Mindy is a Clinical Academic and highly experienced clinician, researcher and educator.  She is Associate Professor (Research) in the School of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire and a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist practising in Twyford, Berkshire.   Mindy is passionate about her profession, helping translate evidence into practice and maximising patient outcomes and empowerment. 

Her methodological expertise is primarily quantitative methodologies; randomised clinical trials, trial interventions and evaluation, survey and questionnaire design and evaluation of current clinical practice.  She is an experienced supervisor at both PhD and MSc and has held many External Examiner roles for undergraduate and post-graduate courses and for PhD examinations.   She has served on many Trial Steering Committees (TSC) she previously chaired the ARTISAN TSC and is currently the Chair of the Oxford SORTED study. 

She is an Assistant Editor for the peer reviewed journal Physical Therapy Reviews and reviews for many journal and funding bodies.  Currently she is a member of the NIHR Doctoral Awards committee and the Versus Arthritis Living Well funding panel. 

Mindy is a Fellow of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP) and works clinically two days a week managing acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, specialising in all types of spinal pain/dysfunction, hypermobility, orthopaedic rehabilitation and healthy aging. 

She has been actively involved with The International Federation of Manual and Musculoskeletal Physical Therapists Incorporated (IFOMPT), a sub-group of World Physiotherapy over many years.  She was the UK IFOMPT representative (2012-17) and Chair of the International Scientific Committee for the IFOMPT conferences in 2016 (UK) and 2024 (Switzerland).

She has recently shared her exerptise on the Radio 4 programme What's Up Doc discussing back pain and its management

My research interests include:

• Management of musculoskeletal and orthopaedic conditions
• Spinal dysfunction and management
• Hypermobility
• Older adults and aging
• Identification of inflammatory back pain 
• Current practice and First Contact and Advance Practice

Teaching specialisms

• Musculoskeletal assessment & management
• Manual therapy techniques
• Research methods
• RCTs
• Systematic reviews

• Musculoskeletal assessment & management
• Manual therapy techniques
• Research methods
• RCTs
• Systematic reviews