…and undergraduate in sports rehabilitation. Prior to joining Joint Operations – Recovery Division, Matt specialised as a sports physiotherapist, working extensively within elite and professional sport.

He has held roles across Rugby Super League, the Women’s Professional Rugby (WPR) programme, Premiership Football, and served as the Lead Programmes Physiotherapist for England Rugby League. 

… University Hospital Southampton and Portsmouth University Hospitals as part of a paediatric orthopaedic hub and spoke practice. She has a special interest in all paediatric and adolescent knee pathology and provides a paediatric acute knee service across both sites. She is a Trustee for the injury prevention charity Power up to Play and the Chair for the Women’s ACL Orthopaedic Steering Group. She has a passion for injury prevention in children and young women.

…NHS Foundation Trust and NIHR/HEE Post-Doctoral Bridging Fellow at the University of Nottingham.

Her research focuses on the management and rehabilitation of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, including predictors of return to physical activity after surgery and the effectiveness of preoperative rehabilitation. She has also explored patient experiences and shared decision-making to improve outcomes across the ACL treatment pathway.

Hayley recently completed her PhD, during which she co-developed a shared decision-making intervention and clinical treatment recommendations to support evidence-based ACL injury management. Her broader research interests centre on the design and implementation of complex interventions in the management of orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions. She is passionate about delivering evidence-based rehabilitation to support patients to maintain and return to physical activity.

…in knee injuries. She works as a consultant at the Knee Section of Akershus University Hospital in Norway, where she performs arthroscopic surgery and treats ACL injuries in children and adults. She is also a lecturer at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oslo, where she teaches medical students.

She has a PhD in sports injury research from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, where she studied the management, treatment rationale and long-term outcomes of pediatric ACL injuries. She was involved in the IOC consensus report on ACL injuries in children and adolescents, and she is currently participating in several research projects on ACL injuries, such as the Improve ACL, PAMI and PAKT studies.

She is also a certified sports physician by the Norwegian Sports Medicine Federation, and she has been the team doctor for the Norwegian national ski jumping team since 2015.

…groin pain has led me to specialise in this field for over a decade. I now run a specialist hip pain clinic and consultancy, offering both online consultations and in-person appointments in Exeter and London. Alongside my clinical work, I teach my internationally recognised Simplifying The Hip course to healthcare professionals around the world, and regularly share educational content across all major social media platforms.

…and knowledge. As well as gaining a masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Sciences, she’s also spent time at The Oxford Gait Lab, analysing people’s walking and running patterns, premiership hockey, junior motorsport and in different hospitals within the NHS. Her areas of expertise include paediatric & adolescent pains/injury, sports injuries and pain related to walking or running.

… first half of his career in Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal rehab departments at different teaching hospitals in the south, including the RBH and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He went on to develop expertise in sports medicine, spending time at Wasps Rugby DPP and with independent athletes at grassroots and elite level.

He has worked as a consultant to local independent schools now for the past 8 years and pioneered an injury triage service to diagnose and treat sports injuries early. With a team of other clinicians, he setup an FCP service, including injection clinics, at several GP surgeries across Oxfordshire.

Tom is a visiting lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and an educator on the Oxford VTS programme for trainee GPs. He has also presented at Kids Knee, Therapy Live and BOA annual conference on the topic of ACL injury and its prevention.

In 2019 Tom helped setup the Power Up to Play charity for helping prevent ACL injuries among children and adolescents, where he remains a trustee to this day.

…then came to the UK for foundation training, with a focus on internal medicine. During this time, Dr Kluzek helped to set up and run a cardiopulmonary exercise test service in a local hospital. An experience which led to further specialist training, in sports and exercise medicine. In addition to rotations in rheumatology, orthopaedics and sports medicine, he completed an MSc in Musculoskeletal Sciences at Oxford University.

Following this, he undertook a four year fellowship, culminating in a doctoral thesis on the inflammatory response of joint injuries and early osteoarthritis. Constantly building knowledge to help his patients and his profession. After his doctoral fellowship, Dr Kluzek was appointed as an Academic Clinical Lecturer and Clinician Scientist at Oxford University. In 2018, he was admitted to the GMC’s Specialist Register for Sport and Exercise Medicine.

In 2019, Dr Kluzek was appointed as an Associate Professor and Senior Sports Physician at the UK Sport Institute. He supports Olympic and Paralympic athletes, including those attending intensive rehabilitation and high performance units. Dr Kluzek has supported teams at Olympic and Paralympic games. He has also served as medical officer for professional football and rugby teams, including Oxford University Blues, along with supporting GB Hockey and the England & Wales Cricket Board.

The unique skills this experience brings are welcomed by his patients. To treat knee, ankle, or shoulder injuries, early osteoarthritis, tendinopathies, bone stress fractures, metabolic problems, concussion, or lowered performance. Above all, he puts each patient at the centre of diagnostic and treatment decisions, aiming to restore enjoyment in being active and athletic.

… a spin-out from the University of Oxford delivering clinical-grade 3D gait analysis for everyday practice. She earned a First Class Masters degree in Engineering Science at The University of Oxford and completed her D.Phil. at the Oxford Gait Laboratory, investigating the biomechanics of patellofemoral pain in distance runners. Following her doctorate, she secured an EPSRC KTS award to launch a pioneering clinical gait analysis service that grew into Run3D, later winning an Innovate UK SMART grant; she also received Innovate UK’s Woman in Innovation award. 

…in Rheumatology and providing bespoke Continued Professional Development courses on the recognition, investigation and management of Rheumatological conditions.

He holds an elective NHS Consultant post at The Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, where he is the Specialty Lead for Knee Surgery, previously having been Director for Elective Orthopaedics 2017 – 2020, Director for Trauma from 2008-2012. James is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Bristol Medical School.

James graduated from Cambridge University, underwent basic surgical training in Oxford before working in knee and hip research in Newcastle. He then entered orthopaedic specialist training in the Wessex Deanery and won the EndoPlus Knee Prize in 2005. In 2006, he spent a Fellowship year in Sydney, Australia at the internationally renowned Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Surgery, gaining valuable experience in sports injuries and joint replacement surgery under the supervision of Merv Cross, whilst also spending time with Leo Pinczewski, David Wood and Justin Roe. That same year he was awarded the British Association of Surgery for the Knee travelling fellowship.

James has a keen research and training interest having written numerous published peer-reviewed papers (over 60) and his first book, A to Z of Musculoskeletal and Trauma Radiology, which was published in June 2008. He is also a current reviewer for scientific journals, including the Bone and Joint Journal and The Knee, having previously reviewed for Injury, Acta Orthopaedica and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. James leads on a number of trials and contributes to others as a co-investigator; he works closely with his colleagues as a member of the Bristol Knee Group which carries out research and teaching related to knee surgery both in the UK and internationally. He is a member of both national (BASK Working Groups for Meniscus, ACL Prevention, Arthroplasty and Revision Knee Surgery) and international collaborative consensus groups (International Consensus Meeting for Prosthetic Joint Infection 2018). James is the current BASK (British Association of Surgery for the Knee) Education Representative, sitting on the BASK Executive since March 2019.

His extensive experience has enabled him to offer a comprehensive knee service from ligament reconstruction, meniscal and cartilage surgery, osteotomy, partial, total and revision knee replacement. He leads the Bristol service for prosthetic joint infection of the knee, which runs via a multidisciplinary team at Southmead Hospital. He is well-known to encourage early post-operative mobility with enhanced recovery techniques, such as minimally-invasive muscle-sparing knee joint replacement, avoidance of tourniquets and local anaesthetic infiltrative techniques.

James has a keen sporting interest, previously playing competitive squash, athletics and rugby, but now he tends to be more of a spectator, but still coaches rugby, plays recreational squash and loves skiing! He is also a keen pianist, playing anything from Blues to Classical.  He is married to a local GP at Bristol University Students’ Health Service and together they have three children.

Callum Repper is the Clinical Lead – Performance Rehabilitation at the UK Sports Institute (UKSI), working out of the Intensive Rehabilitation Unit at Bisham Abbey. The Performance Rehabilitation Team provide a suite of rehabilitation services to Paralympic and Olympic athletes and sports, across all summer and winter sports. Their mission is to support optimal rehabilitation across the high-performance system, helping athletes to come back physically and psychologically stronger following injury. Their multidisciplinary team of experts include staff from physiotherapy, strength and conditioning, biomechanics, medical administration, nutrition, psychology, and physiology. They also collaborate closely with the Multisport SEM clinic at Bisham Abbey, and other UKSI central services and technical experts. Over the course of Callum’s time at UKSI, he has been seconded to the BOA for Games-time roles at the 2023 European Games, 2024 Summer Olympics, and 2026 Winter Olympics (pending). Callum is concurrently a member of ATMMiF Faculty, within the Medical Education Team at The Football Association (The FA).

Callum joined the UKSI (at that stage the EIS) from a full time role at The FA in 2022 – he had held the role of Women’s Physiotherapy Pathway Lead from 2018. Prior to The FA, Callum also held roles in Formula 1 motorsport, and in the Women’s Super League. Callum grew up in Perth, Western Australia, prior to studying and commencing his career in Melbourne, Victoria. Callum moved to the UK in 2016. Callum is a Sports Physiotherapist and Strength and Conditioning coach, having completed his tertiary studies in Australia at The University of Melbourne (Bachelor of Physiotherapy) and Edith Cowan University (Masters of Exercise Science – Strength and Conditioning), and having undertaken further accreditation and certification in Australia and the UK.

James is a knee surgeon and founding partner of Knee Specialists, based in Bristol and Bath, UK. He trained in London and completed his postgraduate Master of Surgery degree at Imperial College, where his research focused on the biomechanics of the medial side of the knee.

James undertook his fellowship training at the Clinique du Sport in Bordeaux-Mérignac and at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol, where he was subsequently appointed as a Consultant with a special interest in complex knee reconstruction. From 2016 to 2018, he spent 18 months on sabbatical at the International Knee and Joint Centre in Abu Dhabi.

He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on knee surgery and has received awards both nationally and internationally, including the British Association for Surgery of the Knee President’s Medal, as well as research prizes from the French Arthroscopy Society and the German-Speaking Arthroscopy Society.

James has developed both instrumentation and techniques for arthroscopic surgery and is regularly invited to lecture and teach internationally. He is a past member of the ESSKA Arthroscopy Committee and was Chairman of the ESSKA Collateral Ligaments Working Group. He is currently Co-Chairman of the ISAKOS Sports Knee Preservation Committee and a member of the ESSKA Leadership Committee.

He is a member of the Meniscus International Network (MenIn) and the ACL Study Group Scientific Committee, and sits on the Steering Committee for the UK National Ligament Registry.

He works part time alongside a clinical and research role at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His teaching is focused on musculoskeletal physiotherapy, in addition to health and wellbeing encompassing encouraging physical activity, behaviour change approaches and promoting healthy lifestyle choices.

…from the sport and has had the chance to learn from some of the world’s leading experts in physiotherapy and rehabilitation. His career has seen him work in the UK, Azerbaijan, the USA and The UAE. His treatment philosophies have been shared amongst elite-level professional football players as well as little old granny Doris from Hampshire!

Faraz has helped a wide and diverse range of people return to full function after an injury or episode of pain, whether that be walking to the local high street to grab a newspaper or returning to high-impact sport. He understands the paramount importance of good, honest and meaningful rehab. As a keen sportsman himself, Faraz understands the pressures and frustrations surrounding the injury and is keen to help athletes and the members of the local community from all walks of life and differing athletic abilities return to their pre-injury levels of performance.

Faraz has extensive training and clinical experience in orthopaedic medical assessment and treatment and always looks for the most effective, efficient, and evidence-based approach to help people recover as quickly and safely as possible. His main philosophy is ‘calm shit down, build shit back up!’

Faraz is a clinician, not a researcher so you will not see any publications in journals. However, you will be able to read plenty of Blogs on large physiotherapy platforms such as the ‘Better Clinician Project’ and ‘Physio Network.’ Faraz has also been fortunate enough to deliver talks at large-scale conferences in UK, Poland, Dubai and India.

…in Health Psychology. Collaborating with Power up to Play on PhD project exploring factors affecting the implementation and engagement of ACL injury prevention programmes (IPP) for youth sports players in UK grassroot sports settings. Currently in her second year, she has completed a scoping review to explore factors affecting implementation of IPPs and mapped these onto the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and COM-B model. The next phase of the project involves a national survey and qualitative interviews with key stakeholders to understand how to address barriers and facilitators affecting the implementation of IPPs in the UK for youth sports players.