Meet the Team

Director

JAMES COLLINGE

Meet James Collinge, our director and lead clinician. After completing an undergraduate degree in Sport & Exercise Therapy, he went on to complete two master’s degrees in Physiotherapy and Strength & Conditioning, creating broad foundations to his philosophies of assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation from injury. For over more than 10 years James has been fortunate enough to support many professional athletes from a variety of sports; from rugby union with Team GB Sevens, England U20s and Sale Sharks; rugby league with Leeds Rhinos and football with Leeds United Academy. 

Alongside working full-time as a physiotherapist in elite sport, he has always maintained his commitments to private practice, regularly treating patients with recreational, occupational, and everyday life-stressors leading to injury. James delivers his unique insights and experience working with numerous athletes in different sports to every patient journey, ensuring the restoration of pain free function and the most effective return to sport or work.

Qualifications:

BSc Sports & Exercise Therapy  | MSc Physiotherapy  | MSc Strength & Conditioning

Women’s Health and Pilates

ALEX BOUGHEY

Meet Alex, our women’s health, and Pilates specialist. Alongside her commitments to private practice, she works as a senior physiotherapist in the NHS as part of the Women and Children Team in Bolton Hospital. Her role requires her to treat a varied caseload of ante-natal and post-natal patients presenting with pelvic health related issues, post-surgical management following C-section and paediatric populations suffering from musculoskeletal issues. She is qualified in matwork and pre/post -natal Pilates from the APPI and regularly uses reformer Pilates as part of her practice.

Prior to completing her master’s degree in Physiotherapy, Alex studied Sports & Exercise Science at undergraduate level and has a background in elite sport representing England in Netball. She incorporates this additional knowledge in her management of sporting injuries back to performance for her private patients in clinic.

Qualifications:

BSc Sports & Exercise Science  | MSc Physiotherapy

Injection Specialist

BEN HARPER

Ben brings a decade of experience as a physiotherapist in full-time professional sport working for Team GB and in Rugby League with the England youth programme, Leeds Rhinos, and Castleford Tigers. For the last 6 years he has occupied lead medical positions within GB Taekwondo and Huddersfield Giants Rugby League. His role requires him to deliver the most effective musculoskeletal care possible to his athletes and consider a broad range of potential therapy options that may assist in a patients recovery from injury.  

Ben has an extensive portfolio of postgraduate qualifications, achieving masters level certificates in strength & conditioning, applied clinical anatomy, injection therapy and independent prescribing of medicines, all whilst training under Olympic sports physicians. These qualifications allow him to use injection therapy to improve pain, inflammation, and joint function in his athletes in sport and with private patients that he sees regularly in clinic. 

Qualifications:

BSc Physiotherapy  | MSc Strength & Conditioning 

MSc-Level modules:

Non-Medical Prescribing | Applied Clinical Anatomy | Injection Therapy.