Dr Nicki Phillips

Senior Physiotherapist
Chartered Physiotherapist
PhD, MSc, MCSP

Nicki Phillips is a Chartered Physiotherapist and a reader in Cardiff University, Cardiff, South Wales, UK, where she is also Vice Dean of the School of Healthcare studies and Director of Postgraduate Healthcare Studies.

Nicki's academic post is mainly centred around her role as Programme Manager of the MSc in Sports Physiotherapy. She is also contracted out of Cardiff University by the Sports Council for Wales as a physiotherapy consultant developing a physiotherapy support network for High Performance athletes in Wales.

Nicki is currently Vice-President of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine. She also chairs the Professional Development committee of the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapy and was part of an expert panel involved in compiling international competency standards in sports physiotherapy.

Nicki completed her PhD in Cardiff University on the challenges of functional coping in ACL deficiency. Her main area of experience is in the field of sports injury management, with a specific interest in sports rehabilitation of upper and lower limb.

Sports experience includes working with the Welsh and British Weightlifting teams, professional rugby union, three Olympic Games, two Team GB Olympic Holding Camps and six Commonwealth Games. She was Chief Physiotherapist for Team GB at Beijing Olympic Games and is the Head Physiotherapist for Team Wales at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Nicki works in the Vale Healthcare Physiotherapy Dept in the Bay two evenings each week bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to South Wales' leading private clinics and private hospital in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
 

Ms Donna Powell

Senior Physiotherapist, Vale Healthcare
Chartered Physiotherapist
BSc (Hons) MSCP

Donna Powell is a senior physiotherapist at Vale Healthcare. Donna qualified as a physiotherapist from Cardiff in 2005 initially gaining valuable experience at Morriston and Singleton Hospitals in Swansea, where her primary interest was in orthopaedic assessment and rehabilitation as well as within a sports setting with Swansea City’s Centre of Excellence.

Donna was recruited as a private physiotherapist at Vale Healthcare in 2010, where she focuses on a hands on approach to physiotherapy, seeking to identify problem areas and treat these directly.

She holds a post- graduate diploma in Orthopaedic Medicine and is a member of the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, qualified to provide acupuncture for pain relief.

Donna is also able to offer advice and treatment to women suffering from urinary incontinence. A large number of women have bladder problems but may be too embarrassed to talk about it. It can cause high levels of stress and have detrimental effects on quality of life. In many cases, the problem will respond to specialist physiotherapy. Donna is committed to treating such problems which can occur at any age and are often precipitated by childbirth.

Make an enquiry about Donna's private physiotherapy clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales here
 

Miss Elin Rees

Senior Physiotherapist, Vale Healthcare
Chartered Physiotherapist
BSc (Hons) MCSP

Elin Rees ia a Senior Physiotherapist at Vale Healthcare. Elin graduated with an honours degrees in Physiotherapy from Salford University in 1999. She spent the first 8 years of her career with Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust where she held the positions of Team Leader for Orthopaedics at Llandough Hospital, Team Leader for Trauma at UHW and Team Leader of CRI Physiotherapy Outpatient departments. These positions allowed Elin to gain a wealth of experience in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitations of musculo skeletal disorders.

During her time in private practice, Elin gained specialist knowledge and skills in the field of Occupational Health and Ergonomics. This included providing specialist onsite physiotherapy service to a range of industries, which helped reduce their sickness absence rates from musculo skeletal disorders.

Elin is also experienced in the delivery of Clinical Ergonomic Workplace Assessments, Functional Capacity Evaluations and Work hardening rehabilitation programmes. Elin is passionate about the role of physiotherapy in preventing and reducing workplace musculoskeletal disorders, and the rehabilitation of patients back to functional activities.

Elin has been a qualified acupuncture practitioner since 2004 and is a fluent Welsh speaker.

Mr Garry Trainer

Osteopath B.O  D.Ac

New Zealand born Garry Trainer has spent the last 25 years in the UK, and has had practices in both Harley Street and Primrose Hill, combining osteopathy, acupuncture and massage therapies to treat a myriad of debilitating conditions. Garry now runs additional weekly private clinics at Vale Healthcare's Vale Hospital. Garry is a unique and pioneering practitioner believing and promoting the positive aspects that complementary medicine has to offer, in combination with top medical and surgical consultants should circumstances require.

Garry trained as a nurse at Auckland General Hospital, and then came to the UK from New Zealand in the late 70′s studying acupuncture at The London School of Chinese Medicine, and osteopathy at The Andrew Stills College of Osteopathy. Impressed at how these treatments had helped his own recurring back pain following a rugby accident in his twenties, Garry decided that others should benefit too.

Garry believes that in combination or in isolation, osteopathy, acupuncture and massage can treat a range of conditions successfully without requiring medication and feels proud of the fact that he has had many successful results where conventional medicine has failed.

‘My approach is a combination acting upon the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems and acts as a natural source of pain relief releasing endorphins (which have a similar chemical structure and effect as morphine) therefore bypassing the need for many conventional drugs.

Often people get down off my table, liberated from their pain. Treatment is instinctive to me. I just listen carefully to my patients and follow with my instincts to come up with what is required. I suppose I’m a bespoke practitioner. No two treatments are the same. It’s a very rewarding and satisfying feeling to be able to help others who are suffering and in pain.

Osteopathy and acupuncture are recognised and acknowledged complementary therapies. They really work. 20 years ago, these therapies were viewed with scepticism and doubt. There’s been a massive sea change. I’ve experienced it and am proud to be at the forefront of changing perceptions and pioneering these treatments which really do make a difference to people’s everyday lives and well-being.’

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