06/01/2024
We welcome a new member to our team of Physitherapist
Tasha Ainsworth is a dedicated and performance-driven physiotherapist, who completed her Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy (Hons) at Stellenbosch University (2022) as the top achiever of her class in all four years of study. Thereaer, she completed her community service in the rural Eastern Cape, where she treated a variety of in- and out-paents with neurological, cardiopulmonary, and musculoskeletal condions. She is currently studying a Masters in Physiotherapy at Stellenbosch University in 2024/2025.
She has a passion for connued educaon and the implementaon of evidence-based pracce to ensure opmal outcomes for her paents. To do this, she has further equipped herself by compleng her Basic Wheelchair Seang course, Dry Needling Level 1 and 2 courses and aended mulple webinars on neurological and musculoskeletal condions.She also has a keen interest in the rehabilitaon of paents with neurological condions including strokes, traumac brain injuries and spinal cord injuries.
As a dedicated modern and ballet dancer, she graduated with disncon from the disnguished Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York and hence, knows the mulfactorial demands it takes to be an athlete. She hopes that this, coupled with her interest in injury prevenon strategies and condioning, will aid her in rehabilitang paents back to their opmal state of performance.
Tasha strives to implement person-centred care of the highest standard with the goal of reintegraon, whether that be back on the stage, the sports field, or the workplace. She believes that a holisc, biopsychosocial approach to management of pain and subopmal funconing is key to regaining her paents’ quality of life.
