OUR EXPERTISE
JOANNA LANDRETH-SMITH leads our team with 40 years experience in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy. She has worked for more than 14 years in Toronto, Canada and New Jersey, U.S.A. before returning to Trinidad in 1996 to establish Spine & Sports Care Centre. A graduate of the Nottingham School of Physiotherapy, UK, a member of the Physiotherapy Association of Trinidad and Tobago she is currently is the Director of the Spine & Sports Care Centre and Aurora Centre, which she subsequently opened in 2005.
Her specialties include evaluation and treatment of patients with orthopaedic, sports and work-related injuries. In addition, Joanna is highly trained in evaluating foot biomechanical problems and fabricating foot orthotics. Her proficiencies include office ergonomic evaluations that analyze risk factors in order to reduce the incidence of work-related injuries. As well, her areas of expertise include back and neck pain, TMJ dysfunction and headache treatment. In this regard, she utilizes manual therapy skills, biofeedback and Trigger Point Dry Needling.
Concerned with the increasing incidence of incontinence and pain associated with the pelvic floor dysfunction in women, in 2005, after receiving training in the field of pelvic floor dysfunction at the Herman Wallace Rehabilitation Institute in Miami and New York, Joanna started the treatment of women. Faced with numerous requests to treat children for similar dysfunction in 2006, with Dawn Sandalcidi, at the internationally recognized Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, she trained in paediatric pelvic floor dysfunctions and incontinence. In 2007 she received further training in colorectal conditions and male pelvic floor dysfunction at the Herman Wallace Rehabilitation Institute in Philadelphia and expanded her horizons to include the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction in men.
In July 2020 she developed a Pre Natal Post Natal program to prepare mothers for an optimal delivery and recovery from the birth process..
Using the state of the art biofeedback and pelvic floor electrical stimulation machines, at Aurora Centre, Joanna provides treatment to:
Joanna is one of two Physical Therapist in Trinidad qualified to perform:
Her specialties include evaluation and treatment of patients with orthopaedic, sports and work-related injuries. In addition, Joanna is highly trained in evaluating foot biomechanical problems and fabricating foot orthotics. Her proficiencies include office ergonomic evaluations that analyze risk factors in order to reduce the incidence of work-related injuries. As well, her areas of expertise include back and neck pain, TMJ dysfunction and headache treatment. In this regard, she utilizes manual therapy skills, biofeedback and Trigger Point Dry Needling.
Concerned with the increasing incidence of incontinence and pain associated with the pelvic floor dysfunction in women, in 2005, after receiving training in the field of pelvic floor dysfunction at the Herman Wallace Rehabilitation Institute in Miami and New York, Joanna started the treatment of women. Faced with numerous requests to treat children for similar dysfunction in 2006, with Dawn Sandalcidi, at the internationally recognized Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, she trained in paediatric pelvic floor dysfunctions and incontinence. In 2007 she received further training in colorectal conditions and male pelvic floor dysfunction at the Herman Wallace Rehabilitation Institute in Philadelphia and expanded her horizons to include the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction in men.
In July 2020 she developed a Pre Natal Post Natal program to prepare mothers for an optimal delivery and recovery from the birth process..
Using the state of the art biofeedback and pelvic floor electrical stimulation machines, at Aurora Centre, Joanna provides treatment to:
- Women and men with pelvic pain, incontinence, chronic constipation and prolapse
- Children with diurnal and nocturnal enuresis (wetting), constipation and vesicoureteric reflux
Joanna is one of two Physical Therapist in Trinidad qualified to perform:
- Internal pelvic floor dysfunction evaluations and treatment
- Intramuscular manual therapy known as Trigger Point Dry Needling, having trained in this treatment technique with the Kinectacore Physical Therapy Education Group from Colorado, USA in 2011 and 2012
