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Amy works with people whose symptoms don't stay in one place: joint pain, fatigue, dizziness on standing, gut symptoms, headaches. Too often each is treated on its own. Amy looks at the whole picture, picks up patterns that have been missed, and helps build the right team around each person early. Her background spans paramedicine, paediatric hospital physiotherapy and private practice with adults and children, so complexity doesn't faze her.
She gets to know people first, then adapts how she communicates and treats. She brings energy and humour, and slows right down when someone needs calm. The aim of a first session is for people to feel heard, with a clear plan to start from. Patients often hear her say: “Let's break it down, one step at a time. You are not broken.”
For adults and children, assessment covers joint movement, proprioception and strength, including the Beighton score. Amy builds a graduated exercise programme, often drawing on her reformer Pilates training, alongside joint protection and self-management strategies. She advises on compression garments and bracing, and works with occupational therapy on garment fitting.
After injury or orthopaedic and oncology surgery, Amy identifies what is limiting recovery and builds a staged plan back to work, sport and daily life. Progress is tracked with objective testing, including hop, calf raise, single-leg sit-to-stand, bridge and knee-to-wall tests, and questionnaires such as the Oswestry Disability Index. She has also run group strength, Pilates and ACL rehabilitation classes.
Amy works with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis in adults and juvenile idiopathic arthritis in children, tracking function with measures such as KOOS and QuickDASH. She prescribes exercise aimed at increasing movement and easing pain, writes a plan for flares, and advises on equipment and bracing, with education so people can manage between sessions.
Amy tests the small stabilising muscles of the neck and back, joint range and posture, using the Neck Disability Index. She reviews work and study setups and recommends equipment changes where useful, then builds an individual strength and mobility programme with self-management strategies.
For children, Amy assesses gross motor skills, balance and developmental milestones, using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire for younger children, and sets goals with the family. Sessions are play-based, drawing on Pilates principles adapted for children. She often sees neurodivergent children who are also hypermobile, tire quickly, or struggle with handwriting and keeping up with peers. She also treats infant torticollis, plagiocephaly and brachial plexus palsy, and offers play-based airway clearance for cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis and chronic wet cough.