Interests – Tania Mayne

Concussion and Vestibular Rehabilitation

Sep 11, 2020/in Interests/by Tania Mayne

I have been working in Concussion management for 3 years – managing the Concussion Service in private practice and treating clients. I see a variety of cases, predominantly concussions in contact sport in the adolescent population, but also concussion in non-contact sports and every-day individuals. Each come with an individual presentation and set of symptoms with their specific rehabilitation goals. The mTBI is a fascinating merger of neurological injury and the highly functional individual. A challenge in considering all aspects of brain injury and musculo-skeletal injury and weighting their importance in the presentation and subsequent rehabilitation – cervicogenic, vestibular, ocular, cognitive, psychological, functional and autonomic. Rehabilitation involves an inter-disciplinary team to help understand and manage these components. I could not practice in this field without understanding the individual components of the injury and have developed further interests in vestibular rehabilitation and cervico-genic headaches.

Neurological Rehabilitation and Robotics

Sep 10, 2020/in Interests/by Tania Mayne

This field is most certainly my first love and drives my practice. I work with a multitude of diagnoses and always within a team environment – Spinal cord injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Traumatic Brain Injury, Polyneuropathies, Stroke to name a few…..I strive to assimilate the traditional Bobath theories of neuro-rehabilitation, the various motor control theories and the functional rehabilitation theories into practice. Crossing between neurological rehabilitation and sports rehabilitation has given me great insight into the similarities in the rehabilitation – understanding the brain-body connection is paramount in how I deliver rehabilitation, what I say, how the movement is practiced or felt, the amount of repetition and functional load, the education and the role of robotics to aid this is truly fascinating.

Functional Rehabilitation and Musculo-skeletal Injury

Sep 9, 2020/in Interests/by Tania Mayne

I started out in this field years ago but was always more interested in movement patterns of the whole person vs specific injury management – hence my specialty in neurological rehabilitation. BUT, over the last 10 years, the gulf between pure neurological physiotherapy and musculo-skeletal physiotherapy has narrowed significantly and principles have become shared – this is fascinating. Working in a sports injury clinic has allowed me to re-develop my specificity in injury management within the context of the whole; taking the individual from injury to functional outcome with guided functional rehabilitation principles. I enjoy tackling complex cases such as multi-trauma, amputees, scoliosis and overuse injuries.