Jeremy Lewis

Professor Jeremy Lewis has been awarded a Bachelor in Applied Science (Physiotherapy) and Postgraduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy (Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia). He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy (Curtin University, Western Australia) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Biomechanics (Strathclyde University Glasgow, Scotland). He has an MSc in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy (Coventry University, United Kingdom). He has completed an MSc Module in Joint and Soft Tissue Injections (Keele University, UK), a PhD (UK), a postgraduate Certificate in Diagnostic Imaging (Ultrasound) [Distinction] (University of Leeds, UK), and has qualified (with distinction) as a non-medical independent pharmacology prescriber (University of Hertfordshire, UK). He was born in New Zealand and works clinically in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service as a consultant physiotherapist. He also works pro bono and has volunteered his skills around the world. He provides consultancy to pharmacology, start-up, and established companies globally. He is professor of musculoskeletal research, visiting professor, and adjunct professor in four universities in the UK and Europe. He has co-edited and authored four books and has more than 200 publications. His focus of clinical practice and research are musculoskeletal conditions involving the shoulder. He loves carpentry, playing guitar, and tai chi, but admits he isn’t very good at any of his hobbies.

He is frequently invited to present keynote and invited lectures internationally, has appeared on news programs and presented podcasts talking about shoulder problems. His research and publications have been picked up by international news organisations. His YouTube™ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bUf9VcYLmI has over 850,000 views and has been translated into 5 languages. His keynote lecture at IFOMPT is available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEy5k6GBYZ4, as well as at SportFisioSwiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVRTZm3pI3Y
 

Jeremy’s research interest are rotator cuff related shoulder pain, frozen shoulder, injection therapy, exercise therapy self-management, sustainability and also writes about “The medicalisation of normality in musculoskeletal practice” https://www.jospt.org/doi/full/10.2519/jospt.2020.0601 (open access). He has also co-authored a paper entitled: Is it time to reframe how we care for people with non-traumatic musculoskeletal pain? Since publication in 2018 it has been downloaded 136K times, and it is available open access https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/24/1543.info. He regularly posts his and other people’s research on social media.

He edited and authored The Shoulder: Theory & Practice. The first print run of 2000 books sold out internationally  in 2 weeks and 4 days, and the second run, in under 3 weeks. It was recently classified as a top 10 best-seller. It has now been published in French and Korea. In addition to his own research, he supervises PhD and MSc students, around the world.

He teaches internationally, having taught more than 500 post graduate continuing professional education courses, to more than 15,000 participants, in more than 50 countries.