Nikki LockNikki graduated with first class Honours from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2003. She was awarded distinctions for both clinical subjects and class medal in her final year. After graduating, she began working in the sporting world traveling with various Rugby, Athletics and Gymnastics teams to national and international events. Following her passion for rehabilitation, Nikki also formed part of the multi-professional team that opened the first Neurological Rehab unit of its kind in the Province. After moving to London in 2006, Nikki began her Pilates training through APPI and has recently started lecturing for this Institute.
Nikki believes strongly in rehabilitation through functional movement and uses both her sports and personal experience to achieve significant results in all aspects of her patient rehabilitation.
Expertise:
Her national Gymnastics and dance background has fuelled a special interest in high level sport and more specifically, the maximizing of athletes performance. After working in various private clinics and sports injuries centres in and around London, Nikki began working as Senior Physiotherapist for Harlequins RFL for 2 years, traveling with the academy teams and assisting with the 1st team. Nikki believes strongly in rehabilitation through functional movement and uses both her sports and personal experience to achieve significant results in all aspects of her patient rehabilitation.
Personal interests:
Nikki enjoys surfing, scuba diving, the outdoors and traveling the world!
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Melanie BryantMel graduated in from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 2000 and moved to the UK the following year. She has worked in the private sector ever since in both the hospital setting and private practice. Her main areas of interest lie in Sports Physiotherapy and rehabilitation, treating back and neck injuries, and she enjoys treating the ante- and post natal population. She worked at Esher Rugby club for four years and recently headed up the Physiotherapy team for the England Touch Rugby squad. Mel is a member of the Acupuncture Association for Chartered Physiotherapists and uses acupuncture as a useful adjunct to manual treatment, and for treating pregnancy related conditions.
Mel joined Pilates Art Physiotherapy in November 2009, where she is currently the Clinical Manager.
Outside work, Mel enjoys staying active and plays touch rugby, and loves some time on the slopes skiing.
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Claire HahnClaire graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2003. She then worked in the public sector in South Africa for a year but felt that she wanted to improve her skills so in 2005 while working in private practice studied a post graduate year long course in Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapy. She then moved to London in 2006 where she has worked in the NHS and in more recent years the private sector. Claire completed the APPI certification process in 2007 and has been using pilates as a great addition to manual therapy ever since. She joined Pilates Art in 2008 and has seen the benefit of using Pilates equipment and matwork to rehabilitate her patients.
Claire is an avid runner herself and has therefore found this to be an area of interest in terms of treatment and rehabilitation. She is passionate about getting all patients back to full pain free function and helping them realise their sporting goals.
Claire Hahn
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Shelly PretoriusShelly joined our team as reception manager for Wimbledon at the start of 2010. As another South African, Shelly is extremely welcoming and highly efficient when it comes to taking care of our clients Pilates Art Physiotherapy experience. Shelly is our all round expert on customer service, efficiency and managing our growing team of therapists.
Shelly Pretorius
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Megan DrakeleyMegan graduated from Brunel University, West London, in 2006 with a first class honors in Physiotherapy. She worked with diverse patient groups and multi-disciplinary teams at a large teaching hospital in London before specializing in musculo-skeletal physiotherapy. Megan then went on to spend a year in private practice in Vancouver Canada, providing physiotherapy to winter sports athletes and youth teams and enjoying life on the pacific coast!
Expertise
From her experiences within the NHS Megan brings confidence in treating post surgical and fracture patients. As well as practicing a wide range of manual therapy techniques. Megan believes that exercise and pilates are key to staying healthy and reaching your fitness goals. She worked for two seasons with Roslyn Park RFC providing pitch side assessment and treatment, and enjoys working with athletes of all levels. Megan also has a special interest in treating pregnancy related pelvic girdle pain.
Interests
Megan has returned from Canada a keen skier, hiker, trail runner and with a passion for all activities outdoors. Megan also practices yoga and pilates.
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Monica Jones
Monica was born in Bogota, Colombia and has lived in London for over 25 years. She has a background in Textile Design from the Andes University in Bogota and Chelsea School of Art in London. Monica has always had a keen interest in anatomy and biology, fascinated by how the human body is such a complex system that is perfect harmony - most of the time!
Expertise:
Monica was introduced to Craniosacral Therapy by chance and was so attracted to the idea that the body can heal itself that within two weeks she had started the two year course at the College of Craniosacral Therapy. Having successfully completed her training under the tuition of Thomas Attlee, she graduated in 2010. The course covers anatomy, physiology and pathology, first aid, and Monica recently completed a specialised course in trauma. She is registered and insured by the Craniosacral Association and as such is subject to strict codes of conduct, standards and continuing personal development.
Personal interests:
Monica's other interests include china restoration, salsa dancing, Pilates, Yoga, meditation, gardening and walking.
Monica Jones
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Rebecca DuschlRebecca started working at APPI Health Group in August 2010. A Pilates enthusiast with an Arts Administration background, she thought this would be the perfect place to work while in London.
Originally from Houston, Texas, Rebecca started her dance training at the age of four. After graduating from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she received her BFA in Dance and BA in English, she moved to New York to pursue her dance career. In 2009 she moved to London to joined Transitions Dance Company, the resident company at Laban. While a member of the company she worked with choreographers Angela Woodhouse, Cameron McMillan & Colin Poole and toured the UK, Norway, Jordan & Spain. During this time she completed her MA in Dance Performance at TrinityLaban, finishing her studies on October 2010.
Currently pursuing a career as a dancer in London and working with the likes of Flatfeet Dance Company & Silversmith Dance Theatre and teaching dance to students of all ages, Rebecca is excited to be a part of a wonderful team helping to support her dream.
Rebecca Duschl
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Ming George
"Each body is different, and yet the biomechanical principles of optimal posture and stability are fundamental"
Ming graduated in 2001 with honours in a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the University of Melbourne, and has since dedicated herself to exercise-based rehabilitation and lifestyle education after experiencing the joys and benefits of both Pilates and Feldenkrais. She is a certified Polestar Pilates practitioner for Rehabilitation and has completed a Certificate IV in Kinesiology, as well as dozens of physiotherapy-based courses related to neuro-muscular control and dynamic stability of the body.
Her strong interest in combining exercise with other healthy lifestyle principles to maximise vitality and performance offers her clients a holistic view to managing their health. Ming is committed in keeping up to date on the latest methods in exercise rehabilitation, and also has a personal interest in studying a range of other fields such as nutritional medicine, human behaviour and personal transformation technology.
Ming recently arrived in London from Australia, and spends time at the gym, doing ballet classes and travelling, in between attending many workshops and courses.
Ming George
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Toosie Bawden
Toosie qualified as a Physiotherapist from the University of Cape Town in 2001 and then spent 3 years working in a private practice in South Africa. There she worked predominantly with musculoskeletal and spinal injuries specialising in Hydrotherapy Rehabilitation. Her love of sports, mainly road running and rugby, and working on sports related injuries made it easier to fit in part time work as the Buffaloes Rugby Club Physiotherapist as well as roadside marathon and courtside squash assistance for the duration of her time there.
Toosie then relocated to the UK where she spent 3 years at a private hospital in London working with orthopaedic inpatients and musculoskeletal outpatients. She has been working in private practices for the past 5 years focussing on specific sports and post-operative rehabilitation. During this time she felt that she would like to incorporate Pilates into her treatment and set about training as a Pilates instructor through the APPI. Currently she is also training as a Women’s Health specialist in order to combine these three facets into a more rounded approach to Physiotherapy.
Toosie loves sports, particularly road running and triathlons and she is currently training for a half ironman in June, with the hopes to doing a full ironman at some stage. Having completed some marathons and recently entered into the triathlon world, she is passionate about helping patients strive to meet their own goals, be it a 5 km around the block or a Marathon de Sable!
Apart from training, Toosie likes to travel, socialise and try new things. Her motto is “ Everything should be tried at least once!” thus the challenges are endless!
Toosie Bawden
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Katie Howard
Katie graduated from the University of Southampton in 2001. She completed her junior rotations at Barts and The London NHS Trust and benefitted greatly from the experience of working at one of the Trauma Centres in London and gained a great deal of experience in the rehabilitation of complex injuries. She was then lucky enough to go on to locum at hospitals in and around London specialising in Cardiothoracics, Respiratory Physiotherapy and Intensive Care Rehabilitation but being exposed to many different disciplines, including specialist oncology service, liver intensive care unit and amputee rehabilitation to name a few.
In 2006, after having practised Pilates herself for many years, Katie qualified as an APPI Pilates Instructor and set up her own business based in a racquet sports club, seeing first-hand the benefits of Pilates for sportsmen and women and also the general population. After a move back to London and a brief break from Physiotherapy, Katie found her way back to her passion of teaching Pilates and joined APPI Health Group in 2011.
Katie is passionate about the rehabilitation benefits Pilates can provide to clients from a variety of backgrounds and the versatility of the exercises means that complete beginners to elite athletes can incorporate it into their programme with great results. From her NHS days, Katie also has a special interest in respiratory physiotherapy and the management of longterm respiratory conditions and the benefits that Pilates can offer this client group with the emphasis of breathing-controlled exercise.
Outside of work Katie enjoys keeping active by running and taking boxfit classes, practising Yoga, as well as, of course, Pilates.
Katie Howard
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Allison TaylorAllison has been a receptionist at APPI since October 2011. 25 years old and American-born, Allison has lived in London for about a year. Allison has a bachelor's degree in Television Studies from Lyndon State College in the States and previously worked in TV news. When not working at APPI she is a full-time MA student at London Metropolitan University in a Media Studies program.
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