Kate Bryce

Kate is a private Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist who divides her practice between specialist vestibular assessment and treatment, and comprehensive falls and balance assessment and management within clients’ homes. She provides expert clinical assessment, evidence-based treatment planning, collaborative goal setting, and detailed professional reports for both general practitioners and case managers. Her practice includes the delivery of both short-term interventions and longer-term care plans, tailored to meet individual client needs.  She has excellent interpersonal skills and enjoys developing collaborative rehabilitation journeys with her clients; what she feels stands her apart is what one client feedback: her courage to push past protective barriers, not recklessly, but thoughtfully helping recovery from dizziness not just survival in it.

Kate qualified from the University of Nottingham in 1999. Following completion of her junior rotations in the North East, she moved to London in 2001, where she progressed to become Lead Therapist for an innovative multidisciplinary team specialising in admission prevention at University College London Hospitals (UCLH). This role required a broad range of advanced assessment skills, alongside team leadership and complex problem-solving abilities.  On returning to the North East, she further developed her specialist expertise in balance and dizziness by joining the Falls and Syncope Service at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in 2017. She played a leading role in the development of services for the assessment and treatment of dizziness and is recognised for her specialist expertise in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).

Since leaving the NHS in 2021, Kate has continued to develop her specialist practice, providing comprehensive assessment and evidence-based treatment of dizziness and balance disorders in both clinic and home-based settings. Her clinical interests include the assessment and management of peripheral vestibular conditions such as vestibular hypofunction and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), as well as central causes of dizziness including concussion, vestibular migraine, acute brain injury.  Kate spent several years on the national committee for physiotherapists specialising in vestibular rehabilitation and is a co-author of two publications: one a nationally available framework for developing skills in vestibular and balance healthcare and a second strengthening the evidence base for BPPV assessment within falls clinics.  Kate is passionate about providing clear, accessible education on dizziness and balance conditions for both clients and their families. She is dedicated to ensuring clients feel understood and leave each appointment informed and confident in their care.