In this episode we speak with leading clinician

Tom Quantrell

Tom is a Chartered Physiotherapist with a Master’s degree in sports and exercise rehabilitation with over 15 years’ experience of working with children and young people (CYP). For over 10 years, Tom has set up and run paediatric musculoskeletal services in both the NHS and private sector. Tom has taught on this subject to a wide variety of audiences nationally and internationally from the team at Great Ormond Street to the medical department of the army foundation college. Tom continues to contribute to the CPD program for the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery and the British Orthopaedic Association. He also lectures on the Paediatric physiotherapy Master’s program at UCL. Tom has worked with numerous elite young athletes including two years with a premiership rugby club’s junior academy, five years with the age group program at England hockey and over seven years with Sport England’s TASS program. 

Tom currently runs the physiotherapy and sports injury clinic at Cambridge University Sports including his role as lead physio for the boat club, as they prepare for their annual boat race against Oxford.

In this episode we discuss:

• Tom’s early inspirations and how he chose his career – (hint: lying on a beach in Fiji watching crabs run up the beach)
• How a significant personal family event, led to Tom re-evaluating life and what was important to him and his young family
• His sporting passion and how he went about getting his dream job (and England kit)
• Being persistent & resilient - if you want something bad enough it won’t just happen! 
• Why children are NOT little adults
• Who helped mentor Tom and the lessons he learnt from them to inspire his career progression
• Not being afraid to assess kids, they are pretty robust

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