Vicky Goodwin

Description

Dr Vicki Goodwin is a Research Fellow at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter and a Physiotherapist in the Torbay Care Trust. For her PhD, Vicky has been researching Parkinson's Disease, Exercise and falls. Vicky got her PSI in 2001 and has been tutoring PSI for LLT since 2003. She has her A1 Assessor Qualification and also assesses PSI.  Vicky was the Chair of AGILE 2006-2008, is a Committee member Falls and Bone Health Section of BGS (2005 –present) and the BGS Clinical practice and Effectiveness Committee (2009 –present). She is married to Ian and enjoys walking her dog, travelling and shoe-shopping!.

She has publications in the area, including:
- Goodwin VA, Martin FC, Husk J, Lowe D, Grant R, Potter J (2010) ’The National Clinical Audit of Falls and Bone Health - Secondary prevention of falls and fractures: a physiotherapy perspective’ Physiotherapy 96, 38-43.
- Ramaswamy B and Goodwin V ‘Physiotherapy and Parkinson’s disease’ In Touch (Journal for Physiotherapists working in Private Practice). Winter 2009, 2-8.
- Goodwin VA, Richards SH, Taylor RS, Taylor AH, Campbell JL (2008) ‘Parkinsons’s disease and exercise: a systematic review and meta-analysis’ Movement Disorders, 23 (5) 631-640.
- Goodwin VA,  Richards SH, Campbell JL (2007) ‘Exploring an exercise intervention to reduce falls in people with Parkinson’s disease’ AGILITY. Issue 2, 4-7.
- Goodwin V (2004) 'A study establishing compliance of older people with a history of falling with wearing hip protectors'. AGILITY. Issue 1. 4-6.