Bringing 10 years Physiotherapy experience to your own home

Covering Cambridgeshire, North-West Essex, West Suffolk, North-East Hertfordshire and East Bedfordshire.

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My name is Luc Jenkinson-Dix and I am the owner of LJD Physiotherapy. Thank-you for visiting my website and wanting to know more about me.

I studied BSc Physiotherapy in Brunel University from 2010-2013 achieving an Upper Second-Class Honours. Following my studies, I was asked to return to work where I had completed my final clinical placement at The Royal Brompton Hospital, a specialist hospital in Cardio-thoracic medicine (similar to The Royal Papworth) in the acute cardio-thoracic team. Here I gained experience of working with people following complex heart and lung surgeries as well as working on the private patients’ ward.

After a few months, in an effort to move closer to home (Cambridgeshire), I began working at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn within their inpatient and community stroke rehabilitation teams. Here I consolidated my student experience of treating people in their own homes alongside developing the creativity required to make treatments novel and interesting for people recovering from a stroke. This was something I found incredibly rewarding.

On 7th July 2014 (the day the Tour de France came to Cambridge) I started work at Addenbrookes Hospital as a Junior Rotational Physiotherapist. I continued to work at Addenbrookes Hospital until June 2022. During this time I had: been promoted to a Senior Rotational Physiotherapist, completed a maternity leave cover role as a Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapist (static), completed 4 months “stepping up” into the role of Team Leader of the Elderly Medicine team (static) and worked 2 years as a Senior Physiotherapist on the Stroke Rehabilitation team (static) with a 4 month interruption to this to work on the Adult Intensive Care unit as a Physiotherapist and an “Auxillary Nurse” during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to the experience gained in each of my static roles within my “rotational” positions I also gained experience working in:

• The adult, neurological and paediatric intensive care units providing respiratory and rehabilitative treatments to critical ill patients with both acute and chronic respiratory conditions and was part of the over-night on-call respiratory Physiotherapy service provided at Addenbrookes.
• The post-surgical theatre recovery unit and surgical wards treating patients following bowel, bladder, liver, kidney, gastro-intestinal and transplant surgery.
• The adult neurology wards where I treated a mixture of patients with; acute neurological insults (such as new spinal-cord injuries, head injuries, sub-arachnoid haemorrhages), chronic neurological conditions (Multiple sclerosis, Motor-neurones disease), and neuro-surgical (vestibular schwannoma excision, ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion, intra-cranial aneurysm clipping, lumbar and cervical laminectomy).
• The Medicine for the Elderly wards with patients who had; multiple complex health problems, falls prevention, Parkinson’s Disease, Osteoarthritis, impairments of gait and balance, and those recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 virus.
• The adult Orthopaedic wards with patients who had had elective joint replacements (Total Hip/Knee/Shoulder replacements, Partial Hip/Knee/Shoulder replacements, spinal surgery), surgery following trauma (dynamic hip screw, intra-medullary nail, external fixation frames), and soft tissue surgical procedures (ACL reconstruction, rotator cuff tendon repair, Achilles Tendon lengthening).

I decided to leave Addenbrookes hospital to gain further experience working within community roles and for a break the pressures of an acute hospital environment. From July 2022 until the end of January 2023 I worked as a locum Physiotherapist within the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Intermediate Care Team. In this position I was able to support people to progress in their home environments often following hospital stays. My role included assessing people performing their daily functional activities, helping them to identify the aims for their Physiotherapy treatments, providing treatments and home exercise programmes to help them progress, identifying and providing appropriate equipment to enable patient independence and working alongside Care services to give advice and recommendations about a patients care needs.

All of the experience I have gained in the NHS, both clinically and managerially, have given me the skills and knowledge needed to provide you with a high standard of physiotherapy care to help you reach your goals. That is why I believe LJD Physiotherapy can help you- please enquire today.

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