Personally living with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome was a huge driving force in why I became a physio in the first place. Now I aim to use my formal training and constantly growing professional expertise, hand in hand with my own lived experience, to help others like me to live the best lives they can.
I am a UK-based, HCPC-registered Physiotherapist and member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.
I am currently working full time in the NHS as an outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapist. In my NHS role I treat all manner of people, with all manner of musculoskeletal conditions. However, I rarely get to see as many hypermobile folks in this setting as I’d like. Even among those who I do see, I don’t get to give them the degree of time and attention that they really need to get the best care, as the service simply isn’t set up for meeting the more complex needs of the clinically hypermobile population (through no fault of its own).
As a result, I will occasionally take private consultations for individuals with hypermobility related pains and functional restrictions that find me online, seeking my guidance on how to maximise their function and overall wellness.
My capacity for private clients of either type is limited as a result of the rigour and intensity of my NHS work combined with my own health-related limitations, but don’t let that stop you from reaching out. I operate a waitlist for individuals that are very keen to work with me, and I make sure that by keeping my active client list to a realistic size, those who I am working with at any given time are not too restricted in appointment frequency where needed.
Outside of Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, here are a few of my other clinical interests:I am currently working full-time for the NHS in outpatient musculoskeletal practice. I feel very lucky to be part of an excellent team that does its best in supporting me with the challenges of managing my own chronic health conditions, enabling me and encouraging me to continually learn and improve my clinical practice a little bit every day.
The majority of my work given the caseload of this clinic consists of:
My personal objective as a cog in this wider machine is to engage each of my patients as an active participant in their recovery/management wherever I can. Rather than delivering treatment as a top-down authority, I always try to collaborate with the person in front of me to co-create a treatment plan that aligns with their lives, goals and values.
As hard as it can be to consistently achieve this objective under pressure (as the number of people we need to help perpetually exceeds the amount of time and resources we have to do it), I really do love my work in the NHS. Actively contributing to a system that provides access to evidence-based healthcare for the wider population, regardless of their financial means, is a significant and meaningful thing to me. As a person born in the USA, I am acutely aware that publically funded systems like the NHS that are attempting to provide universal healthcare to its citizens are few and far between, and I feel lucky to be a part of it for as long as it continues to strive for that goal. I hope to be able to continue to contribute to such a system in some way or another throughout my career.
Before embarking on my Master’s degree to qualify as a physio, my end goal has always been to specialise in primarily treating people suffering from symptoms relating to, or in the orbit of, the clinical joint hypermobility spectrum. Now that I am properly settling in to my role with my current team on the NHS side, I finally have the capacity to start placing some overdue attention on this over-arching mission of mine.
I am currently in the process of establishing all the relevant legal and logistical digital infrastructure to start formally taking clients outside of my NHS working hours. If you are keen to work with me in the near future, fill out the registered interest form and when the time comes I will get into contact with you!
In the meantime, I am planning to start producing some educational content relating to rehabilitation/physiotherapy more broadly, and then start narrowing in more on hypermobility and hypermobility-adjacent topics once the fundamentals are down.
Nick-E.com is a fitness education website that initially started as a ‘hobby blog’ of sorts, for me to try my hand at writing online tutorials for calisthenics exercises as a teen who was just getting into exercise myself. At the time I was a regular user and eventual moderator of the /r/bodyweightfitness subreddit, a community that (at the time I spent most of my time there) averaged around 2mil subscribed users.
While I was studying my undergraduate degree in Sport and Exercise Science and working part time doing remote personal training, I began to develop it more seriously, creating beginner exercise routines such as the BWF Primer and the Bodyweight Strength Foundations (BWSF) programs, which I am grateful to see are still part of the list of recommended free exercise routine on /r/bodyweightfitness, despite my absence of participation there nowadays.
Over the years I had also been slowly developing an online exercise library for use with my online personal training (And now also online physiotherapy) clients. This is essentially a collection of video entries with information about exercises that can be referenced by my private clients/patients, allowing a higher quality of remote/online exercise instruction.
Development on this library has slowed in recent years as my in-person physio work has taken most of my time, but it’s a project I hope to return to soon, and develop into a more robust platform for remote physiotherapy in future.
My primary goal at present is to take what I’ve learned about educational content creation and independent website development from my ‘fitness’ days on Nick-E.com, and start to produce content that is more healthcare, physio and rehabilitation focused on this site.
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Extracurricular Activities
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Association of Psychological Therapies - 2024
Mastersessions - Dr. Lorimer Moseley - 2024
Recognising Rheumatology - Jack March - 2025 - (Ongoing)
EDS ECHO Program - Ehlers Danlos Society - 2024-2025 (Ongoing)
Level 3 Personal Trainer - ActiveIQ - 2017
Level 3 Sports Massage Therapist - iTEC - 2018
Level 2 Olympic Weightlifting Coach - British Weightlifting Association - 2017
