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Dr Alison Rushton EdD, MSc, Grad Dip Phys, DipTP, FMACP
Chair of IFOMPT Standards Committee
 After working in neuromusculoskeletal clinical practice Alison moved into education full time in 1993. An MSc in Manipulative Therapy provided the background for development of her teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy. A Doctorate in Education completed in 2004 at the University of Warwick, UK has enabled Alison to integrate educational practice with neuromusculokeletal physiotherapy.
Alison is currently Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for the MSc Advanced Manipulative Physiotherapy at the University of Birmingham in the UK. This programme is an approved route leading to membership of the UK Member Organisation of IFOMT, the Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP).
Alison's research is focused on two aspects. A professional development focus builds on her Doctorate in Education and investigates international research priorities for neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy, to provide a guide for Masters Level Student Dissertations, and another study investigates the development of learner independence. A neuromusculoskeletal focus is centred on the efficacy of physiotherapy management in acute Whiplash Associated Disorder II, and physiotherapy management post lumbar discectomy. As part of the whiplash study, the use of dynamic ultrasonography investigates nerve mobility and characteristics.
Alison has successfully completed numerous MSc dissertation supervisions, and one Doctoral supervision centred on Mobilisations with Movement in Low Back Pain Management. Her current Doctoral supervisions include: management of dyslexia in health care education, the effect of cervical manipulation on eye coordination, outcome measures post ACL injury, and dynamic ultrasonography evaluating nerve movement characteristics post Whiplash Associated Disorder.
In addition to being the Chair of the Standards Committee for IFOMPT, Alison is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation. She is also on the Editorial Board of Manual Therapy, reviews articles for several journals, and reviews research bids for several organisations. Alison is also an External Examiner in Manipulative Physiotherapy at University College London and Kings College London in the UK. Her previous roles have included Chair of the Committee for Education and Approval and Vice Chair of the MACP, External Examiner for OMT MSc programmes at Manchester University, and the University of Brighton, UK.
Contact Alison:
Dr Alison Rushton
School of Health and Population Sciences
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
52 Pritchatts Road
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Tel: 0121 415 8597
Email: standards@ifomt.org |
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Dr Darren A. Rivett, PhD, MAppSc(ManipPhty),
GradDipManipTher,BAppSc(Phty)
Dr Rivett is the Head of the School of Health Sciences and Foundation Professor of Physiotherapy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has been a recognised manipulative physiotherapist since 1986, managed several private practices in Sydney and coordinated postgraduate programs in manipulative physiotherapy at two Australasian universities. Dr Rivett is presently the Chairman of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA), the IFOMPT Member Organisation for Australia, and has served on professional standards bodies in both Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Rivett is the co-editor of the successful text ‘Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists’ published by Elsevier and is presently working with colleagues on an evidence-based text on the Mulligan Concept. He is the lead author of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s ‘Clinical Guidelines for Assessing Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency in the Management of Cervical Spine Disorders’. His main research interests are the benefits and risks of manual therapy in the cervical spine (including the validity of pre-manipulative screening) and clinical reasoning in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, areas in which he has extensively published and been invited to present both nationally and internationally. Dr Rivett is also a former Associate Editor for the journal Manual Therapy. He is a third generation manipulative practitioner. |
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John Langendoen, Member SC IFOMPT
John Langendoen, MSc, Grad.OMT, B.PT, is a private practitioner, an international consultant sports physiotherapist and lecturer in musculo-skeletal physiotherapy. He is a member of the IMTA teaching faculty and involved in various post-graduate programmes in OMT, while having led the OMT educational committee of the German DVMT 10 years till 2007.
John has 32 years of clinical experience in musculo-skeletal Physiotherapy. He owned and operated a private practice in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in the eighties, and in Kempten, Germany since 1989.
His main areas of interest are in manual and manipulative therapy, especially in the thoraco-cervical and cranio-mandibular region, topics he has taught both nationally and internationally. Thoracic outlet syndromes were the final topic of his MSc in pain management study at the UWCM in Cardiff. He is leading the interdisciplinary forum of cranio-facial syndromes IFCFS in Germany, an area of his interest since 20 years, educating health professionals towards optimal cooperation in this complex multifacetal field, also resulting in journal articles and international lectures, e.g. at IFOMPT conferences since 1996.
John’s experience in sports physiotherapy is extensive, ranging from being a therapist for players of Sparta Rotterdam in the eighties towards being a member of the medical staff of the Korean National Team at the FIFA World Cup 2002 and 2006 as well as of the Russian Icehockey Team since 2005. He has a special interest in pre-season screening and management of athletes with dysfunctional structures, recurrent injuries and suboptimal movement patterns. Over the years, the Korean experience with elastic taping has led to international recognized seminars on assessment related functional kinetic taping within the scope of OMT and sports physiotherapy.
He is currently one of the members of the IFOMPT Standards Committee.
Contact John:
Therapy4U
Pr-Goetz-Str 3
87439 Kempten
GERMANY
Phone: +49 152 049 777 88 +49 152 049 777 88
Email: john.langendoen@imta.ch |
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Karen Beeton, PhD, MPhy, BSc(Hons), FCSP, MMACP
I am currently an Associate Head in the School of Health and Emergency Professions at the University of Hertfordshire and Professional Lead for physiotherapy. My role includes teaching, management and leading on professional and commercial activities. The School offers a range of health related undergraduate and postgraduate Masters programmes including physiotherapy. Successful students who complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Physiotherapy (Neuromusculoskeletal) are eligible to join the MACP. From 2009 we will also offer an MSc in Sport and Exercise Rehabilitation. I am passionate about physiotherapists developing skills in qualitative research and currently teach qualitative methods at undergraduate and post graduate level as well as supervise undergraduate students who undertake a small qualitative group project in their final year. I also supervise Masters level qualitative projects.
I have been a member of the MACP since 1988 and was Chair of the MACP from 1997-2001. I completed a Masters in Physiotherapy Studies at the University of Queensland in 1993 and completed my PhD, a qualitative study exploring the impact of haemophilia on quality of life, in 2005.
I have been a member of the Standards Committee of IFOMPT since 2000. In addition I am a member of the Editorial Committee of Manual Therapy journal and am responsible for the masterclass section. Manual Therapy has recently increased its impact factor and retained its place as third in the rankings of rehabilitation journals. I also sit on the Editorial Board of Haemophilia journal. I am an external examiner for BSc (Hons) physiotherapy programme in Glasgow and am a past external examiner for a Masters physiotherapy programme at the University of Brighton. I have published a number of papers in peer reviewed journals and was the editor for two books of collated Manual Therapy masterclasses, one on the vertebral column and one on the peripheral regions.
I was very honoured to be awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in November 2008 for my contribution to professional practice, promotion of education and standards in clinical practice, research and development of the knowledge base of the profession.
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Dr Jan Pool PhD, MSc, Pt, MT.
After working in a physical therapy clinical practice Jan started a manual therapy practice in 1983 and moved on into part-time education in 1984. In 1989 he was appointed as a member of the board of the Dutch Association of Manual Therapy (NVMT). His mean interest was education and scientific development of manual therapy. In 1994 he was involved in a randomized clinical trial on neck pain at the VU University medical center in Amsterdam. In that time he finished a MSc in epidemiology. As a result he started a new RCT and wrote a PhD thesis regarding Neck Pain and completed his PhD in 2007 at the VU University.
Jan is currently program coordinator Master Manual Therapy at the University of Applied Science, Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands. This programme is an approved route leading to membership of the Dutch Member Organisation of IFOMT, the Dutch Association of Manual Therapy (NVMT). Furthermore he is working part-time in a clinical practice, Medical Centre IMPACT, in Zoetermeer the Netherlands.
Jan's research is focused on two aspects. Clinimetrics; validity, reproducibility, responsiveness and feasibility of measurements instruments, and the efficacy and effectiveness of manual therapy management in Neck Disorders. On both subjects he is still lecturing nationally and internationally, giving courses or presentations.
In addition to being Member of the Standards Committee for IFOMT since 1995, Jan organized several congresses on manual therapy in the Netherlands and was Chair of the Scientific Committee of the IFOMT congres 2008 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Contact Jan
Dr Jan Pool
Program coordinator Master Manual Therapy
University of Applied Science, Hogeschool Utrecht
Bolognalaan 101
3584 CJ Utrecht,
The Netherlands
+31 (0) 302585111
+31-(0)6 12126256
Ann Porter Hoke: PT, DPT, OCS, FCAMT, FAAOMPT
Ann Porter Hoke received her Diploma in Physiotherapy from St Thomas' Hospital (London) in 1971, her BSc PT from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) in 1982 and is currently completing a post professional doctorate at Pacific University, OR. She is a Fellow of both the Canadian and American Manual and Manipulation Academy and is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Specialist.
She trained and worked with James Cyriax MD in London, England London from 1971-72, with manual therapists in Vancouver, BC from 1972-82, and has been in clinical practice in Oregon since 1983, currently at New Heights Integrative Therapy in SE Portland.
She has served on numerous OMPT committees including the Standards Committee for the International Federation of Manipulative Therapists (IFOMT), Standards and Examination Committees for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT), and has been involved in the develop of publications that include the Description of Advanced Specialist Practice in OMPT(1998 and 2008). Her publications include "Causes of Lumbar Instability" and "Biomechanics of the Cervical Spine", both published in Orthopaedic Clinics of North America, Acceptance speech for the Mennell Award, and has developed NAIOMT course manuals over 16 years
She is a senior faculty member, senior examiner, clinical fellowship instructor and fellowship director with NAIOMT, and has 31 years of teaching and 37 years of clinical experience. She teaches all levels of NAIOMT core classes in mobilization /manipulation, specialty classes on spinal instability and subacute MVA, and provides off-site clinical instruction in Oregon and Washington.
Her awards include: Mercedes Weiss, OPTA, Oregon (1996) and the John McM Mennell Service Award by AAOMPT in 2006
Lorrie Maffey BMRPT, MPhty, DipManipPT, FCAMT
Lorrie has been involved in neuromusculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy clinical care since 1990. She became involved in teaching manual therapy for the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA) in the mid 1990’s and since then has also become an Examiner for the Orthopaedic Division of the CPA as well as an instructor for Gunn Intramuscular Stimulation(GunnIMS) and teaches courses on motor learning and muscle recruitment, anatomy, movement biomechanics, sport injury and injury prevention. She has spoken at many national and international conferences on these and other topic matters related to neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy.
Besides her interest in physiotherapy clinical education, Lorrie has been passionately devoted to educational standards for physiotherapists and is actively involved in national and international committees devoted to policy making and monitoring of such educational standards. For example she is the past Chair of the Orthopaedic Division Educational Committee (CPA), past Chair of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy (CAMT), present Chair of the Manual Therapy Steering Committee (MTSC), present member of the GunnIMS Educational Committee and present member of the IFOMPT Standards Committee.
Her own personal educational endeavors include being a Masters of Science candidate in the Facility of Medicine (Community Health Sciences) where her research involves injury prevention with elite level athletes as well as writing of articles in related topics, sitting on the editorial review boards of numerous physiotherapy related journals, investigating the use of Real Time Ultrasound in injury prevention, and the writing of book chapters for various books related to physiotherapy as well as yoga.
Contact Lorrie:
Lorrie Maffey
Tel: 406-673-3131
Email: maffey@ucalgary.ca
Email: standards@ifomt.org |
Standards Committee Group Photo - 2006
From left to right, back row: Darren Rivett, Jan Pool, Michael Ritchie, Lorrie Maffey. Front row: Alison Rushton, Karen Beeton, Ann Porter-Hoke. (Unable to attend: John Langendoen)
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