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Oaklands Physiotherapy human musculoskeletal & sports physiotherapy, lymphatic drainage, Reiki, Bowen therapy, horse/rider assessments and treatments, My name is Freddy von Rabenau.

I qualified in Germany as a human physiotherapist in 1986 and followed this up with a qualification as a lymph therapist in 1988. Always committed to continuous personal development I obtained my BSc in Physiotherapy with the University of Portsmouth in 1993 and my MSc in Sports Physiotherapy with the University of Queensland in Brisbane in 1998 and got a qualification in the Bowen Therapy in 2005. Living and working abroad for many years my work was exclusively with humans but following my return to the UK in 2008 I branched out into the world of veterinary treatments when I studied Equine Bowen Therapy with Beth Darrall in Gloucestershire. I found this form of treatment highly effective and the course coincided with my decision to take my TB mare off her shoes. As my farrier was concerned that the horse would go lame and refused to take the step I was referred to Trevor Jones, an equine podiatrist, who took her shoes off in November 2008. Interestingly my mare's main problems were tightness in her lumbar- and hamstring musculature but with her being my first Bowen case study she got over her problems much quicker than anyone had anticipated and we never looked back. I subsequently also took my show pony, who had muscular back problems that I was unable to clear, off his shoes and he immediately got better. His lumbar tension cleared with minimal help within a short period of time after the shoes were removed. As Equine Bowen Therapy was not widely known and accepted I felt at a disadvantage compared to other practitioners such as veterinary physiotherapists, which made me decide to study veterinary physiotherapy as well. I completed my post graduate diploma in veterinary physiotherapy and became ACPAT CAT A registered in 2013 and used to integrate the Bowen Therapy into my veterinary physiotherapy practice as I have been doing with my human treatments since 2005. As the Bowen Therapy is a holistic and gentle treatment even animals with strong pain responses and fear of pain are able to tolerate the treatment or part thereof as a frontline approach. Due to work political rasons around veterinary consent and pet insurance issues (coupled with increasing numbers of therapists with inferior training [such as from the school of 'all you need to know about physiotherapy in 50 hours'] flooding the market) I have given up treating animals except my own and have reverted back to just treating human patients from my clinic in Selesy. A special interest of mine were rider biomechanics according to the 'Ride With Your Mind' concept developed by Mary Wanless, which I used for evaluation during ridden assessments as I felt that rider posture and errors can contribute to health and performance problems in horses to an equal degree as physical problems of riders. The treatment of the horse rider team was another special interest of mine as problems can be transferred from rider to horse and vice versa. In addition to ACPAT I used to be a member of RAMP, the register of animal musculoskeletal practitioners, which became active in late 2016/early 2017 and serves the purpose to regulate animal practitioners in order to make the expected quality of care more transparent to vets and animal owners. I have recently located to Mid Devon and hope that I will be able to help the residents in my new area as I did the ones in West Sussex.

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Freddy’s Story

My name is Freddy von Rabenau. I qualified in Germany as a human physiotherapist in 1986 and followed this up with a qualification as a lymph therapist in 1988. Always committed to continuous personal development I obtained my BSc in Physiotherapy with the University of Portsmouth in 1993 and my MSc in Sports Physiotherapy with the University of Queensland in Brisbane in 1998 and got a qualification in the Bowen Therapy in 2005. Living and working abroad for many years my work was exclusively with humans but following my return to the UK in 2008 I branched out into the world of veterinary treatments when I studied Equine Bowen Therapy with Beth Darrall in Gloucestershire. I found this form of treatment highly effective and the course coincided with my decision to take my TB mare off her shoes. As my farrier was concerned that the horse would go lame and refused to take the step I was referred to Trevor Jones, an equine podiatrist, who took her shoes off in November 2008. Interestingly my mare's main problems were tightness in her lumbar- and hamstring musculature but with her being my first Bowen case study she got over her problems much quicker than anyone had anticipated and we never looked back. I subsequently also took my show pony, who had muscular back problems that I was unable to clear, off his shoes and he immediately got better. His lumbar tension cleared with minimal help within a short period of time after the shoes were removed. As Equine Bowen Therapy was not widely known and accepted I felt at a disadvantage compared to other practitioners such as veterinary physiotherapists, which made me decide to study veterinary physiotherapy as well. I completed my post graduate diploma in veterinary physiotherapy and became ACPAT CAT A registered in 2013 and used to integrate the Bowen Therapy into my veterinary physiotherapy practice as I have been doing with my human treatments since 2005. As the Bowen Therapy is a holistic and gentle treatment even animals with strong pain responses and fear of pain are able to tolerate the treatment or part thereof as a frontline approach. In addition to animals I continued to treat human patients from my clinic in Selesy. A special interest of mine were rider biomechanics according to the 'Ride With Your Mind' concept developed by Mary Wanless, which I used to evaluate during ridden assessments as I felt that rider posture and errors can contribute to health and performance problems in horses to as great a degree as physical problems of riders. The treatment of the horse rider team used to be another special interest of mine as problems can be transferred from rider to horse and vice versa. In addition to ACPAT I was also a registrant of RAMP, the voluntary register of animal musculoskeletal practitioners.

Due to numerous misgivings that I have outlined in detail in a post on this page dated 10.11.18 I decided not to renew my RAMP registration and became a non-practising ACPAT member in November 2018. I am currently practising human physiotherapy from my clinic in Selsey and also do home visits to clients who are unable to leave their homes easily.