About Catherine
Chartered Physiotherapist for private treatment in Kendal, Cumbria, North Lancashire and North Yorkshire
History
I qualified from the Manchester School of Physiotherapy in 1997. I then commenced work within the NHS in the Lancaster district, initially working as a junior physiotherapist which encompassed a variety of work including musculoskeletal, respiratory & intensive care, neurological rehabilitation, orthopaedics, paediatrics and obstetrics. I then decided that I wanted to specialise in the out patient musculoskeletal field, and was promoted to a senior post working in different clinics in the area. I was also involved in a back rehabilitation programme, aiming to give people with back pain the confidence in their spine by appropriate exercises and education. I also worked in evening clinics in a private setting. I left the NHS in 2001 to gain experience within the private sector at the local Nuffield Hospital where I worked often single handed managing the ward patients who were a mixture of orthopaedics and general surgery, and also ran a busy out patients clinic.
In 2002, frustrated with the constraints of working for someone else, I decided to do it my way! In June that year I founded "Lakeland & Lunesdale Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic"! What a mouthful! This was a scary move, I was suddenly not employed and had new overheads. After naively opening the doors and expecting ailing people to flood in, they didn't. I thought, perhaps I'd better let them know I'm here!
I must have been doing something right despite my limited marketing skills as the clinic gradually became busier than I could cope with on my own. Alex and Kerry came to the rescue, joining the clinic in 2005, and are doing a fantastic job.
I have continued to do regular professional development, I love going on courses, and have discovered that the more you know the more you realise you don't know! The human body is fascinating, sometimes frustrating, we don't yet and never will have all the answers. The more experience I have gained, the more I am convinced that most of the problems I treat are due to a postural or movement dysfunction. We basically sit for too long from a young age, and this causes imbalances to develop around the hips, knees, spine and shoulder girdle due to these sustained postures. Then our muscles are ill equipped to do their job properly due to an alteration in their length, as some become too short and some too long. This can pull our joints out of the correct alignment, consequently putting strain on the soft tissues that support our skeleton. The soft tissues include ligaments, muscles, tendons, connective tissue/fascia, nerves, discs. I am particularly interested in searching for the cause of your problem, as well as treating the local complaint. After all the symptoms, be it pain, pins & needles, swelling, heat, colour changes, loss of movement etc are there for a reason and if all you do is treat the symptoms and not the reason, you aren't going to win long term!
Qualifications and Professional Membership
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy, MCSP, Member of HPC, AACP
Chartered Physiotherapist
 Chartered Physiotherapists in Private Practice |
 Chartered Society of Physiotherapy |
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