Jane has a wide and varied background - from being a PA to managing administrative activities for the Youth Hostel Association, she has been a self defence instructor in the police service and runs her own business. Jane is the friendly voice on the end of the office phone and helps keep track of Heather and the Designed2move team. In her spare time Jane enjoys finding good coffee shops, eating out, walking, jogging and spending time with her boys.
A bit more about Designed2Move...
Designed2Move has been providing active rehabilitation to individuals, case managers, solicitors, insurers and employers since 2011. I have been going out there and doing what I love to do, helping and inspiring others to rediscover their potential and joy in life after injury or illness, and along the way improved my own health & well being and job satisfaction too.
In 2016 “I” has become “we” as I have been starting to build a team of talented professionals who have the same aspirations so we can provide our rehabilitation service to more people around the UK. Please go to the section of the website that most suits you – individual private clients, case managers (and solicitors and insurers) and employers and get in touch to find out how we can help you.
You are designed to move. It may not always feel like it, and you may not be altogether sure whether it is always good for you, but our bodies are incredible machines that thrive on movement. I have just been catching up on the first of the Royal Institution lectures – “Meet Your Brain”. This is the kind of science that makes me fascinated by the human being, the human body and the human mind and how they all interact together. When I headed out from University as a newly qualified physio, I thought I had learnt all I needed to start my career and do a good job. So, it was a bit of a shock to realise that really most of us graduates of any type of medical training have only just scratched the surface of understanding the human being, and basically are doing ok if we can stick to the adage of “do no harm”. If we can actually do some good and help someone then that was a bonus!
Many years on, I continue to learn more and more, and in fact the more I learn the more I realise there is to know and therefore the less I seem to really understand, and the more there seems to be to find out about! (I think it is called conscious incompetence, but, just to reassure you, I think I have a good dose of competence too now after all these years!) but one thing I always hear myself telling my clients is “Our bodies are designed to move” – hence the company name and the underlying philosophy behind what I am aiming to do. It is easy to get overwhelmed with all the information we are swamped with in this increasingly technological world (I am simultaneously downloading the Carnival of the Animals to my son’s new ipod – an amazing creative human endeavour), and in the field of physiotherapy people are always looking for that latest technique, the newest breakthrough treatment to get rid of pain or restore function.
With so many things though we are in danger of chucking the baby out with the bath water. Physiotherapy started out as being about being “a treatment discipline ancillary to medicine that uses physical methods such as active or passive exercises, gymnastics, weight lifting, heat treatment, massage, ultrasound … and hydrotherapy. Physiotherapists aim to restore the maximum possible degree of function to any disabled part of the body and are also much concerned the patient motivation” (Collins Dictionary of Medicine 1992 – when I started my training!). While many of us still use these techniques, we occasionally lose sight of the value of the simplicity of some of these approaches – the value of active exercise and just getting moving again is often forgotten.
Designed2Move is about getting back to the basics and doing it well.
We are UK based team of specialist physiotherapists who provide bespoke rehabilitation and pain management for active people who have suffered severe or multiple injury but still haven’t been able to resume their physically demanding jobs or hobbies.
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“Since my accident (3 yrs ago) I’ve received a lot of excellent physio but Designed2Move has helped me back on the road to more outdoor walking and rock climbing, which a year ago I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to do again.”
