Meet our clinic team
Our busy teaching clinic in Bethnal Green treats a wide range of patients from across the local community. Our Clinic Manager Julia Empey heads up our team of clinical tutors who supervise, mentor and teach our osteopathy students.
Our supervision team are all qualified osteopaths who are registered with the General Osteopathic Council. During your treatment a clinic supervisor will oversee the treatment provided by our students.
Clinic Tutors
All of our clinical teaching team are involved in osteopathy practice outside of the teaching clinic and bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience which benefits both students and patients. Students are able to experience a wide range of specialisms during their clinical studies and this experience benefits patients and students. Our tutors special areas of interest include women’s health, paediatrics, sports rehabilitation, structural and cranial osteopathy and equine osteopathy.
Clinical Specialisms
As well as working in our clinic the tutors also practice outside of the clinic where they may have a particular focus or area of specialism. Our current tutors special areas of interest currently include women’s health, paediatrics, sports rehabilitation, structural and cranial osteopathy and equine osteopathy.
As part of our clinic offering we run a a specialist paediatric clinic on a Tuesday. Children and babies can also be seen on other days in the clinic.
Rehabilitation and Pain Management
Rehabilitation and Pain Management
Maria Hayes specialises in neck, back and joint pain and sciatica. Maria has significant experience in working with those who have sports injuries, arthritic pain, repetitive strain injuries, headaches and sinus pain.
Andrew Terry’s main area of interest is pain science and the treatment of persistent pain, where he has spent the last 5 years studying various areas of pain science with the intent of helping those who are in long-term pain.
Isabelle Tomkins uses osteopathic techniques to help patients return to and maintain a pain free and balanced state of health. She helps patients address the potential anxiety that often accompanies and influences physical pain. She combines her expertise in pathological processes to work in partnership with patients to identify causative and maintaining factors, along with any barriers to recovery. She has an interest in working with patients whose health has been impacted from extended periods of time in a screen-based work environment.
Daniel Warin combines classical osteopathy with the more modern-day science based approach delivering a rounded and complete form of treatment. Post graduation he has completed a cranial sacral osteopathic course
Robert Winiberg outside the LSO clinic works as a structural osteopath seeking to restore optimal functioning of the body by focusing on the musculoskeletal system to treat existing conditions and to prevent illness.
Cate Varnon has worked in a variety of NHS settings including in hospitals, GP practices and in private practice. As well as a clinic tutor at the LSO she is also our Student Advisor looking after the welfare of our students.
Sports Rehabilitation
Sports Rehabilitation
Julia Empey has post graduate qualifications in Medical Acupuncture and in Animal Osteopathy. She combines her knowledge of both human and animal osteopathy to treat in combination both horse and rider. Her work here is often around helping riders recover from injury.
George Durden comes from a competitive sports background and outside the LSO he has a specialist interest in the treatment of both amateur and elite athletes and the treatment of individuals experiencing the effects of repetitive movement overuse injuries.
Dan Kay has experience of using a range of physical therapies including; structural and cranial osteopathy to treat patients of all ages from adults through to adolescents, children and babies. He has a particular interest in the treatment of performing artists, cyclists, runners, sports injuries and the treatment of individuals with work related and repetitive movement overuse injuries.
Dawn Limbert comes from a competitive triathlon background and has a particular interest in treating patients with sporting injuries. In addition to her osteopathy degree she has also obtained a MSc In Osteopathic Sports Care.
Gavin Smith spent over ten years as a sports therapist and exercise coach prior to graduating from the LSO as an osteopath. In the past Gavin has worked with some of the top martial artists in the country including national champions and European and world medallists in Brazilian Jui Jitsu. He was also part of a team providing Osteopathic treatment to some of the countries top sprinters at the World Championship Trials in Birmingham.
Maria Hayes specialises in neck, back and joint pain and sciatica. Maria has significant experience in working with those who have sports injuries, arthritic pain, repetitive strain injuries, headaches and sinus pain.
Andrew Terry’s main area of interest is pain science and the treatment of persistent pain, where he has spent the last 5 years studying various areas of pain science with the intent of helping those who are in long-term pain.
Isabelle Tomkins uses osteopathic techniques to help patients return to and maintain a pain free and balanced state of health. She helps patients address the potential anxiety that often accompanies and influences physical pain. She combines her expertise in pathological processes to work in partnership with patients to identify causative and maintaining factors, along with any barriers to recovery. She has an interest in working with patients whose health has been impacted from extended periods of time in a screen-based work environment.
Daniel Warin combines classical osteopathy with the more modern-day science based approach delivering a rounded and complete form of treatment. Post graduation he has completed a cranial sacral osteopathic course
Robert Winiberg outside the LSO clinic works as a structural osteopath seeking to restore optimal functioning of the body by focusing on the musculoskeletal system to treat existing conditions and to prevent illness.
Cate Varnon has worked in a variety of NHS settings including in hospitals, GP practices and in private practice. As well as a clinic tutor at the LSO she is also our Student Advisor looking after the welfare of our students.
Women's health and paediatrics
Women’s health and paediatrics
Indera Ajimal had a 20 year career working in the NHS as a nurse, midwife and health visitor prior to qualifying as an osteopath. She holds a a postgraduate diploma in Women’s Health Osteopathy and plays an important role in our busy baby clinic.
Maria Hayes works alongside Yvette Taylor running our paediatric teaching clinic giving students observational experience of some of our youngest patients.
Rebecca Marchat has practiced both in France and the UK. She has a particular interest in treating babies and children along with Cranio-Sacral Osteopathy.
Yvette Taylor graduated from the LSO in 2013. She returned to the LSO to help run our paediatric teaching clinic along with Maria Hayes. This gives students the opportunity to gain observational experience of some of our youngest patients.
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