Carleen Lindsey, Physical Therapist

About Carleen Lindsey, PT, MScAH, GCS, CEEAA Carleen Lindsey

Carleen Lindsey has degrees in Physical Education and Physical Therapy from the University of California, and an advanced musculoskeletal Master’s in Allied Health from the University of Connecticut. She currently works in private practice at Bristol Physical Therapy, LLC at 400 Middle St in Bristol, CT (inside Gold’s Gym) where she treats an outpatient caseload composed of osteoporosis, balance, and a large number of musculoskeletal patients of all types. She also teaches continuing education courses for rehabilitation professionals on a wide variety of topics including: Geriatric Exercise, Osteoporosis, Geriatric Manual Therapy, Osteopathic Muscle Energy, and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation.

Carleen has been an adjunct instructor for the University of Connecticut School of Allied Health for many years, and a consultant at the Nayden Rehabilitation Clinic at the University of Connecticut. Carleen also worked for several years as senior physical therapist at Rifkin Physical Therapy in Prospect, CT. She was the Rehab Services Osteoporosis Team Leader at the University of Connecticut Health Center for 26 years, and was the primary developer of the UCHC Rehab Services Osteoporosis Prevention Program.

Carleen's continuing education is extensive in exercise science, manual therapy, geriatrics and PNF. She has participated in research and publications on osteoporosis and balance, produced a professional flexicurve CD, three patient home exercise videos, and presented numerous lectures and courses to professional and lay audiences locally and nationally. She has also written chapters for two major Geriatric Rehabilitation text books, and co-authored an osteoporosis home study module for the APTA Section on Women's Health.

In addition to her clinical work, Carleen has been co-chair for the National Osteoporosis Foundation's http://www.NOF.org/ Committee on Continuing Education for Physical Therapists, and for the APTA Geriatrics Section Balance and Falls Special Interest Group. She is a member of the APTA http://www.apta.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home Connecticut chapter, Women's Health, Geriatric, Orthopaedic, and Private Practice sections as well as the Balance and Falls and Osteoporosis Special Interest Groups. She was the 1999 winner of the APTA Section on Geriatrics Lynn Phillippi Advocacy for Older Adults Award, received the U Conn Allied Health Research Award for Excellence in 2001, and the 2008 APTA Section on Geriatrics Presidents Award for Outstanding Service.


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Carleen teaches postgraduate continuing education courses to rehabilitation therapists. For workshop or seminar bookings CLICK HERE.

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