TAI CHI EXERCISES

Tutor:    Ros Smith  MCSP

Since then, except for a career break to have children, Ros has worked in the NHS in a variety of posts including stroke rehabilitation, elderly care and Day hospitals before specialising in musculo-skeletal outpatients and women’s health.

In 2004 she won an NHS Innovations North Award for a self-referral system to Pelvic Floor Advice Groups for women.

Ros started learning Tai Chi in 1998 and continues to train in Yang style Tai Chi. Wanting to teach Tai Chi in health care she obtained the Tai Chi and Chi Kung Forum for health teaching certificate in 2004 and in 2009 attended the Tai Chi for Arthritis Instructor/Leaders course.

Since 2004 she has taught Tai Chi both in Adult Education and privately and runs classes in the local community for all ages and physical capabilities including a day centre class for the elderly learning disabled.

Her experience using Adapted Tai Chi Exercises with musculo-skeletal and chronic pain patients showed excellent results and she had two papers published on Adapted Tai chi exercises for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 1 (CRPS 1) in the Physiotherapy Pain Association Journal in 2008 and 2009.

Ros took early retirement from the NHS in 2009 to specialise in teaching Adapted Tai Chi Exercises courses to health professionals across the UK and running classes in the local community.

Ros was born in England and in her early teens her family emigrated to Ontario, Canada where she obtained her training as a physiotherapist, qualifying in 1977. She worked there gaining experience in inpatients, musculo-skeletal outpatients, hydrotherapy and then in the community. Ros returned to England in 1983 becoming a Chartered Physiotherapist.