Personalised physiotherapy specialising in all aspects of performing arts with clients throughout the UK and Ireland.
Finale Physio can provide help to improve the physical well-being of all performers within all aspects of the performing arts, through one-on-one or group settings for treatment, advice and education.
We work with a variety of performers including musicians, dancers, actors, circus arts and musical theatre performers.
We will look at all aspects of your work including rehearsal and practice lengths, posture, choreography and costumes can often cause repetitive loading and can be a major contributing factor to injury.
Alongside assessing and treatment of injuries and issues, we aim to give the performer the knowledge and confidence through ongoing treatments, client specific exercises and advice, to help them maintain, strengthen and improve their body.
What we do
Hands on treatment, seminars and workshops have become part of the overarching program to assist performing arts businesses and organisations tackle pain and help to create healthy habits within each of the varied performing arts workplaces. This helps performers continue working and performing at the highest level.
Our specialist hands on approach ensures the recovery process is optimal as a fast and accurate diagnosis is key but most importantly, we need to get an understanding as to how and why the injured area has become problematic in the first place.
Rehearsal and practice lengths, posture, choreography and costumes can often cause repetitive loading and can be a major contributing factor to injury.
Our Services
Identification of contributing factors associated with the problem is key (choreography, technique, posture, costumes, volume of practice etc.), therefore, we may ask you to bring your instrument or a video of your performance so we can assist our examination.
We treat a variety of performers including musicians, dancers, actors and musical theatre performers.
Sessions may include:
- Clinically proven manual therapy techniques such as spinal and peripheral joint mobilisation as well as muscle and myofascial deep tissue release
- Personalised performance related stretch and exercise programs via video app
- Taping and strapping
- Performing Arts Injury Prevention and Educational Talks
- injury prevention, warm up and cool down techniques alongside strengthening and stretching routines to compliment each type of performer or group.
Preventive screenings are also available to evaluate posture, technique, movement patterns, strength, flexibility, balance and proprioception to help avoid injuries, aid muscle recovery, as they help us learn body boundaries, increase body confidence and much more. This helps work towards developing a healthy program of strength, strength, balance and rest.
We strive to reduce the amount of specific and unique injuries that occur in performers and artists throughout the year.
Who are we
Kathy graduated with BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy from Ulster University with First Class honours. She has personal experience and understanding of the issues that musicians, dancers and performers across all genres face as she has played in numerous local orchestras and bands over a range of instruments as well as represented Ireland and Northern Ireland in athletics.
She is currently the head physiotherapist for the Ulster Orchestra and Royal Irish Academy of Music, and has a specialist interest in musculoskeletal and performing arts physiotherapy having worked in private practice treating the general public, professional sports athletes and those in the performing arts across Ireland since graduating in 2014.
After discovering the lack of access to performing arts care in Northern Ireland and upon request of the players of the Ulster Orchestra, she began researching and treating within this space and designed successful treatment plans and goals for a range of clients working in different areas within the performing arts.
ACCREDITATIONS
HCPCBSc (Hons) Physiotherapy
CSP 098008
PH104957
Why choose us
Kathy Elite Physio takes pride in being recognised by BAPAM and Help Musicians as a clinician with specialist knowledge in treating performers throughout the performing arts.
If you are experiencing any performance related injuries, you can contact the BAPAM team on the number below to be referred to us and we will work together to find out how we can help you.
BAPAM contact number: 020 8167 4775
BAPAM email address: info@bapam.org.uk
Clients feedback
Very friendly and knowledgable. Great work on my back, and I’ll be looking to help with and old elbow injury.
Can I cancel my appointment for next week? I am feeling no pain at all and haven’t for a few weeks now!
You are a gem! So happy that I’m not suffering with those weird tingly pains anymore. Have told all my pals about you and how you fixed me!
