About Carleen Lindsey, PT, MScAH, GCS 
Carleen Lindsey, PT, MScAH GCS 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 Physical Therapy and Massage of Connecticut in Bristol, CT 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 manual therapy, PNF, and geriatrics. She has participated in research and publications on osteoporosis and balance issues in the elderly, produced three patient home exercise videos, and presented numerous lectures and courses to professional and lay audiences locally and nationally.
In addition to her clinical work, Carleen has been co-chair for the National Osteoporosis Foundation's 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 Connecticut chapter, Women's Health, Geriatric, Orthopaedic, and Research sections as well as the Balance and Falls and Osteoporosis Special Interest Groups for which she is currently secretary. She was the 1999 winner of the APTA Section on Geriatrics Lynn Phillippi Advocacy for Older Adults Award, and received the U Conn Allied Health Research Award for Excellence in 2001.
An appointment with Carleen can be scheduled at either her Bristol, CT or her New Hartford, CT office by calling 860.582.8024
