Exercise Medicine UK
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All about
Exercise Medicine
Exercise: sport, physical activity and all active movement in our everyday life helps us to maintain and improve our health and well-being. Exercise can help us remain strong for life: from our muscles and bones to our mental health, through all life stages.
The evidence for exercise in helping people manage health conditions including heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer is very strong. Exercise Medicine is informed by the research in sport and exercise science and medicine to ensure that the care we offer is the best for your health and goals, and individualised to support you.
For athletes -whether you pursue sport for personal enjoyment or also have competitive goals it's vital that injury or illness don't derail your plans
Dr Rebecca Robinson
Qualifications: Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine MBBS FRCP FSEM MSc
Rebecca is a medical doctor, practicing as a consultant in Sport and Exercise medicine -a speciality dedicated to meeting the healthcare needs of the active population, from professional and amateur sportspeople, to people needing physical and medical rehabilitation through longer term illness
Rebecca offers face to face and also direct online consultations so that she can help patients access care of conditions that can be harder to reach locally -such as female athlete health, Rehabilitation after cancer and long term conditions and also the overtraining and under-recovery syndromes across a wider geography. If she is not working, you'll find her running or writing (see blog here).
for remote please contact Rebecca@managedmedical.co.uk )
Rebecca works at: Carter and George Staveley https://www.carterandgeorge.co.uk/about/
Marylebone Health Group, London https://marylebonehealthgroup.com/team-member/dr-rebecca-robinson/
The Wilmslow Hospital (enquires via april@managedmedical.co.uk)
The OrthTeam Manchester
She works with most insurance companies, with TASS and is building ways to work collaboratively with the NHS and charities
To book directly with Rebecca or enquire further, please email rebecca@managedmedical.co.uk
Sports Medicine Practice
Rebecca works with UK Sports Institute as part of the medical team supporting athletes toward the Olympic Games and with Lancashire Cricket and the Lawn Tennis Association, as well as with independent professional and amateur athletes in a range of sports.
Her work involves the assessment and management of injuries in sport, working alongside radiology, physiotherapy and orthopaedic colleagues to hep you get back better. She also helps athletes with relative injury deficiency in sport and illnesses that can interrupt training.
Rebecca has experience of the ups and downs of life in sport as an elite athlete competing for GB in marathon and mountain running since 2009.
Exercise Medicine Practice
Rebecca works to help support people's medical health during and after illness and has experience in rehabilitation for cancer, long Covid, fatigue syndromes within a wider range of medical conditions. Currently she works independently and with The Christie NHS Trust to help support people with cancer -this can be to ensure fitness for treatment and to recover from effects of cancer and its treatment.
She is a strong advocate of the work of MOVE Charity and a trustee of the CanRehab Trust
Rebecca works with the team at Project REDs to help people get the balance right with regard to energy and fuel for sport
She is part of the Women in Exercise research group POWER set up to empower all active women at all ages
In 2021, Rebecca co-led a clinical research project on rehabilitation after long-Covid with Sheffield Hallam University.
Linked Services
Recommended links that Rebecca works with for rehabilitation include practitioners within exercise physiology, physiotherapy, psychology and nutrition
If you are experiencing the relative energy deficiency in sport do visit: https://red-s.com
For help staying active with or after cancer, be in touch and also see: https://www.moveagainstcancer.org/5k-your-way/ for your nearest support group and https://www.canrehab.com
Email rebecca@managedmedical.co.uk for more information
Services
What to Expect
ExerciseMedicine offers an individualised approach. Your will have an initial online consultation with an exercise medicine consultant, or an in-person appointment when preferred.
The initial consultation will explore your needs and with the doctor you might decide on first steps to diagnosis an injury or illness (such as arranging for further tests like blood tests or imaging like MRI or ultrasound or fitness level testing). In a follow-up appointment, your individualised plan will be made.
For some people with known conditions it will be possible to support your exercise prescription from the first appointment and implement a plan that can involve rehabilitation with the option of an exercise physiologist or physiotherapist to support your needs.
Services also include health assessments, which can help assess your fitness relative to overall health and provide advice to help you to be the most well version of you!
