Physiocentric - Wimbledon

Originally from South Africa, Lucy has been working as part of the clinic's team for over 20 years. Lucy joined our reception team in 2003 and took over as Accounts Manager and IT Manager in 2005. In late 2013 Lucy took over as Practice Manager - her level head and expertise are invaluable to the smooth running of the service. Lucy is our guru for insurance queries and understands the individual requirements of each provider - she is the key to our very comprehensive service.

Having trained and qualified at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and as an acupuncturist at the British College of Acupuncture, London, Geoff worked in the NHS at St. Mary’s, The Royal London and St. Bartholomew’s Hospitals. He entered private practice in Wimbledon in 1989. His main interests are in the treatment of musculo-skeletal conditions, sports injuries, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries as well as the application of both Chinese and Western acupuncture. In 2000 he achieved an MSc in ‘Sports Injury and Therapy’, investigating ‘The Effects of Acupuncture on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness’. He is a member of the British Medical Acupuncture Association (BMAS) and an advanced member of the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP) of which he is a former committee member and journal editor. He has lectured on the Acupuncture MSc course at Coventry University and at Roehampton University on Sports injuries and treatment. Geoff enjoys treating a vast range of conditions, and has a particular interest in sport injuries, and has been physiotherapist to the LTA Junior tennis squad and Sutton Junior Scholarship squad (both formally based in Sutton). He has been physiotherapist to Welsh Exiles rugby covering u14-18 age groups. He is a former rugby player at Henley, London Welsh and St. Mary’s RFCs. In athletics he is a former Surrey County and Welsh Masters javelin champion. Geoff is a qualified level 2 rugby coach (having coached at London Welsh RFC and Welsh Exiles) and level 2 athletics coach at Kingston AC and Polytechnic Harriers. He currently holds a Sports Trauma Management qualification (approved by the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine Gold Level). He is married with two teenage children and has been a partner at Physiocentric since its inception.

Geoff hold clinics in both Wimbledon & Hinchley Wood.

Chris graduated with distinction from Guy’s Hospital in 1990 and began his career in the NHS working for the Greenwich Health Authority. Alongside his role as a senior out-patient therapist Chris began his role in the physiotherapy team at Fulham FC. He was soon appointed First Team Physiotherapist, and over the following ten years developed the role to head up the multidisciplinary Sports Medicine Team covering the entire professional squad. During this time Chris covered around 900 professional games and won 2 League Champions medals and three promotions. Chris has also worked with athletes from the Sierra Leone sprint team in preparation for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, as well as acting as physio for the England Legends team for Socceraid in 2006. Chris joined Physiocentric in 2001, and became a partner the following year. His work with elite athletes supplements a skill set aimed at achieving maximum results, which he enjoys applying to all injuries and conditions. Chris utilizes a predominantly manual therapy and corrective exercise based approach, and is also trained in the use of our isokinetic dynamometer. In his spare time Chris keeps fit by running, playing football and league cricket, as well as being involved with coaching both sports for his sons’ teams. He is also a Child Welfare officer and qualified cricket umpire! Chris offers clinics in both Wimbledon and Hinchley Wood.

Carol graduated from St Mary's Hospital in 1990. She then took on a rotational post which had established musculo-skeletal and orthopaedic placements for two years prior to focusing exclusively on outpatients, sports injuries and hydrotherapy. Carol has worked in a variety of London NHS Hospitals and also in Private Outpatient & Sport Injury Clinics. She completed an MSc in Neuro-Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation at the University College London in 1997. Carol’s continuing work at Charing Cross Hospital as an Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Practitioner helps her to continually develop her musculoskeletal expertise and introduces a current update to NHS practice. Her clinical specialist areas include spinal conditions, lower limb and sports injuries, primarily running injuries. After extensive assessment she incorporates rehabilitation and Pilates programmes into her clinical practice. Carol is a keen runner & dancer.

Carol offers Saturday clinics in Wimbledon.

Jane Hewitt qualified in 1990, and worked in the NHS for 14 years specializing in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. She completed her MSc in Physiotherapy (musculoskeletal) in 2000 at UCL and went on to work in a specialist orthopaedic and spinal surgery clinic as an extended scope practitioner. She started working at Physiocentric in 2004 and concurrently worked in occupational health for a large pharmaceutical company. Her interest in ergonomics and work relevant injury (RSI) developed during this time. Jane treats all areas of the body from early to late stage rehabilitation, and is also a member of the Acupuncture Association of Physiotherapists and the Association of Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics. Jane can perform workstation assessments for keyboard users in their own homes or at their place of work. Jane offers clinics in Wimbledon.

Jo has been committed to women’s health since she trained at St. Thomas’ Hospital, and currently also works within the Urology clinic at Queen Mary’s hospital, Roehampton.  She has worked in this field for 25 years, leading the women’s health physiotherapy team at St George’s hospital for 9 years, during which time she set up a multidisciplinary perineal clinic for women with severe perineal birth trauma.

She is a registered Mummy MOT practitioner, offering post natal checks from 6 weeks post birth onwards, see link

Treatment of third and fourth degree tears remains one of her key interests, as well as postnatal pelvic floor problems including bladder leakage (stress and urge incontinence) prolapse, pelvic floor muscle weakness, pain with sexual activity, bowel problems (including leakage) and pelvic pain. see link

1 in every 3 women are affected by women’s health problems over their lifetime, often becoming more noticeable around the Menopause – Jo is able to offer a broad range of treatments regarding symptoms, don’t sit and suffer!

Jo also enjoys an educational role, working with physiotherapy students at Kingston University, and is also a member of the POGP executive committee.

Jo holds clinics at our Hinchley Wood clinic. Find out more about

Women’s Health clinic.

Ann Garewal qualified with honours in Occupational Therapy from Brunel University in 1995. She specialised in Hand Therapy at UCLH in London in 1997 in the Plastics department where she treated a variety of hand trauma patients including both orthopaedic, plastic and also acquired conditions pre and post-surgery. She has over 15 years’ experience in Hand Therapy having had a career break to bring up her young family in intervening years.

Ann worked in the Congential Hand Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital for two years where she gained unrivalled experience in a wide spectrum of Congenital Hand Anomalies including radial club hand, cleft hand, hypoplastic thumbs, arthrogryposis and other conditions affecting the hand and upper limb.

Ann’s current NHS post is at the Regional Hand and Wrist Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she is a senior clinician. She manages the treatment and rehabilitation of hand and wrist patients following trauma and elective surgery and also assesses and treats congenital hand anomalies and acquired conditions of adult and paediatric patients.

Ann is extremely experienced in treating a wide spectrum of hand and wrist conditions and is dedicated to optimising her patient’s outcome. She is passionate about her continuous professional development and staying abreast of evidence-based practise, which she incorporates as best practice for her patients.

Ann also works in a voluntary capacity with “Working Hands Charity” which was set up and led by the eminent Hand Surgeon Donald Sammut. She is part of a small team of highly experienced Hand Surgeons, theatre nurse and Hand Therapists who travel to Nepal to train local surgeons and therapists to treat leprosy patients following restorative surgery.

Ann is situated at our Wimbledon Clinic located at The Wimbledon Club.

Gillian has a Level 5 BTEC Professional Diploma in Sports Massage and Treatments as well as a Diploma in Personal Training. She is a member of The Association for Soft Tissue Therapists.

Gillian has completed in many marathons and ultra-marathons including the London Marathon several times; the Thames Path 50; Beacons Ultra (47mile) and Marathon des Sables (154 mile multi stage race in the Sahara). Also a keen swimmer, preferring open water swimming, Gillian has done the Bridge to Bridge (14km); Jubilee River Swim (10km) and other long distance swims in rivers, lakes and seas. Gillian used to compete in triathlons but now focuses mainly on running and swimming.

Gillian is involved with youth and mini rugby at Wimbledon Rugby Club as a First-Aid Co-ordinator; Qualified time keeper and ASA Level 1 Swimming judge.

Having two children who are both keen on sport, Gillian is also interested in going to the theatre; visiting galleries and exhibitions; music; cooking; walking and hiking.

Gillian is situated at our Hinchley Wood Clinic and offers home visit Sports Massage around the Wimbledon area.