Paula Clayton - STT4Performance.com
Background:
Paula Clayton worked as a senior performance therapist for the English Institute of Sport and British Athletics between 2003 and 2014. She has travelled extensively to Olympic Games (Athens, Beijing & London), Commonwealth Games, World and European Championships with GB track and field as part of the medical team during this time.
Prior to 2003 Paula worked in Premiership and Championship football for 4 years. She has taught on two sports therapy degree programmes, delivered sessions to MSc students and sports medicine students, written a number of articles and has an MSc in Physiotherapy and an MSc in Sports Injury Management. Paula has also delivered soft tissue master-classes to senior physiotherapists and soft tissue therapists within premiership and championship football clubs, National Governing Bodies and to soft tissue therapists nationally and internationally through her company www.stt4performance.com.
More recently Paula has been working with the Help for heros charity helping injured service men and women on their journey to becoming Invictus athletes. In addition, over the summer (2019) Paula was the performance manager and physiotherapist for a successful world record challenge (handbike from lands end to John o' groats).
Paula also runs very successful sports injury clinics in Shropshire (established in 1994) and Worcestershire with her husband Rick
Author:
Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction and Piriformis Syndrome: The complete guide for physical therapists
How to treat your own Achilles tendon
Associations:
Health Care Professions Council
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Sports Massage Association (Director of elite sport)
The Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports and Exercise Medicine.
BASEM.