Nigel Roe
Manipulative & Sports Physiotherapist
Postgrad Dip Manip Phty (Otago) MCSP MMACP HCPC MNZMAP
Qualifications:
- Diploma in Physiotherapy (1990 Otago School of Physiotherapy)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Manipulative Physiotherapy (1993 Otago University, awarded with credit)
Professional Affiliations:
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (MCSP)
- Member of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MMACP) This is a membership organisation of only 1,200 physiotherapists who achieve and maintain a recognised standard of excellence in musculoskeletal physiotherapy.
- Member of The New Zealand Manipulative Physiotherapists Association (MNZMPA)
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HPCP)
Nigel Roe is a postgraduate specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist with 34 years experience and a special interest in sports and spinal injuries and orthopaedic rehabilitation. He qualified from the Otago School of Physiotherapy in New Zealand in 1990, and went on to complete a postgraduate diploma in manipulative physiotherapy at Otago University in 1993. This additional 1 year full-time course focused on specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal and limb musculoskeletal problems.
In addition to extensive private clinic practice, he spent 10 years working full time with premiership and international rugby teams on both sides of the planet, including 6 years managing the medical team as first team physiotherapist at London based Saracens . He retired from rugby duties in November 2004 in order to enter full time private practice. You can now draw on his years of experience and clinical expertise to sort out your own injuries and musculoskeletal problems, sporting or otherwise.
After years being London based, he has settled with his family in Warwickshire and now works from a home based clinic in Hatton Park. He keeps as active as possible with a combination of running, strength training and mountain biking while occasionally dragging out his surfboards, skis and tennis rackets for additional challenge! Rugby duties are now purely sideline spectating his son's Claverdon team action.
Nigel's approach:
Within the framework of accurately diagnosing your problem, sorting it's causitive elements, and making sure you understand how to manage it with correct movement, posture and exercise, Nigel’s treatment techniques are principally “hands on”.... using joint mobilising and manipulation techniques, muscle, soft tissue and trigger point release techniques that can be used to relieve joint pain, reduce painful protective muscle tone/tightness, restore joint movement and enable optimal flexibility and stability.
"The best physio's are old, previously broken ones!".........
Growing up in costal New Zealand, Nigel has been highly active his whole life. He played football, cricket, tennis, was always on a bike, dabbled with early triathlon format, and grew up surfing the beautiful coastline in his hometown Gisborne. A love of skiing came later when he headed to Dunedin in New Zealand's South Island to begin physiotherapy studies. With all that activity inevitably came injuries, and even surgery. The list is a pretty comprehensive top to toes one, and Nigel is grudgingly greatful to have had first hand insight into recovery form fractures, knee meniscal surgery, spinal nerve root compression, dislocated fingers, low back facet joint pain, partial Achilles tendon rupture, patellofemoral pain, A/C shoulder joint trauma, neck origin headache, postural neck and back pain, rib fracture, bad ankle strains, mortons neuroma, tennis elbow, calf muscle tear......and so the list goes on! Reassuringly, he is still very active with a mix of pain free running, mountain biking, tennis and strength training. Having to recover from this huge range of injuries though has given him invaluable insight into road testing sound, evidence based rehab, and to see what actually works from the confusing array of advice and treatment options available for most injuries. Come and see a physio who in all likelyhood has been there, done that, and come out the other side on your particular pain problem or injury! If he hasn't had it himeslf, 34 years of experience means he's seen it and sorted it in plenty of others to date.
