Rachael is an experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapist from the UK. She has worked in the UK and Australia in a variety of different clinical environments and with a variety of clients and clinicians.

Having set up and developed her own private physiotherapy practice into a three busy clinics with a small team of physotherapists she moved into the area of educating physiotherapists. Working with Tony at Webducate Rachael developed an interest in producing e-learning materials for the education. She continues to work in this area and has a special interest in producing individualised, innovative, interactive and evidenced based materials that promote distance learning via the internet for health care courses in higher education and for professional bodies in specific clinical areas.

Rachael has maintained a professional development portfolio since she graduated. Her familiarity with the concept of continuing professional development led to the foundation of CPDspot. The idea is to provide a assistance to health professionals with their continuing professional development and evidence based practice. This has been developed to offer a free online portfolio and is now focusing on the development of online courses for physiotherapists. These materials will continue to evolve and ultimately the aim is to provide a collection of online resources for physiotherapists.

Rachael is also the founder and director of Physiospot. This is a series of research article blogs that aims to highlight clinically relevant research evidence as it is published. Rachael is always keen to keep her practice up to date and evidenced based but as a busy clinician found it difficult to make the time to trawl through journals looking for applicable articles. The task of collating these articles into one place is a resource that she would have liked to be available to her at the time, as it wasn't she went about setting up this service herself. The aim is to develop Physiospot to involve readers in the critical appraisal of articles and interpretation of their contribution to evidence based practice.