About Kevin Powell Physio
As a young boy I dreamed of becoming a professional footballer…I put in the hours and pushed myself as hard as I could until eventually, I made it! I played professionally for 3 years until my injuries caught up with me and a specific injury at age 19 ended my career.
I dedicated myself to my rehab and sought treatment from anyone with ideas and to try and stay in the game I looked for another team, but it all felt like I was running up, through mud on ice. I started to see that it wasn’t meant for me anymore.
Needing to rethink my career and my future, other than the game, I loved the training aspect I decided to look to the fitness industry for a career and qualified as a personal trainer and fitness instructor. I enjoyed helping people achieve their personal fitness goals but soon realised that it wasn’t fulfilling me.
However, it did give me a chance to see that I really enjoyed learning about the human body and wanted to find out even more about how it is put together and functions! I continued my education and studied to become a physiotherapist, and it was here doing this that I could feel the potential of a sense of fulfilment in my career.
I am proud to say that I have been a Physiotherapist for 17 years, always learning as I go along. Want to know more? Listen to the podcast episode below!
What is a Physiotherapist?
Physiotherapy as described by World Physiotherapy is a health care profession concerned with human function and movement and maximising physical potential. It is concerned with identifying and maximising quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, treatment/intervention, and rehabilitation.
My continued education into learning more about treatments and interventions has led me to studying
- Anatomy in Motion
- Acupuncture Association of chartered Physiotherapy
- Cranial Sacral Therapy (Upledger Institute)
- Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilisation
- Douglas heel be activated
- Visceral mobilization ( Barral institute)
- Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization
- Specific soft tissue mobilisation with Glenn hunter
- NAGS – SNAGS Mulligans
- Maitlands Lumbar / Thoracic mobilisation London
The more I discover the great minds of my profession and the books and concepts they have left for Physiotherapy the greater need I feel to look back at the origin of these concepts and techniques to give them justice in today’s world. This has been an amazing discovery for me personally and seeing how my clients respond to these concepts and manual therapy techniques has been astounding. This has driven me to enhance my learning in a broad and deep range of knowledge and skills and attributes within Physiotherapy to ensure my patients get the best chance to help aid their recovery.
My mission is to become the best physiotherapist that I can become by continuing to work towards mastering the fundamentals that make a great Physiotherapist. To do this, I also need patients (unfortunately) and so my hope is that I can provide my patients with a service that encompasses good manual therapy techniques. Good clinical reasoning and good people skills to give clarity and a sense of hope that things can improve if we can be open to change and self discovery. Healing is a process and so it has no destination, what really matters is that we are learning something that can help us improve with each step that we take through the process.
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.