In April 2012, Jo set up North London Neuro Physio.

Jo qualified with a graduate diploma from King’s College Hospital School of Physiotherapy in 1990 and has specialised in neurology since 1992. In 2000 she completed a Masters degree in neurorehabilitation at Brunel University.

She has worked in several NHS hospitals including the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, King’s College Hospital and at the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU), Homerton Hospital where she was the Clinical Specialist physiotherapist in neurology. In addition, she has worked at a specialist neurorehabilitation clinic in southern Germany.

Since 2006 Jo has been working in private practice. She was Practice Director of the Hampstead Physiotherapy Practice for 6 years where she also set up a neurology service.

An active member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) she was on the executive committee for 10 years and Co Chairman from 2008 to 2010.

Jo continues to lead North London Neuro Physio with her partner Helle Sampson. She also volunteers for the stroke charity, Different Strokes London North where she leads one of their Wednesday classes every month.

Helle joined North London Neuro Physio as a partner in April 2013.

Helle qualified with a BSc (1st class Hons) from King’s College London in 1998. She has specialised in neurological physiotherapy since 2000 working as a senior neuro physiotherapist at the Homerton Hospital and King’s College Hospital. In 2006 she took up the role of clinical lead physiotherapist in the neuro rehabilitation team in Southwark, providing community services to the local acute trusts of King’s College and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals.

Helle completed her MSc in Physiotherapy (with distinction) at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, in 2011. She is passionate about encouraging physical activity and exercise participation in people with neurological conditions. In Southwark she was responsible for the management and sustainability of an innovative physio-led gym exercise group “Physio Pulse”, run in collaboration with Southwark Council in a local leisure centre. Currently she leads PD Zoom, a twice weekly online Parkinson’s specific exercise class.

Helle is an active member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) and was a committee member of the London Region for several years until 2018, having been chairman from 2012 to 2016.

Penny qualified with a BSc (Hons) from the University of Brighton in 1997. She has worked in various London NHS hospitals and specialised in neurology since 1999.

She worked as the lead physiotherapist for orthotics at the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU) at Homerton Hospital. Prior to this, she managed the multi-disciplinary RNRU Outreach Team, who specialise in treating neurology patients in the community and worked on the RNRU inpatient unit. She completed her MSc in Physiotherapy at the University of East London in 2011.

Penny is PD Warrior trained with experience of working with people with Parkinson’s disease. She is skilled in using neuro muscular electrical stimulation with the upper limb in neurological patients. She has a particular interest and experience in aquatic therapy and vestibular rehabilitation.

Penny is a certified Yoga teacher and enjoys making Yoga accessible to people with neurological conditions. Details of her yoga work can be found at www.pennyyogaphysio.co.uk

Penny has been working in private practice since 2011.

Jayne graduated with a Graduate Diploma from Bath School of Physiotherapy in 1985 and has specialised in the field of neurology and neuro rehabilitation since 1987. She spent 5 years working in Spaulding Rehabiliation Hospital in Boston, USA where she developed a greater depth and understanding of the rehabilitation of patients who had suffered stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury as well as patients with an oncology diagnosis.

Jayne returned to the UK and worked in a number of NHS hospitals including the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disabilty in Putney. She was Therapy Manager leading a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team within a private London hospital until 2000. Since this time she has been working within the field of community neuro rehabilitation.

Jayne has a special interest in the assessment of appropriate seating of the complex disabled person, gait rehabilitation and orthotics.

Andrea qualified with a BSc in Physiotherapy in 1995 from Kings College, London after gaining a BA in Human Movement Studies in 1990. She has worked in a variety of settings at Homerton Hospital and Guy & St Thomas’ and led the Oncology team at Guys before returning to Homerton to specialise in Neurology in 2002. There she worked in the Stroke Unit, Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU) and the Outreach Team specialising in acquired brain injury in the community.

She completed her MSc in Rehabilitation at St George’s University, London in 2009. Following this she gained an extra MSc module in injection therapy from Plymouth University and has been an injecting clinician in the Botulinum Toxin Spasticity clinic at the RNRU since 2012.

Andrea was a committee member of the London Region of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) for several years until 2019.

Emma gained her BSc (Hons) in physiotherapy from Kings College London University in 2001 and has specialised in neurology since 2003. She worked in the NHS in several senior roles at King’s College Hospital from 2006 to 2018 including 6 years as joint team lead for the acute neurorehabilitation team.

Emma joined North London Neuro Physio in 2018. She uses her extensive experience of managing a broad range of neurological conditions across various settings (acute, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient and community) to provide individually tailored care and is passionate about enabling everyone to be active. She is trained in applied Pilates and set up a Parkinson’s specific group exercise class in 2019, which continues to run today as the successful PD Fit @ Jacksons Lane. Emma has a special interest in dizziness and balance and works as a specialist vestibular physiotherapist in Hertfordshire Community NHS trust as well as providing vestibular expertise to the North London Neuro Physio team.

Glenn qualified with a BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy from Curtin University in Western Australia. He began his career in Australia before moving to London and starting work at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2007. He was awarded an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellowship in 2014 and while working at the National Hospital he completed his PhD at the UCL Institute of Neurology on the topic of physiotherapy for functional neurological disorder (FND).

In 2017 he took up a clinical academic post at St George’s University of London where he leads a specialist physiotherapy service for FND and is an active member of the Motor Control and Movement Disorders research group. He is currently leading a large multicentre randomised controlled trial of physiotherapy for FND.

Glenn has experience in broad range of neurological disorders, including movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and dystonia. He has a special interest in functional motor symptoms (FND) and he has published a number of academic articles and textbook chapters on this topic. He is also a committee member for London Association of Charted Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN).

Chris has 30 years’ experience as a physiotherapist and lecturer. His particular interests are neurological rehabilitation, patient and public involvement, quality improvement and the effect of policy and politics on health and social care services. He has worked extensively with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and the NHS to support these. He is also a committee member for the London branch of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN).

Chris qualified with a Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy in 1991. He completed a MSc in Neurorehabilitation from Brunel University in 1999.

Chris worked in a variety of community and hospital settings for 12 years predominantly with people with neurological conditions before lecturing in physiotherapy for 18 years.

Chris has been working exclusively in private practice since July 2021.

Charlotte qualified with a BSC (hons) in Physiotherapy in 2006 from Birmingham University and has specialised in Neurology since 2009. She has extensive experience in a broad range of neurological conditions since working in inpatient and community settings in the NHS. She has led a multi-disciplinary stroke rehabilitation team, been the lead physiotherapist for a community Neuro team and worked as a highly specialised physiotherapist at the Regional Neuro Rehabilitation Unit at Homerton Hospital. She has also volunteered in India providing a physiotherapy service to young adults and training to local therapists and carers.

Charlotte is trained in the Bobath concept and prides herself on treating people holistically to improve their movement. She has also undertaken training in electrical stimulation, orthotics and Pilates.

Sally qualified with a graduate diploma from Addenbrooke’s School of Physiotherapy, Cambridge in 1993. She has specialised in neurology since 1995, working both clinically and in physiotherapy education. Her clinical work has spanned from inpatient neurosurgery to community rehabilitation.

She completed her MSc from UCL in 2002 and then her PhD, also from UCL, in 2023.

Sally current runs an MSc programme at UCL, providing education to qualified physiotherapists who are looking to extend their expertise in neurophysiotherapy. She is an active member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) having been Chair of the London region from 2016-2019.