Therapists

Joanna provides a specialist home visit physiotherapy service for people with Parkinson's living in Worcestershire, leads the “Movers and Shakers” exercise classes in association with Parkinson’s UK in Worcester and jointly leads Physi-yo Yoga for Parkinson’s classes in Bromsgrove.

Joanna completed her Physiotherapy degree at the University of Birmingham in 2005. Prior to this she completed a BSc in Sports Science at the University of Wales, Swansea (now Swansea University). She began her working career in the NHS at Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull hospitals progressing to a senior role before moving to the Princess of Wales Community Hospital (POWCH) in Bromsgrove in 2010. Here she established herself as the Specialist Community Falls Physiotherapist for Redditch and Bromsgrove and began working in the Rehabilitation and Assessment Unit.

She developed and continues to lead the physiotherapy aspect of the Parkinson's Rehabilitation Service at POWCH providing exercise classes and 1:1 specialist input within the Rehabilitation Unit. Joanna assisted in the development of the new Complex Parkinson’s Multidisciplinary Clinic where she acts as Lead Physiotherapist and supports the Worcestershire Parkinson’s Specialist Nurses on complex home visits as a Parkinson’s Specialist.

Joanna is a Level 4 Certified Postural Stability Instructor, an accredited PD Warrior Instructor and a Freestyle Fitness Yoga Instructor. She is highly motivated to keep herself up to date with evidence-based practice, delivering teaching and Continuing Professional Development sessions to her peers and acting as one of the speakers at the monthly Countywide Newly Diagnosed Parkinson’s Education Group which she helped to set up. She is Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered and a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) and the Parkinson’s UK Exercise HUB.