Sue started out as a competitive distance runner, representing her club and Ireland internationally, as a teenager. But, by her late teens she started to get injury after injury. By 21, she had had separate knee and hip surgeries. With no end in sight to the pain and injuries, she had to reevaluate her sporting career and my fitness journey.

 

At that time, she didn't understand the source of her injury issues and she wasn't getting adequate treatment. She was always being treated for the symptoms she was exhibiting. She attended many physiotherapists and physical therapists and started to recognise the essential skills of an effective physio. She also began to understand the many benefits of strengthening her body with resistance training. Strengthening her muscles and tendons and moving her body in healthy ways decreased her pain and improved her functional movement patterns. This, in turn, had massively positive impacts on her mental health and well being and allowed her to enjoy exercise again.

 

In 2016, she qualified as a fitness instructor and a personal trainer. She coached strength and conditioning classes while she returned to college to study physical therapy and applied health science. The combination of her education and experience as a physical therapist and personal trainer over the last 8 years has taught her to look at the whole picture. Her main aim as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist is to treat the person as a whole. Traumatic injuries have a simple cause. Everything else is more complex and must be treated that way. Therefore, the underpinning ethos of Physio Strength Therapy is to create a treatment and exercise plan based on each person's unique needs.

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Sue thrives on getting to work with all different kinds of people with all different kinds of pain and injury problems. The aim is to assess how and why their body has adapted and to bring it back to its optimal function. We can only facilitate this process and Sue's goal will always be to empower her clients to do this for themselves. She educates and guides her clients to be able to use their bodies in a healthy way. Whether she has a client attending for a sprained ankle, tennis elbow, pre or post op for a joint replacement, sciatic symptoms, back pain, arthritis or any other musculoskeletal issue... Sue will be looking at their individual needs, what they need and want to be able to do moving forward, and work to restore that function.

 

Some of the simplest changes we make, can result in a massive difference in your daily life. Whether the main goal is to improve your gym lifts, move better on the golf course, run without pain, play with your grandchild, or simply drive your car without a backache, Sue is here to help you achieve it!