo. As the Director of Rehabilitation in Scandinavia’s busiest balance clinic, and more recently as Director of Aberdeen Balance Clinic, he has treated and helped over 7000 dizzy patients. This considerable experience is utilized in research and educational courses throughout UK, Scandinavia and Western Europe.Alan has presented at a number of National and international conferences in the field of vestibular rehabilitation and has had papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Now based in Aberdeen, his time is split between his private practice, lecturing and occasionally research
Anju Jaggi
Anju is a Consultant Physiotherapist with a clinical interest in shoulder dysfunction and Deputy director for therapies research & innovation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOHT). She has worked at the RNOHT for over 20 years, 18 years of which has been in clinical rehabilitation in managing complex shoulder dysfunction with a specific interest in atraumatic shoulder instability.She has lectured internationally and presented at numerous scientific meetings. She has published work in the field of motor control at the shoulder, co-supervised post graduate student projects and is involved in funded research studies collaborating with commercial and academic partners, one of which is the NIHR GRASP trial with the University of Oxford. She is currently leading a randomised clinical trial on the role of surgery in atraumatic shoulder instability with the surgical team at the RNOHT in collaboration with Prof Ginn at Sydney University. She holds a clinical teaching fellow post at University College London (UCL). She was President of the European Society of Shoulder & Elbow Rehabilitation (EUSSER) from 2012-2015 and is currently council member for the British Shoulder & Elbow Society (BESS). She is currently serving on the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) committee for guidelines in hip/knee and shoulder arthroplasty. She has a passion for improving the management of shoulder dysfunction as well as globally promoting physical therapy and rehabilitation.
Anthony Turner
Dr Anthony Turner is an Associate Professor in Strength and Conditioning, and the Research Degrees Coordinator for Sport, at the London Sport Institute, Middlesex University. Anthony has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, edited three textbooks (see latest here and here), and is an associate editor for the Strength and Conditioning Journal.Anthony has been a sport science consultant and S&C coach to numerous sports teams, Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and was formerly head of physical preparation for GBR fencing for the Rio Olympic cycle. Anthony is currently a consultant in human performance for the British Military and is a recipient of the UKSCA coach of the year award for education and research. Links to Anthony’s university profile, Research Gate, and YouTube channel are provided, and his twitter handle is @anthonyturneruk.
Ben Cormack
Owner at Cor-KineticBen Cormack owns and runs Cor-Kinetic. He is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science & exercise stretching back 15 years. He specialises in a movement & exercise based approach with a strong education component and patient centred focus.
Bryan Heiderscheit
He is the Director of the UW Health Runners’ Clinic; Director of Research for Badger Athletic Performance with UW Athletics; and Co-director of the UW Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory. Dr. Heiderscheit’s research is aimed at understanding and enhancing the clinical management of orthopedic conditions, with particular focus on sports-related injuries. He is Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy and Research Chair for the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy. Support for his research includes the NIH, NFL, NBA and GE Healthcare.
Ebonie Rio
Ebonie is a post doc researcher at La Trobe University and has completed her Phd in tendon pain, Masters Sports Phys, Ba. Phys (hons) and Ba. App Sci. She is a titled Sports Physiotherapist and consults privately as well as at The Victorian Institute of Sport. Her research has been awarded Victorian Fresh Scientist of the year 2015, ASICS SMA Best New Investigator 2004, 2013 & 2014 in Clinical Sports Medicine, best clinical science Pain Adelaide 2013, BJSM young investigator Best Clinical Paper 2014 and the Professor Mollie Holman medal for the best thesis of the faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Monash University 2015 and the ECR best paper 2015.Her clinical career has included Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Ballet Company, Australian Ballet School, Melbourne Heart football club, Alphington Sports Medicine Centre, Victorian Institute of Sport, Commonwealth Games 2006, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics, 2012 London Paralympics, 18 months travelling with Disney’s The Lion King stage show (Melbourne and Shanghai tour) and she was awarded the Post-Graduate Scholarship at the AIS (2007).
Francesco Bettariga
Francesco Bettariga Francesco graduated with honors from the University of Brescia and subsequently completed the Master of Science in S&C cum laude at the prestigious Middlesex University in London. In clinical practice, he has been involved in applying the knowledge inherent in physical exercise in the sports population and those affected by specific pathologies (cancer, diabetes, lipedema, lymphedema, osteoporosis and sarcopenia).Currently, he works as a researcher at the renowned Edith Cowan University (Perth - Western Australia) within the Department of Exercise Medicine Research Institute.
e is carrying out his PhD in the field of Exercise Oncology: his project, under the guidance of leading world experts in the sector including Prof. Newton, is in fact aimed at deepening the mechanisms that underlie the benefits deriving from exercise physique in the cancer population. Specifically, Francesco will investigate how the muscular system can secrete substances that inhibit the growth and proliferation of cancer cells. His work as a researcher therefore focuses on both the oncological and sports fields.
Ian Gatt
Ian Gatt MSc OMT MAACP MCSP SRP BSc (Hons) - Head of Performance Services & Lead Physiotherapist for GB Boxing - has been a sport physiotherapist for over 20 years, with a considerable time spent managing the sports science and medical services for the Great Britain Boxing program. He has supported diverse athletes on their path to success through Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, and current Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycles. He also forms part of Team Anthony Joshua (Boxing Olympic and Professional Double World Champion), delivering injury reduction and management strategies within a varied multidisciplinary team. Ian is an Upper Limb Injury specialist with the prestigious English Institute of Sport (EIS), providing an advisory role to Olympic and Paralympic Sports, particularly on Hand-Wrist injuries. Further, he offers private specialist consultations on Upper Limb MSK injuries in the UK and Overseas. Ian is a keen academic having collaborated on various publications associated with Upper Limb sport injuries, as well also undertaking a PhD in Wrist Biomechanics at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU).Ian has a passion for teaching, delivering regularly at workshops, conferences and online platforms on diverse topics linked to Upper Limb sport injuries. Further, he is a visiting Lecturer on MSc postgraduate courses at University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University College London (QMUL).
You can follow Ian on various social media platforms: Twitter (@iangattphysio), Instagram (iangattgattman) and Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-gatt-b169523b/)
Jill Cook
Jill Cook is a Professor in musculoskeletal health in the La Trobe Sport and Exercise medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. Jill’s research areas include sports medicine and tendon injury. After completing her PhD in 2000, she has investigated tendon pathology, treatment options and risk factors for tendon injury. Jill currently supplements her research by conducting a specialist tendon practice and by lecturing and presenting workshops both in Australia and overseas.
Laura Rathbone
Laura Rathbone is a clinical specialist physiotherapist working in the field of persistent and complex pain and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She gained her MSc in Advanced Neuromusculoskeletal Physiotherapy from Kings College London in 2015.She has held multiple Physiotherapy roles in London within 1st and 3rd contact environments working in clinics, GP practices, hospitals and a specialist programme. She worked as part of the multi-disciplinary team delivering the INPUT Pain Management programme at St Thomas’ Hospital under the management of Prof. Lance McCracken. Here she gained an in-depth working model of ACT and became skilled in session development for groups and individual work. Laura is dedicated to the understanding and exploration of the science of pain. She is the host of the podcast Philosophers chatting with Clinicians which brings and is working on understanding the model of Embodied Cognition and how pain might fit within this. She co-hosts Le Pub Scientifique in Amsterdam and guest lectures on the topic of pain and on incorporating psychological frameworks into practice.
She is currently exploring the philosophical discussions around conscious experience and how humans interact with their environment. She is particularly keen to explore how these models feed into the development of a modern, person-centred health care service and understanding of pain.
Mark Jones
Mark Jones is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia with 35 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy. Mark graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Psychology, then completed his Physical Therapy studies at the University of Iowa.Having developed an interest in manual therapy Mark travelled to Australia to study Manipulative Physiotherapy and after completing his Graduate Diploma in 1985 under Geoff Maitland he completed his Master degree by Research in 1989. The title of his thesis was “Facilitating Students’ Clinical Reasoning in Physiotherapy Education”.
Mark has a special interest in biopsychosocial health care and the teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning in physiotherapy. He has conducted and supervised research in the areas of clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal physiotherapy with over 90 publications including three editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions” and two editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning for Musculoskeletal Practice”. Mark has presented 30 Keynote Conference presentations and has taught professional development courses in clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal physiotherapy across 27 countries.
Martin Rabey
Dr Martin Rabey (PhD, FACP, MManipTh, BSc [Hons] Physio) is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2009). He is an Advanced Scope Physiotherapist in Spinal Surgery at Royal Perth Hospital, and a Lecturer at Curtin University. His research focuses on examining the multidimensional nature of persistent pain. He has taught pain neurophysiology and musculoskeletal physiotherapy skills to postgraduate clinicians since 2001.
Niamh Moloney
Dr Niamh Moloney (PhD, MManipTh, BPhysio [Hons]) is a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, Associate Professor in Physiotherapy and Yoga Teacher. She combines 25 years of clinical and academic experience and currently works at Curtin University, Western Australia. Her research and clinical practice focusses on assessment and care for people with persistent pain.
Rolf Walter
I have completed my bachelor in physiotherapy in 1984 in the Netherlands and have been mainly working in the following year in a hospital setting. In 1985 I went to Switzerland where I have been working in several settings (orthopedic, rheumatological medical practices and in physiotherapy practices) before starting to work as a private practioner in 1994.I have a wide interest in all the dimensions that are required to fulfill my job at the best and am trying hard to keep up with research updates and I do my best since the very start to attend the pathways of which I believe they are mandatory to do my job in the very best way I work as a rehabilitation consultant for a professional ice hockey club (HC Lugano) since the 2010/2011 season as well as with several other professional and non professional sporters and have done in the late eighties one of the first sportsphysiotherapy courses organised in the Netherlands as well as several courses in musculoskeletal management and in the field of strength & conditioning.
I work part-time as a teacher and as a clinical supervisor at the Master/OMPT educational program of the SUPSI in Lugano and work as a musculoskeletal senior teacher in several postgraduate courses since 2001. I like to do regular physical activity like running, cycling, skiing, sailing and have been an enthusiastic field hockey player in the Netherlands and in Switzerland up until the age of 28 before taking up the challenge of training and coaching a Swiss field hockey team in the early nineties for two consecutive years.
Stephen Rollnick
Stephen Rollnick PhD is a psychologist, author and trainer in sport, healthcare and other fields. He is Honorary Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine in Cardiff University, Wales. As a clinical psychologist Stephen spent many years in NHS mental health care and doing research on effective communication. He worked as a trainer in diverse cultures and settings worldwide, in support of programmes for pregnant teens and children with HIV/AIDS. He is a co-founder of Motivational Interviewing. Stephen works mostly in sport training coaches in communication, and mentoring individual coaches and players in cricket, football and other sports, including baseball, American football and surf therapy in South Africa. He has written several books on motivation, motivational interviewing and behaviour change. His most recent book is Coaching Athletes to Be Their Best: Motivational Interviewing in Sports (Guilford Press, New York, 2019).
Tim Mitchell
Tim is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist from Australia, with a PhD in the area of low back pain. He currently works clinically and is a director of Pain Options, a specialist physiotherapy clinic that provides management and second opinions for people with complex and persistent musculoskeletal pain. He also has a part-time appointment as a senior lecturer at Curtin University, where his main role is teaching on the post-graduate clinical masters program. Tim has broad experience in the research, education and clinical management of musculoskeletal pain disorders. More recently, Tim has been lead author on the Musculoskeletal Clinical Translation Framework, an eBook for helping students and clinicians translate contemporary knowledge into clinical practice.
Toby Hall
Toby Hall is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists), graduating in 1985 with an MSc in 1996 and PhD in 2010. He holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University.Toby has presented at many conferences, published more than 20 book chapters and published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles relating to cervicogenic headache and other topics. He has co-authored 3 books “Mobilisation with Movement, The Art and the Science” & ”The Mulligan Concept of Manual Therapy: Textbook of Techniques” in 1st & 2nd Edn. He regularly reviews for many journals, is on the international advisory panel of the Journal of Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy.
Val Jones
Val Jones is a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist working at the Sheffield Shoulder and Elbow Unit at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust and also works in private practice. She lectures nationally and internationally about the assessment and rehabilitation of the elbow joint. Val has published in peer reviewed journals and is a previous AHP representative on the British Elbow and Shoulder Society Council, as well as being the current UK national delegate for EUSSER. She has organised and presented upon the highly successful Sheffield Elbow course for Physiotherapists and has was awarded a prestigious Copeland Fellowship from the British Elbow and Shoulder Society, travelling to Cape Town in 2017.
