Howard is Clinical Director at Wilmslow Physio. He is a very experienced clinician and is well known and highly regarded within the profession. His passion is comprehensive, wholistic, multifaceted diagnosis and treatment of spinal and pelvic pain, headaches and neuropathic pain anywhere in the body. He is a master diagnostician and manipulative manual therapist. He spends a lot of his time looking after people who have failed treatment elsewhere.

Howard grew up on a sheep farm near Inverell, NSW, Australia. After a stint in the Royal Australian Air Force, a Physics degree and a distinguished career in the restaurants and bars of Melbourne he trained as a Physiotherapist at Latrobe University. He came to England in 1991 after working in Montreal and moved to this area to establish Wilmslow Physio in 2001 with his wife Joanne. They have 4 children, 8 fish, 2 cats and 4 chickens.

Howard has worked in the NHS, in occupational health, in private practice and as a consultant to a variety of sporting teams and bodies. For 30 years he taught on 6 of the UK’s best Physiotherapy Masters programmes, on clinical reasoning, disorders of the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex and shoulder problems. At the same time he taught post-graduate training courses to Physiotherapists, Osteopaths and Chiropractors on the management of low-back pain of pelvic origin and hip and groin pain.  He has consulted to British Cycling, UK Athletics, British Swimming, the English Institute of Sport, the LTA and LTAA, the RFU, West Ham, QPR, Sale Sharks and London Irish and has provided training to the Physiotherapy departments of many household name sporting clubs and bodies.

Jo co-founder of Wilmslow Physio with husband Howard. She is a relative local , growing up in Bury  before moving to London to study Physiotherapy at the London  Hospital  / University of East London.  She then worked at several major London teaching hospitals in, finally as a senior in Outpatients, Orthopaedics and Hydrotherapy. She then branched out into musculoskeletal private practice and occupational health for organisations such as the Civil Service and British Telecom.

She has pursued her interest in musculoskeletal medicine through intensive post-graduate education in the UK and Australia and is a trained acupuncturist.

Paul pursued a career as a physiotherapist for the opportunity to bring together his interests in health, fitness and science. Graduating as a physiotherapist in 2008 from Coventry University he has specialised in musculoskeletal physiotherapy from the outset of his career. Relocating to Manchester in 2010 to advance his skills and clinical experience he has been working with the NHS for over a decade providing outpatient musculoskeletal services across Greater Manchester. The role afforded the opportunity to work as Physio Team Lead, and development into an Advanced Practitioner role to enhance his scope of practice.

He has experience with a wide range of acute and chronic conditions and takes a hands-on approach to therapy, trained in manual therapies, sports massage and acupuncture, and draws on his personal interests in yoga, wellbeing and fitness training when prescribing exercises and rehabilitation tailored to each person’s goals and lifestyle.

Paul practises yoga daily, as well as regular calisthenics and strength training, and has a keen interest in cooking and baking.

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 Sarah is our Women’s Health / Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

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Laura graduated as physiotherapist in 2003 and brings over 20 years of experience working across both the private sector and NHS. After a decade working in other settings, she is delighted to be returning to Wilmslow Physio, bringing with her a wealth of knowledge and a truly holistic approach to patient care.

Laura’s approach to treatment is very much centred on a blend of hands on care and improving movement through appropriate exercise. She is passionate about ensuring clients feel listened to, fully assessed and a partner in their recovery. Much of her career has been centred around upper limb conditions and she has recently expanded her expertise to be able to support patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

She has completed a number of post graduate courses and loves learning. She is trained in acupuncture and Pilates (APPI).

Outside of work, Laura is a mum to 2 children and a new puppy! Weekends often find her on the sidelines cheering them on at various sporting activities or enjoying long walks, reading or on her yoga mat! She’s recently discovered a love of both Padel and paddle boarding.

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Vicki is a double Olympian, Commonwealth, World and European silver medalist and channel swimmer.

During her sporting career she realised that the reason she got through tough weeks of training was having good soft tissue therapy – she wanted to help athletes as therapists had helped her !

So she studies Sports Therapy in 2003 at the London School of Sport Therapy and has a BTEC level 5 massage qualification.

She has since worked with many sports, and consistently with the English Institute of Sport, British Cycling and New Balance Running. Working for Cycling took her to the 2004 Athens Olympic Games covering sports such as swimming, athletics, table tennis, surfing and taekwondo, in addition to cycling.

She says: “Here I am today with a wealth of experience to share and help prevent recover and treat soft tissue. I live in the Peak District where I hike the hills and swim the reservoirs , I have an alright husband and a couple kids and dog called Princess Margaret !”

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Having completed her Physiotherapy degree in 2011 Hannah began working in private practice; an area which allowed her to focus on her interest in sporting injuries. As well as working at Wilmslow Physio she is also a therapist working within the professional running team, New Balance Manchester.

Prior to physiotherapy Hannah studied Biomedical Science at Wolverhampton with a MSc at Loughborough. At the time she began her career as a sports massage therapist and gained valuable experience working with the English Institute of Sport (EIS) in Loughborough. She has since also worked for British Athletics, British Swimming and British Cycling; all exciting and challenging roles requiring various trips to the USA, Kenya and Font-Romeu.

Outside of work Hannah enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, and is a keen runner for Stockport Harriers.

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Jess initially completed a BSc in Geography before qualifying as a sports massage therapist in 2006. She subsequently completed an physiotherapy degree at Salford University in 2012.

After graduating, Jess worked in the NHS for a year, completing rotations in MSK outpatients and orthopaedics. She moved into private practice after the birth of her second child and splits her time between clinical practice here at Wilmslow Physio and in elite sport.

Jess has worked in athletics for 15 years, having travelled internationally with Track and Field Athletes, firstly in her role as a soft tissue therapist and then as a physiotherapist. She is a member of the British Athletics physiotherapy support team and regularly provides physiotherapy at altitude training camps, pre competition holding camps and covers U18, junior and U23 track and field competitions throughout the year.
Jess has a particular clinical interest in tendinopathy and is also a qualified APPI Pilates instructor.

Her experiences as a soft tissue therapist and a Pilates instructor compliment her physiotherapy practice in delivering effective treatment to a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions in patients from the general population to the high level athlete, as well as pre and post-operative rehabilitation.

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Amanda is back with us after a 10 year break. She is a very experienced musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with 25 years experience specialising in chronic symptoms and pain, and rehabilitation.

She offers a substantial background in manual therapy – movement and pain assessment and clinical reasoning, mobilisation, manipulation and massage, and has done further training in Advanced Acupuncture and Pilates / Yoga. Recently, she has completed training in solution-focused hypnotherapy to compliment her emphasis on whole-person care.

Her personal interests are running, golf, dance and horse-riding.

Helen has been as specialist in pelvic health for 30yrs. Graduating in 1989 from Withington Hospital, completing a post graduate diploma in continence in 1997 and her MSC in 2004. Since then she has continued to develop her clinical professional development and has further specialised in chronic pelvic pain and is fully pilates trained

She is a member of the board of POGP and lectures to undergraduates and other healthcare
professionals and medics.

Specialist treatment is provided for both men and women for:-

Urinary incontinence, Bladder dysfunction, constipation, Coccyx pain, chronic pelvic pain, Diastasis Rectus abdominus
Prolapse in women
Post prostatectomy in men
During pregnancy:-
Pelvic Girdle Pain, Separation of the abdominals, advice on safe exercise in pregnancy and bladder and bowel issues

Post Natal MOT

Post natal health check including Pelvic floor assessment and advice on return to exercise, with individualised exercise programs provided as required

Treatments techniques available, manual therapy, myofascial release, acupuncture, individualised exercise programs including Pilates and education

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Gareth started his career as an academic in the maths department of The Open University before making a change to become a physiotherapist. After graduating from Salford University, achieving the highest mark in his year, he started working as an MSK physiotherapist in both the NHS and privately. He continues to split his time across the two as a Senior Physiotherapist.

Outside work, Gareth’s passion is climbing, from bouldering to mountaineering, indoors and outdoors. He is a member of local and national climbing clubs. Gareth has participated in many other sports over the years – he holds a black belt in judo, is a regular runner and occasional mountain biker. He has a strong background in training for a range of sports.

Gareth’s interests mean he enjoys treating upper limb conditions and he has treated many climbers. He continues to develop his treatment skills, and has taken courses on taping and is a sports massage therapist. He is presently starting training in acupuncture and dry needling

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