Once graduating I worked in paediatrics and private practice, but soon worked out that working with children is for really special physios that can take the increased stress of managing parents when their children are not developing at the normal rate, or are injured. I enjoyed it, but needed something that gave faster results, and was a little less complicated. Since then, I’ve been a private practice/orthopaedic/musculoskeletal physio, whichever you want to call it.
I’ve worked in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, England and here, in the UAE. I’ve worked in sporting environments as well as with the general population, and conversation is definitely better in the general population.
I met ‘my Boss’ in 2006 in London. He came from Sharjah, which to me meant little until he said Dubai, which was where Andre Agassi and Roger Federer had played tennis on the Burj Al Arab – always a sporting reference. Two years later, I moved out here to open a small, personal clinic with him and we finally opened The Physio Centre in February 2009.
I’m still here because I love to travel. There are a lot of things I love (tennis, skiing, eating, shopping, reading, swimming and so on), but travel is key and the UAE provides the most amazing jumping-off point. The last 2 years have been a challenge with the travel restrictions in place, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel and have started to venture abroad again.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all. Next stop, KSA.
