Profiles
Alison Rose MCSP HPC
About Alison
3 time olympic physiotherapist
Ali has been working as a physiotherapist in sports for the last 16 years. She has worked with UK Athletics as a consultant since 2000, working at the Olympics with athletics in 2000, 2004 and 2008. She has also worked at the World Championships in athletics in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, and the European Championships in athletics in 2002 and 2006. She has also worked at the World and European Cross Country Championships since 2003.
Ali is the physiotherapist credited with helping to keep Kelly Holmes injury free in the two years leading up to the Athens Olympics in 2004, helping her to double Olympic gold in the 800m and 1500m. She still works with Kelly supporting developing athletes through Kelly’s On Camp With Kelly Scheme, that now has about 45 up and coming younger athletes.
She is currently working with Jessica Ennis, the double World Champion in the heptathlon.
In addition to athletics, Ali works with a wide variety of sports, supporting international athletes in diving, squash, and triathlon, as well as athletes from swimming, cycling, football, and rugby.
Alison specialises in working with those individuals with a complex injury history, with postural alignment issues and those with chronic musculoskeletal dysfunction preventing normal activities and affecting performance. Clinical special interests include osteitis pubis and chronic pelvic dysfunction, complex injuries, visceral work and breathing disorders that affect sporting performance.
Ali believes that injury prevention and a full and functional rehabilitation is the key to performance and treating injuries in the long term so that they do not recur. CSPC has put together injury prevention screens and are able to rehabilitate clients from the lowest level to full end stage functional rehab.
Ali raced for Great Britain at the marathon at the World Student Games in 1993, at the European Championships in 1994, the Marathon World Cup in Athens in 1995 and the World Championships in 1995. She ran her PB of 2.42.42 in Athens, and was coached by Malcolm Brown
Recent Courses
Advanced osteopathic spinal techniques with French Osteopath J.P Barral
Breathing pattern disorders
Patterns of dysfunction in the lumbar pelvic region