Ruth Lovegrove Jones

Dr. Ruth Lovegrove Jones is a physiotherapist currently residing in the UK. She has worked in private practice for the last 20 years and is an expert in the fields of pain management, sports medicine and pelvic floor rehabilitation - working with elite athletes as well as non-active patients. She has a particular interest in chronic pain & the management of complicated pain patients who've tried multiple other forms of pain management therapy.

She was awarded a PhD^[1] from the University of Southampton with Professor Maria Stokes and Professor Victor Humphries, working collaboratively with Professor Christos Constantinou and Dr Qiyu Peng at Stanford University in California. This team of physiotherapists, physicists and engineers evaluated the dynamic function of the Pelvic Floor Muscles in women using 2D ultrasound and novel image processing methods. In collaboration with Leon Chaitow, she has co-edited the book, Chronic Pelvic Pain and Dysfunction: Practical Physical Medicine.^[2]

References

1. Lovegrove-Jones, R (2010) “Dynamic Evaluation of Female Pelvic Floor Muscle Function Using 2D Ultrasound and Image Processing Methods” , University of Southampton, School of Health Sciences, PhD Thesis, http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/157609/1.hasCoversheetVersion/Ruth_Lovegrove_Jones_PhD_Thesis_April_2010.pdf
2. Chaitow,Leon, Lovegrove Jones, Ruth, (2011). Chronic Pelvic Pain and Dysfunction: Practical Physical Medicine. Churchill Livingstone, London. ISBN 0702035327.