Matthew Newton

Matthew qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist from Sheffield in 1988. Since then he has gained experience in various places around the UK and in North America. For 18 years he also worked in an Extended Scope role of Physiotherapy as an Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Practitioner. In this role he worked as a first contact practitioner and gained experience in requesting medical investigations. He is also qualified in the administration of steroid injections. This role demanded an efficient and effective approach to differentiating sinister problems from joint, muscle and nerve pain that responds well to physiotherapy. He has presented some aspects of his work at various conferences around the world.

He gained a post graduate certificate in manual therapy from Sheffield Hallam University in 1996 and then went onto the International Maitland Teachers’ Association (www.imta.ch) course programme which he completed in 2001. He gained his Orthopaedic Manual Therapy qualification in 2005 and became a member of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP). Matthew is currently the only UK qualified teacher of the Maitland Concept, which teaches a programme ofcourses in clinical reasoning and manual therapy. As a result, he is intermittently away from the clinic teaching post graduate Physiotherapists in various countries around the world.

He is also the consultant editor and a contributing author to the latest editions of Maitland’s Peripheral and Vertebral Manipulation textbooks, key texts for Physiotherapists and other manual therapy professions.

Matthew remains a clinician and has worked in the private sector since 1999. He is an advocate of manual therapy applied appropriately on the basis of sound clinical reasoning and individual patient need and is committed to promoting evidence based, quality care for all patients. Whether your problem is a headache or a painful big toe Matthew is determined to examine you thoroughly and work with you to gain the best possible outcome.

Something you may not know about Matthew….. he is pictured on the front of one of Sir Bill Beaumont’s books (for the younger readers he was a captain of the England and British Lions rugby union teams several years ago!).