Family-run clinic Bridge Health & Wellbeing in Christchurch, Dorset, is pleased to welcome a new Sports and Musculoskeletal Therapist to its growing clinical team.
Alex Haddow is a sports injury and performance specialist with experience in several settings, including hospitals, private practice, professional sports clubs, international competition and snow sports. Alex combines his dynamic, hands-on approach with current scientific theories and cutting-edge methods to provide patients with comprehensive, specialist treatment or performance care.
As a former professional footballer, Alex’s interest in rehabilitation and sports medicine began following injuries that led to an early exit from the football league. His clubs include Reading, Carlisle United and the Vancouver Whitecaps. He has also competed internationally, representing England on the 5-a-side Futsal team.
Since retiring from football and leaving full-time private practice and University lecturing in the UK, Alex has spent 10 years in the Austrian Alps working as a Sports Therapist. He has recently relocated to Christchurch.
After personally enduring consecutive anterior Cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions, a particular interest developed in preventing and rehabilitating knee injuries. He also has a focused interest in core stability, with his research project winning a prestigious national award.
Paul O’Connell, Owner & Lead Physiotherapist at Bridge Health & Wellbeing, said, “We are delighted to welcome Alex to our clinical team, enabling us to provide even more expertise for our growing client base. While many of Alex’s patients are athletes, the same approach can benefit all individuals regardless of age, ability or activity level. Alex offers an active, hands-on, no-nonsense approach combined with an exercise programme to help clients recover from injury and reach their goals.”
Bridge Health & Wellbeing is a friendly, family-run clinic in the heart of Christchurch in Dorset, with high quality physiotherapy, chiropractic treatment, sports massage and rehabilitation services, expert Pilates, yoga and other wellbeing classes, and state-of-the-art gym facilities all under one roof.