Lesley Crozier ( MCSP, SRP, DipTP)

Current Employment

Director in Movement Education Services (MovES) offering courses in the Neuromuscular Approach to Human Movement including Efficient Handling and Moving, Re-educative Neuromuscular Strappings techniques and Conditioning Movements; Kinesiology in Health Care; Tai Ch'i and Qigong in Self Care and Therapy; and Acupressure.

Freelance movement consultant.

Part-time healthcare practitioner.

Relevant experience

Physiotherapist in NHS from 1959-1965 (all rotations). In private practice from 1966-75 specialising in preventive therapy and movement re-education.

Teaching experience for 30 years at diploma and undergraduate level at Glasgow Royal Infirmary School of Physiotherapy (1965-78) and the Queen`s College Glasgow (1978-91).

From 1982-1991 released for 1 term per session to teach post-registration and post-graduate courses in handling and moving to physiotherapists and other health care personnel and strappings techniques to physiotherapists.

Relevant CPD & research

Continues to keep professional knowledge update via CPD activities generally including journal reading and review, course attendance etc.

Currently researching manual handling techniques. Currently working on a text book on the NMAHM ®

Publications

Basic Movement Patterns and their relationship to occupational physical problems (with John R. Vasey); Journal of Human Movement Studies; 1975, 1, 104-110 (also reprinted in Physiotherapy; April 1977,vol 63, no 4.

A Neuromuscular Approach to knee joint problems (with John R. Vasey); Physiotherapy; June 1980,vol 66 no 6.

A Move in the Right Direction ; Get into Condition; At Ease ; Handle with Care; Easy on the Base; Safety First; (with John R. Vasey); Nursing Mirror April 28-June 2 1982

Educate in new movement patterns ; General Practitioner, January 71983

Handling moving and lifting without strain; Disability Now, October 1985

Moving Target; Therapy Weekly, November 12, vol 19, no 19.

A Neuromuscular Approach to Handling and Moving (with Sheila Cozens); Back Exchange Newsletter, Issue 6.2,1994

The Neuromuscular Approach (with Sheila Cozens ) in RCN/ BPA Guide to the Handling of Patients, 4th Ed, 1997