Not only do we treat adults but we have a specialised children’s physio service for 16 year olds and under in the Claygate clinic. This special group of patients require a different type of treatment approach to adults.

Sara McGowran is an experienced specialist children’s physio working at The Royal free Hospital and The Physio Company. She has a holistic approach to treatment and makes the rehabilitation exercises creative and enjoyable as well as being highly effective.

The types of problems that she can treat are:

• Back pain, neck pain, hip pan, knee pain
• Ankle instability/weakness/pain
• Positional scoliosis
• Osgood Schlatters and Severs disease
• Hypermobility or children who are extremely flexible and are weak or have poor balance/falls because of this
• Difficulties with balance and co-ordination
• Advice/exercises for in- toeing
• Children with tip-toe walking
• Treatment after orthopaedic surgeries including SCFE stabilisation, hip de-rotational osteotomy, post-op Achilles lengthening
• Joint and muscle rehabilitation after fractures
• Gross motor delay developmentally i.e children not yet crawling, sitting, slow to walk
• Strengthening with children with cerebral palsy but who are able to walk or walk with a walking aid