Mrs Rachel Disley

Senior Physiotherapist, Vale Healthcare
Chartered Physiotherapist
BSc Hons

Rachel Disley has experience of sports physiotherapy at the highest level, having worked with Olympians before joining the private physiotherapy team at Vale Healthcare, South Wales' leading private hospital and private clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Rachel first qualified in Sport and Exercise Science specialising in exercise physiology in 2000. She worked in the Australian Institute of Sport for the year leading up to the Sydney Olympics 2000. This involved working with Olympic winning swimmers, rowers and cyclists while also working with the Australian Soccer Team. From this experience Rachel became interested in a career in orthopaedic and sports physiotherapy.

While working with the World Cup Irish Women’s Hockey Squad in physiology capacity, she qualified as a physiotherapist from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. During her time studying she won two Irish Senior Hockey Cup medals and played for the Leinster Senior Team.

Before moving to Cardiff, South Wales, Rachel worked in the main Trauma Orthopaedic centre in Dublin as Senior in Orthopaedics. During this time she specialised in orthopaedic surgery rehabilitation and spinal rehabilitation, gaining a postgraduate certificate in spinal manual therapy.

Rachel works hard to bring together her exercise physiology and manual therapy training in all her treatment programmes. She ensures each patient maximises their rehabilitation and returns to their favourite sport or activity at a higher level than where they left it pre-injury / surgery.

Currently Rachel works closely with all our Orthopaedic Consultants in our state of the art private physiotherapy clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales to provide the best, most efficient rehabilitation programmes to her patients. Previously she has worked with many highly respected Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons in revising and updating best practice rehabilitation programmes for spinal surgery and ACL reconstruction surgery.

Rachel is currently on maternity leave.