Julie Jones is a physiotherapist with a specialist interest in Parkinson’s.
Julie is a clinical academic fellow, jointly funded by Parkinson’s UK and the Chief Scientist Office and is a senior lecturer at Robert Gordon University. She is also a member of the Strategy Advisory board of Parkinson’s UK in Scotland and chairs the Scotland wide Parkinson’s Active project. She is also a member of the Parkinson’s UK College of Experts grant review panel, and sits on the Research Participation Steering Group at Parkinson’s UK. Within the Parkinson’s Excellence Network, Julie is the co-lead of the Exercise hub, which runs education events to support exercise professionals nationally to improve and develop service provision for people with Parkinson’s.
Julie’s current role spans research, clinical and academic. Julie is currently funded to explore the feasibility of a collaborative approach to exercise delivery between the UK National Health Service (NHS) and the community sector. Julie has an honorary physiotherapy position within NHS Grampian, and her main clinical interests include exercise and gait dysfunction.
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Really looking forward to that Michel, such an important profession in dealing and helping with movement disorders. I enjoyed the last presentation from ‘No Silver Bullet’ and learnt so much from Dr Rick Heimich as regards stress in PD.
Thanks so much for all you do in putting on these presentations.
On another note I’ ve been looking for a Neuro Physiotherapist locally to help my husband manage back issues but so far haven’t found anyone who specialises in PD.
Thank you very much for your message and support. Bas Bloem explained to us why exercise is critical to us and we wanted to delve deeper into what to do and how. This is what this session with Julie is all about.
She was the key speaker at Parkinson’s UK conference last year and I am really looking forward to her presentation and Q&A.
As far as back problems are concerned (something I suffer from on a chronic basis), I found that acupuncture helps me. But your husband’s circumstances might be different.
Thanks for your message. My husband has tried acupuncture before for his shoulder when it was injured but not tried it on his back. He also has a chronic back issue that happened before PD but has got much worse since dx. He has had injections under anaesthetic and nerve ablation which worked for a while but has now reverted back to being painful. Tried osteopathy and only had a limited amount of pain relief.
My husband says it really is the worst symptom he has to deal with as the others are more manageable and back pain makes exercise, other than walking so difficult.
I think that is the therapy he has had with nerve block ablation, which did work for a while but then it has reverted back to being painful again. Thanks for your help.
It's me again. i cut myself off. I wanted to add that I started fast walking in 1994 and my movement symptoms had all disappeared by 1997. I have been PD meudication-free since 1998 , but during the past four or five years I have been unable to do a lot of walking, due to other health problems and my bad walking an bad balance have returned.
We were fortunate enough to see Julie’s lecture given to the Parkinson’s Society Edinburgh branch last year.Fascinating,practical and encouraging.She really encouraged us to widen out in our exercises whatever our abilities.My husbands physiotherapist was trained by Julie and is an inspiration to us.
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