Elaine Owen MBE, MSc, SRP, MCSP

Elaine Owen is a pediatric physical therapist at Texas Children's Hospital where she treats patients from birth to 21 years of age in the outpatient setting. Prior to joining the neurodevelopmental team at TCH, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Clinical Health Studies with a minor in Business Administration at Ithaca College and continued her post-graduate education at Ithaca College to earn her Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2018. Elaine has an interest in treating neurologic, developmental, and orthopedic diagnoses, and a passion for incorporating patient-centered care and family education into every treatment to promote patient independence and gross motor development.

Elaine Owen has been practicing as a physical therapist since the 1970s and specializes in pediatrics and adult neurology. She has postgraduate qualifications in Lower Limb Orthotic Biomechanics (University of Strathclyde) and Clinical Gait Analysis (University of Strathclyde). She has an MSc in Rehabilitation Studies, which included a thesis about orthotic management of neurological conditions, normal standing, and gait. She is ESMAC trained in Clinical Gait Analysis. For 25 years she has used a video vector gait laboratory for gait analysis, and orthotic and physical therapy management of children and adults, at Bangor Child Development Centre, UK, and other locations.

She has regularly been invited to teach her course and lecture internationally. As well as through her own courses these principles have been presented at the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) Triennial World Congress, American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM), American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (AAOP) and the European Society of Movement Analysis of Adults and Children (ESMAC). She has received a UK national award (MBE) for services to children with disability and in 201 9 AAOP awarded her the Clinical Creativity Award.