Davina Bavaresco has 25 years experience as a professional personal remedial fitness trainer. Her training and experience encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including Movement and Dance, Massage, Laban & Alexander technique, Aerobics and most sports. She is a registered member of the 'Fitness Professionals UK' governing body, and the 'International Institute of Health & Holistic Therapies'. In addition, she holds the 'Royal Society of Arts' Certificate in Movement, and holds the Advanced Certificate of Fitness. Davina takes continued professional development very seriously.

Davina's current client list includes babies with Cerebral Palsey, children with learning difficulties, adults with organophosphate poisoning, osteoporosis and motorneuron disease and sports enthusiasts with knee and ankle injuries. In addition, spinal, cardiac and respiratory care clients are numerous.

Davina firmly believes that, with the proper care and advice, most of the effects of the above injuries and diseases can be greatly mitigated. Most muscular-skeletal injuries should become pain free, if not corrected altogether, by proper care.

Davina was the first fitness professional to recognise and react to the challenge of tree climber and chainsaw operator fatigue, at the inception of Paolo Bavaresco's rehabilitation programme in 2002. Since then, other professional tree workers have benefited from Davina's expertise; everyone's body is different, and requires individual care by the integration of personalised rehabilitation/training programmes. Some arborists, who had spent thousands of pounds in perpetual physiotherapy, are now able to remain pain free and productive after only a few sessions, because they have been educated on how their bodies work, and what they must do to avoid pain and further injury. These injuries are not always painful or obvious to the untrained eye - but if they are ignored for too long, they may reach a stage of degeneration and disability beyond repair. Prevention is better than cure.

The message is clear; Davina states:

"To avoid muscular-skeletal injuries from tree work, proper equipment, techniques and exercise must be adopted. It is critical that the body is supported and worked in a bio-mechanically sound way. Certain techniques typical to tree work should be avoided on a repetitive scale, and properly compensated for with pre and post work exercises. A programme of cardio-vascular fitness, balanced with all round flexibility and strength needs to be taken seriously by employers and employees alike. One year of intensive tree work, particularly for men under the age of 22, is sufficient to cause (a not so obvious) injury. If this is not corrected and compounded with many years of the same poor technique and equipment, it will probably lead to major surgery/disability in later life".