Covid 19

Covid-19 update December 2022

We only accept patients with a pre-booked appointment. Please call or email the practice to speak to a member of the team.

All patients will be asked to give their consent to treatment prior to attending.

Patients are asked to wait in their vehicle in the car park outside the clinic until their appointment time when you may come in to the reception area. The toilet facilities are open.

If you are unwell or have been in contact with anyone with confirmed Covid-19 in the previous 7 days. please let us know and do not attend for your appointment.

Wearing a mask in the clinic is now optional for you. Your Physiotherapist may wear a mask during treatment, especially if close contact is needed. If you prefer your Physiotherapist to wear a mask throughout the treatment please let us know.

Hand sanitisers and hand washing facilities will be available for patients to use on entry and leaving the premises, if you wish.

We request that only one person attends for an appointment. Please let us know if you need to be accompanied for treatment e.g. due to mobility problems. All children under 16 must have a parent or suitable adult with them for treatment

If you have any concerns, please speak to a member of our clinic team before making your appointment.

Nicola Vineyard qualified at Pinderfields College, Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1985. After working in Mundesley Rehabilitation Hospital in Norfolk for a time, she moved back to her home in Essex.
She then started work in the East London area working for the NHS at Newham General Hospital and Barking Hospital. Here she gained a sound knowledge of all aspects of physiotherapy both inpatient and outpatients She also worked in the London Chest Hospital for a short period of time being involved with all respiratory treatments including post cardio- thoracic surgery rehab.

Nicola realised quite quickly in her career that she had a love of outpatient treatments as this enabled her to work closely with patients providing effective treatments and rehabilitation programmes. Due to her love of sports injuries she became involved with the Metropolitan Police sports Club in Essex treating the rugby and football teams. For several years she was involved with the London Youth Games, treating injuries sustained in the varied sports by the young athletes.

After working in a private hospital in London for several years she opened up her own practice in Essex in 1991 specialising in musculo-skeletal Physiotherapy and Acupuncture. The workload was varied; from sports injuries, biomechanical, muscle, joint, ligament and tendon problems to post-surgical orthopaedic treatments, treating both young and old.

She built up a close relationship with London Consultants in all orthopaedic specialisations sitting in on their clinics and attending surgery to observe operations at first hand. This enabled her to have a clearer understanding of the patients’ needs and therefore providing a more efficient and effective treatment programme.

Nicola feels a physiotherapist is like a detective. The body is wonderful, complicated and finely tuned. A physiotherapist must take a holistic approach to each individual. They must question and examine the patient thoroughly and then having all the clues in place come to a conclusion resulting in the best possible plan of treatment.
Nicola enjoys all aspect of physiotherapy but has a keen interest in acute sports injuries especially foot and knee injuries. She encourages her patients to use video imagery in clinic to help them understand good and bad postural habits and to have a record and clearer understanding of the exercises taught. She also uses taping techniques to offload injured areas as well using it to help reinforce correct postural positioning of the body both during activity or at rest.

Nicola moved to Norfolk and joined the Park Physiotherapy team in September 2016. As a member of Physio First, Nicola achieved Quality Assured Practitioner status in 2018 and continues to maintain this.