About Rebecca, Veterinary Physiotherapist
Rebecca trained as a Chartered Physiotherapist at the University of Teesside for 3 years, receiving a BSc Honours degree in 2002. She worked for the NHS in Darlington treating people, before completing a post graduate diploma in Veterinary Physiotherapy at the Royal Veterinary College, London in 2006.
Rebecca continued to progress her career within the NHS for 17 years in total, although her main focus was in animal rehabilitation.
She is a member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Animal Therapy (ACPAT) which ensures physiotherapists are qualified and experienced in treating people before training to treat animals. This is vitally important as animals can’t tell us where the pain is and how they feel.
She is also a member of The Register of Animal Musculoskeletal Practitioners (RAMP) which ensures therapists treating animals have the appropriate level of qualification and insurance.
Rebecca now works solely in canine and small animal rehabilitation. She provides in house physiotherapy clinics for a number of veterinary surgeries, but also does home visits and has facilities to treat all animals at her treatment centre in Welbury, near Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
Rebecca heads up the physiotherapy department as part of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team at Moorview Referrals near Cramlington and Bridge Referrals in Boldon, where they provide immediate post-operative and rehabilitative physiotherapy for inpatients, outpatients and clients referred from other practices.
Animals have been a life long passion for Rebecca she has always had an array of pets from an early age and has horses which she competes regularly.