Other

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Optometry and eye care
Regions Covered
North West, Yorkshire and Humberside
Address
Holmfirth / Huddersfield / Yorkshire / Greenfield / Oldham / Meltham / Greater Manchester / Cheshire / Derbyshire / Lancashire
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
FBDO
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Understands performers' complex eyesight needs including visual fields and working distances, and reading notation while also focusing on the working environment and fellow performers. Part of the team at Allegro Optical, Meltham, Holmfirth.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Neurodiversity / learning difference or disability, Paediatrics / children, Teaching / coaching / education
Regions Covered
Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Online
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
Masters in Education (M Ed) distinction - University of Birmingham, 2022; PG Cert Language Literacies and Dyslexia - University of Birmingham, 2016; CPT3A - Dyslexia Action, 2013; AMBDA
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Alicia Johnson is a Specialist Teacher and SpLD (Specific Learning Differences) Assessor. She holds a Masters in Education (MEd) and has fifteen years' experience working in education with ten years working in Special Educational Needs (SEN). Alicia is skilled in assessing for dyslexia and works with students with traits of ADHD and developmental coordination disorder (DCD).

Alicia provides comprehensive reports detailing individuals' learning strengths and challenges. This includes recommendations for study and self-development. Alicia specialises in recommendations for musicians to enable them to better access their studies.

Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Optometry and eye care
Regions Covered
North West, Yorkshire and Humberside, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Yorkshire / Lancashire - Greenfield, Marsden, Meltham
Practitioner Name
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

The clinical team at Allegro Optical are experts on the specific eye-care needs of those in the performing arts. For example, performers may need to quickly read detailed musical scores, change focus between near and far sight, and have a good sense of spatial awareness. Services include sight tests, dispensing musicians' lenses, and advice on all aspects of eye health. Allegro Optical are based in West Yorkshire and Lancashire with three locations in Greenfield, Marsden and Meltham. An on-site eyecare service is also available for ensembles and organisations.

About Companies and Group Practices listed on the BAPAM Directory

Broad Category
Profession
Regions Covered
East
Address
West Suffolk
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
2013 British Resus Council: Advanced Life Support, 2013 Qualified Educational Supervisor Programme Part 1 and 2, 2012 FRCP (London), 2006 MA Medical Ethics, University of Swansea, 2006 British Resus Council: Advanced Life Support, 2000 MRCP (London), 1997 BM BCh, Balliol College, Oxford, 1989 MA Natural Sciences, New Hall, Cambridge
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS status unconfirmed - we advise you to check these details with this practitioner
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Catherine Bevington is an experienced NHS Consultant Rheumatologist who sees patients including musicians and performers with musculoskeletal injuries and issues at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmonds. Patients in the local area can be referred to her by their NHS GP. She is used to working in multidisciplinary teams, liaising closely with physiotherapy, occupational therapy and other therapy colleagues. She is a keen choral singer and is a graduate of the Performing Arts Medicine postgraduate programme at UCL.

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Optometry and eye care
Regions Covered
North West
Address
Greenfield / Oldham / Meltham / Greater Manchester / Cheshire / Derbyshire / Lancashire
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
Registered Dispensing Optician 2004
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Claire has been in the optical industry for 20 years and reading music since the age of 7. Works with many clients throughout the creative sector. Awareness of how posture and varying focal distances affect the eyesight requirements of arts professionals. Based at Allegro Optical in Greenfield and Meltham.

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Jaw / temporomandibular joint (TMJ)
Regions Covered
London, South East, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Weybridge, Surrey
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MClinDent
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Gulamali's patients include musicians, voiceover artists, actors and models, and a culture is in place that values the significance of their oral and dental health to their careers extending over many years. Dentures, tooth wear, dental implant complications, missing/failing teeth, injury/trauma. Brass and woodwind instrumentalists benefit from the specialist skills available in the practice for advice and treatment of embouchure problems involving the teeth and muscles of the mouth and jaw. Corrections of tooth positions and angulations for improved embouchure formation, fixed bridgework and implant stabilised dentures are all available to improve and extend musical careers. String instrumentalists benefit from the improvement and treatment of face and neck muscle pain and the associated dental discrepancies that may contribute to this condition, easing discomfort and possible over-use injury.

Now offering specialist oral surgery treatment including complex extractions and minor oral surgeries. Specialising also in gum disease - periodontist, and root canal - endodontist.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health
Regions Covered
West Midlands
Address
Birmingham
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBS (2014); MRCGP (2020); BSc (2009); MBBS (2014); MRCGP (2020); BSc (2009);
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Website
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Amal Lad is a GP and musician treating general and performance specific physical and mental health problems. This would include depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal pain and all problems normally assessed and treated in general practice. He is passionate about finding new ways to support people working in the performing arts. He is also musician and he has composed music for a number of projects including film, theatre and released his personal music on streaming platforms which can be found on his website. Currently, Amal is preparing the release of new experimental music, while continuing his work in medicine.

“As a musician, I have a deep understanding and appreciation for mental and physical wellbeing in order to be able to create music. Creativity empowers me and is needed for personal wellbeing.”

Amal is British Indian and a trustee of South Asian Health Foundation (SAHF) – a charity addressing health inequalities in the South Asian community, where he is involved in the SAHF fellowship and community engagement working group.

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, NHS consultations (including Choose and Book), Pain management / Chronic pain, Teaching / coaching / education
Regions Covered
London, Central London, West London, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
London, Marylebone / BMI Clementine Churchill Hospital, Harrow (NHS Choose & Book + Private)
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBCHIR (1986), FRCS (1993), FRCS (SN) (2001), BSc Pyschology (1979), PhD Drug Abuse (2003), AoEC accreditation 2017
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Anne Mitchener is a highly experienced Spinal Neurosurgeon and executive coach (work performance). She practises privately at the Schoen Clinic, Wigmore Street, London and at the BMI Clementine Churchill Hospital where NHS patients can be referred by their NHS GP using the Choose & Book eReferral system.

Dr Mitchener sees performing artists for assessment, advice and conservative treatment measures for back and spinal pain, sciatica, degenerative spinal conditions, pain management, carpal tunnel syndrome. She performs spinal surgery for NHS and private patients offering a complete outpatient and inpatient service. She is a member of the British Association of Spinal Surgeons, Society of British Neurological Surgeons with over twenty years’ experience of spinal surgery.

Clinical Interests

  • Cervical Spine microdiscectomy and fusion
  • Cervical Disc replacement
  • Cervical laminectomy/foraminotomy
  • Lumbar Spinal laminectomy/foraminotomy
  • Lumbar microdiscectomy
  • All spine degenerative conditions - operative and injection
  • Carpal Tunnel Decompression
Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Pain management / Chronic pain
Regions Covered
London, North London, South East
Address
London, St John's Wood / Hampstead
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBS, LRCP MRCS, FFARCS (FRCA), FRCP, FFPMRCA
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Anthony Ordman is a highly experienced Consultant in Pain Medicine, familiar with musicians' medical and pain management needs, and expert in long-term pain and related conditions including spinal or musculoskeletal pain, nerve pain, and the effects of adverse psychological states on pain. He is also a specialist in using cannabis-based medicines. Dr Ordman is the Honorary Medical Adviser to the Royal Society of Musicians and a member of BAPAM's Medical Committee. He is is a keen musician and singer himself.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic, NHS consultations (including Choose and Book)
Regions Covered
London, Central London, South London
Address
London, Brixton and Pimlico (NHS), BAPAM
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBS MRCEM MRCGP MPH
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
This practitioner has confirmed their professional registration, insurance and DBS are up to date
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Sriskantharajah Arun-Castro is a GP with a background in Emergency Medicine and considerable experience of medical provision at major festivals, concerts and sporting events.

He has worked as a doctor in pre-hospital care teams at Glastonbury, Reading and Download Festivals as well as London Stadium.

As a festival doctor he became more aware of the physical and mental strains experienced by performing artists ranging from fatigue to acute pain and stress reactions on tour. This experience piqued his interest in the wellbeing of performers and lead to his involvement with BAPAM.

He has experience in musculoskeletal health and continues to work in elite sport providing medical cover for professional rugby and motor racing at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit .

He is familiar with the assessment and initial management of issues such as repetitive strain injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, upper and lower limb musculoskeletal conditions, insomnia, anxiety and depression, adjustment reactions, acute and chronic pain management and assessment of fatigue.

During lockdown 2020, Arun contributed as an editor and chapter author to the Music Industry Therapists Collective’s Touring & Mental Health Manual http://musicindustrytherapists.com .

As a hobby he hosts the The Roadie Medic Podcast that takes a look at the merging scenes of live music, festivals, pre-hospital care and public health.

He is British Asian (Sri Lankan) and is interested in diversity, world music & second and third generation migrant experiences. He is an NHS GP for patients registered at Victoria Medical Centre in Pimlico, and a BAPAM Assessing GP.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, NHS consultations (including Choose and Book), Singers and professional voice users
Regions Covered
West Midlands, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Solihull / Birmingham / UK-wide
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBS MRCP CCT FCCP FRCP
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Arun Dev Vellore is a specialist in Respiratory Medicine, Internal Medicine, Occupational & Environmental disease, Interstitial Lung Disease, experienced working with performers such as vocalists or wind players with respiratory disorders, and performance professionals with worsening lung function.

Conditions managed include: Intractable cough. Vocal cord dysfunction. Hyperventilation syndromes. Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. Disability arising from chest trauma. Chronic Chest pain. Cardiac Failure. Occupational Lung Disease. Chest Medicine, General Medicine, Occupational Medicine.

Dr Vellore is an NHS consultant at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

He provides online consultations to any BAPAM-registered patients worldwide, and in-person in Birmingham.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic, NHS consultations (including Choose and Book)
Regions Covered
Northern Ireland
Address
Belfast
Practitioner Name
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
This practitioner has confirmed their professional registration, insurance and DBS are up to date
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Christine Hunter has considerable experience as a health adviser to musicians, creative professionals and performance students. She is an NHS and BAPAM GP in Belfast and the Medical Adviser to the Ulster Orchestra.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic
Regions Covered
West Midlands
Address
BAPAM Clinic, Birmingham
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBS, MRCGP, MA (ethics and medical law), Diploma (practical dermatology)
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Performing Arts Medicine GP assessments at the BAPAM Clinic at Birmingham Conservatoire. Grade 8 singer, piano player and violinist. Assessments and management advice for mental health and physical problems of students and professionals in the performing arts.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic
Address
BAPAM, London
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBS, MRCP, MRCGP, MPH, GMC
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Fozia Hamid combines her clinical expertise and interest in music and the performing arts in her work at BAPAM, where she advises professional and student performers and creative practitioners about a wide spectrum of physical and mental health concerns relating to their work. She is an NHS GP based in London.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, NHS consultations (including Choose and Book)
Regions Covered
Central London, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
London, information on request
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MA MBBS DRCOG MRCGP DipFSRH
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

NHS GP and Medical Adviser to the South Bank Sinfonia.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic, NHS consultations (including Choose and Book)
Regions Covered
North West
Address
BAPAM Clinic, Liverpool / Manchester / Cheshire
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MB BCh BAO, MRCGP, DSFRH, ATLS, MSc PAM
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr McKavanagh is an NHS and BAPAM GP who holds BAPAM clinics in Liverpool and Manchester and helps artists and creative practitioners with a range of physical and mental health concerns. She is a graduate of the UCL Performing Arts Medicine MSc programme.

She is an experienced Doctor who has worked in the NHS for 35 years, and also a performing musician who has performed in solo recitals, and worked as an accompanist for ABRSM and LCM music examinations. She holds an LTCL in Piano Performance and has played violin, viola, clarinet, celtic harp and vibraphone in the past. She have also sung soprano in a chamber choir for the past 20 years.

Special interests include disorders affecting instrumental musicians, particularly overuse musculoskeletal and neurological injuries, focal musicians dystonias and cognitive, hearing and other sensory conditions,sexual and reproductive health and travel medicine.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic; NHS consultations (including Choose and Book)
Regions Covered
North East
Address
Newcastle upon Tyne
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
BA (Hons), MBBS (Hons), MRCGP
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

GP working in community psychiatry. Special interest in mental health in the arts, as well as nutrition and lifestyle. Worked as a theatre costume designer before training as a doctor. Keen singer and instrumentalist who works with Jazz North East. Works within the NHS in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and is the BAPAM GP at our clinic at the Sage, Gateshead.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic
Regions Covered
North East, Yorkshire and Humberside, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
North East, Yorkshire and Humberside
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBChB 2003, MRCGP 2007, DFSRH 2008, DRCOG 2012, MPH 2018
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Nina Amedzro is an experienced NHS GP and a BAPAM Assessing Clinician in the Northeast, Yorkshire & Humberside. She has a special interest in performers’ health. A musician herself, who attended a specialist music school and played in youth orchestras. Since qualifying as a doctor in 2003, she has helped many performance professionals and students with physical and mental health concerns including musculoskeletal pains, poor posture, performance anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, tinnitus, vocal problems and hearing issues.

“Working with BAPAM lets me unite my passion for music and performance with my skills as an experienced GP, so that musicians can access good healthcare and enjoy health and wellbeing".

In her spare time, Nina enjoys watching her favourite bands, discovering new music and playing in a local amateur orchestra.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic
Regions Covered
East
Address
Thetford / Cambridge / Norwich
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBBS, MSc PAM
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
This practitioner has confirmed their professional registration, insurance and DBS are up to date
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

BAPAM and NHS GP. Advises all performing arts professionals and students about work-related health problems, and is a graduate of the UCL Performing Arts Medicine MSc programme. NHS practice at Grove Surgery, Thetford (only NHS patients registered at the practice can be seen here).

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, NHS consultations (including Choose and Book)
Regions Covered
South East, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Chiltern
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
BSc, MBBS, DRCOG, JCPTGP, Dip Occ Med
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

NHS and private GP and Occupational Health Physician who has worked at BAPAM London as an Assessing Clinician advising performing arts professionals and students about all work/study-related problems. AMABO Medical Adviser to the Philharmonia Orchestra. Keen clarinet player who has played and toured with orchestras including the World Doctors Orchestra.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic, Breathing techniques
Regions Covered
Scotland, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Edinburgh / Glasgow
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
BSc Hons (Pharmacology), MBChB, DRCOG, MSc Performing Arts Medicine
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Pippa Wheble is an NHS and BAPAM GP, and a graduate of the Performing Arts Medicine MSc programme at UCL. She has special interests in anxiety management and breathing techniques. Her other interests in the context of General Practice include holistic and integrated health care, occupational health, women's health, ophthalmology. She is a keen singer and instrumentalist, playing violin, viola, saxophone and piano, and she has also trained in dance. She is a BAPAM assessing clinician and the lead facilitator for our Community Drop In peer support sessions.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, BAPAM Clinic, Hypermobility / EDS management, Teaching / coaching / education, Travel health / medicals / vaccinations / tropical medicine
Regions Covered
London, Central London, West London
Address
BAPAM London / Private appointments at the Sloane Street Surgery
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MBChB BSc
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Dr Tamara Cohen is a GP and health coach with a special interest in mental health, functional medicine and the performing arts. She holds a free clinic at BAPAM for professional and student creative practitioners and is a member of the BAPAM Medical Committee. She is also a singer, performer and member of an amateur musical theatre company, therefore has personal experience of the joys and anxieties within the field. She also consults on sexual health, gynaecology, pre-screening for cruise ship work, joint injuries, fatigue, hypermobility.

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Optometry and eye care
Regions Covered
North West, Yorkshire and Humberside
Address
West Yorkshire, Meltham
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
BSc (Hons) Optometry (July 2008), Professional Practical Exams (Jan 2010), Professional Certificate in Glaucoma (Jan 2017)
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Elizabeth Susan Holmes is an experienced optometrist who has gained higher professional qualifications in Minor Eye Conditions and has a Certificate in Glaucoma from The College of Optometrists. Elizabeth enjoys talking to her clients about their lifestyle and how that relates to their eyewear needs. She has worked with musicians and vocalists from a variety of backgrounds, dancers/performers, actors, producers and technicians.  She helps with visual correction for performance professionals when spectacles are not appropriate, and with visual stress when reading text/music. She also treats clients for dry eyes, double vision, and other eye conditions.

In her spare time, Elizabeth loves to make music and is a talented Pianist and Clarinetist. She has taken advanced clarinet lessons at the Royal Northern College of Music. She was Principal Clarinetist in the University of Bradford Symphony Orchestra, a member of the City of Hull Youth Symphonic Wind Band, and has played professionally for bands and events.

Elizabeth is registered with General Optical Council (GOC), Association of Optometrists (AOP), Ophthalmic Performers list (OPL), and NHS.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Teaching / coaching / education, Technique / ergonomics / posture / instruments / props / equipment
Regions Covered
London, North London, South East
Address
Islington, London, Reading
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
MSTAT
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Jessica Lee Morgan is an Alexander Technique teacher and singer songwriter and recording artist. Jessica has worked with vocalists and instrumentalists on posture training and psychophysical improvement. She can help with issues relating to voice use, preventing performance related pain and overuse/RSI-related problems, stress and anxiety management, and performance wellbeing.

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Exercise, Teaching / coaching / education
Regions Covered
London, North London, South East
Address
Bexley, Camden, Islington, London
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
ITG First Aid at Work Instructor 2021, Active IQ Level 3 Award in Education and Training 2016, Studio Master Certification Body Control Pilates 2011, Professional Dancers Teaching Diploma RAD 1997
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Linda Dixon is an experienced Pilates teacher, teacher trainer, RAD ballet teacher, former professional dancer and examiner. She has over three decades of experience of movement practice; performing, teaching and examining all over the world. She has been practicing Pilates since the mid 80’s and teaching it since 2002. During this time she has developed her teaching methods producing her own unique approach to movement teaching. This approach incorporates the knowledge skills she has accumulated through a lifetime of structured movement practice. Linda teaches at NRG Pilates, and heads up the treatment and performance enhancement department at ‘The Urdang’ in City University of London’s Department of Performing Arts.

Additionally, Linda is a member of the teacher training team for Body Control Pilates specialising in teaching on the studio equipment courses and the level 4 Pilates courses. She has also played an integral part in course development at Body Control, writing their “Adolescent’s Course” and co writing their “Dancer’s Course” with her husband Nathan Gardner.

Linda is experienced in working with dancers and musical theatre performers.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Neurodiversity / learning difference or disability, Teaching / coaching / education
Regions Covered
Wales, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Cwmifor, Swansea, Carmarthen & online
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
BA(Hons), PGCE(FE), PG Dip SEN (dyslexia), PATOSS
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Megan Longville is an experienced Dyslexia Diagnostician and 1-1 Study Skills Tutor. She supports artists and creative practitioners with skill strategies relating to essays, revision/memory, presentations, research, challenges associated with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and ADD including short term memory, speed of processing issues, spelling, analytical/critical writing, proof reading and editing, presentation and performance.

In her experience of 28 years, Megan has worked with many students and professionals who have been creative artists such as graphic designers, illustrators, textile designers, stage and set designers, musicians and singers.

Course programmes include written studies and dissertations and despite students’ extremely high musical/theatrical abilities, end grades may be severely hampered by specific learning challenges such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD or ADD. Through her work, Megan aims to help level the playing field in the form of academic study support, enabling more automatous learning. She has taught for many universities in Wales and England and now teaches privately via an agency and independent requests, online and face to face.

Broad Category
Services, therapies, and modalities
Pain management / Chronic pain, Teaching / coaching / education
Regions Covered
London, Central London, West London, South East, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Chelsea and Harley Street, London / New Malden
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
P2000 Dip Adult Nursing, BSc (Hons) Sport Rehabilitation & Sport Science, BSc Physiotherapy, MSc Pain, MCSP, HCPC
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Richmond Stace is a Specialist Pain Physiotherapist who works with performance professionals and others who are struggling to overcome persistent and chronic pain and movement problems or disorders. He is experienced working with multidisciplinary colleagues to address complex physical and psychological support needs. His approach combines coaching and clinical care to support clients through a pain management programme tailored to their needs. Richmond's practice is most relevant to people who:

  • have had pain and problems for a long time
  • have seen many doctors and therapists
  • can’t live the life that they want - home, work, play
  • have pain that they don’t understand
  • are not getting better
  • have pain that won’t go away
  • are scared of their pain
  • feel stuck and miserable

His aim is to help people:

  • understand their pain
  • know how to get better
  • focus on the ways of overcoming pain
  • learn the skills of well-being
  • perform in life - at home, at work, at play
  • get better and live meaningfully

Richmond is a Chartered Physiotherapist and registered with the HCPC. Originally training as a Registered General Nurse (Brighton University) in the early 90’s, he developed an interest in pain whilst observing the varying responses in recovery after operations. He continued to train as a physiotherapist (Kings College London), and has a further degree in Sport Rehabilitation (University of Surrey) and a Masters Degree in Pain Science (Kings College London).

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Optometry and eye care
Regions Covered
North West
Address
Holmfirth / Huddersfield / Greater Manchester/ Yorkshire / Cheshire / Derbyshire / Lancashire
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
BSc McOptom
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS status unconfirmed - we advise you to check these details with this practitioner
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Optical care for performers. Understands performers' complex eyesight needs including visual fields and working distances, and reading notation while also focusing on the working environment and fellow performers. Based at Allegro Optical in Meltham and Holmfirth.

Broad Category
Profession
Services, therapies, and modalities
Music / arts / performance health, Optometry and eye care
Regions Covered
North West, Yorkshire and Humberside, Online/Telephone/Remote
Address
Meltham / Kirklees / Yorkshire
Practitioner Name
Qualifications/registration
FBDO
Registration, insurance and DBS checks
Current professional registration, insurance and DBS confirmed
Information (Note: telephone numbers are available via BAPAM helpline)

Sheryl Doe is a dispensing optician with over 16 years' experience in the optical profession and has experience in many different optical disciplines. A keen musician with a lifelong love of music, Sheryl has developed a unique understanding of the challenges that some musicians face with deteriorating eyesight. With a keen interest in Ophthalmic lens design Sheryl has developed a unique algorithm to help in this area and is seen as an industry leader in her specialist field. She has also found that her unique approach to vision correction works well for teachers, lecturers and those that present regularly. Allegro Optical, Meltham, Holmfirth / Saddleworth.