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After many years in musculoskeletal care, Thea was drawn to the presentations standard rehabilitation does not resolve: invisible conditions that are easy to miss and easy to dismiss. She went on to establish and run a persistent pain clinic in a public hospital, and to help build a hypermobility and neurodivergence programme in private practice. That work brought her to biio.
She listens closely, and builds plans around what matters to the person in front of her, not around a protocol.
When pain persists, the nervous system becomes protective. Signals are amplified, so pain spreads, lingers and stops tracking tissue damage. Treatment aimed only at the sore area tends to stall, leaving people feeling they have failed. Thea works with how the whole system is responding, setting goals around the function a person values instead of a pain score. The aim is for pain to take up less room in daily life.
Hypermobility and neurodivergence often occur together, and both change how the body senses position and effort. Programmes built for typical bodies and typical sensory processing can feel unsafe, overwhelming or beside the point. Thea adapts how exercise is explained, paced and delivered to suit how each person takes it in, so movement feels stable and manageable.
Many complex conditions lower how much the body tolerates before symptoms flare, so standard progressions overshoot. Thea trained in exercise science before physiotherapy, and more than ten years of clinical work shapes how she doses exercise: how much, how often, and when to progress. Sessions start from current capacity and build gradually, so gains are more likely to hold.