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2025 Injury Rehab Network Events

We are excited to confirm the schedule of Injury Rehab Network events in 2025 in partnership with BASRaT. The events will include talks from exceptional expert guest speakers with a combination of online and face to face events.

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About the Injury Rehab Network

Sterosport is the sports division of Steroplast Healthcare dedicated to supporting sports medicine practitioners and sports teams, facilities, and governing bodies. In 2019, Sterosport established the Injury Rehab Network as a means for sports injury professionals to network, share ideas and collaborate. The events provide a fantastic opportunity for Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for any therapists, physios, rehabilitators, or other sports professionals to keep up to date with the latest thinking, developments, and evidence in the sector.

The format of each event is a keynote speech, followed by question and answers. The Injury Rehab Network organisers work hard to source leaders in the field of sports medicine.

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2025 Event Details

Dr Geoff Davies

10th February, 7pm – 8pm online. Dr Geoff Davies – Consultant Sports Physician, Team Doctor WRU and British & Irish Lions (2021)

Geoff is a Consultant Sports Physician with 25 years’ experience in professional rugby union. He was formerly Team Doctor to Cardiff Blues & Wales U18 prior to his appointment to the WRU National Squad in 2012. Until recently he had a thriving private practice in Cardiff which he has recently curtailed to wholly concentrate on his rugby commitments.

Previous roles included SEM Physician at Tidworth & St Athan RRU’s and SEM Physician at BUPA MSK in Bristol.

He had previously spent 16 years as a GP partner in Barry before pursuing a full-time career in Sports Medicine in 2006.

He gained entry to the SEM Specialist Register in2011. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine and a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He has a master’s degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Bath and a Postgraduate certificate in diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound.

He was an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University and is an examiner for the Bath University MSc course in Sports Medicine. He is also an examiner for the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine UK.

Behind the scenes with the WRU and British & Irish Lions Team Doctor

In this presentation Dr Davies will discuss his roles and what they entail, with an emphasis on the medical aspects of international rugby union.

Event bright banner female athlete health 1000

12th February, 4pm – 8pm at UA92, Manchester. Prehab and Rehab in Female Athlete Health

Sterosport, BASRaT and UA92 are pleased to be working together to bring a unique CPD event to sports rehabilitation practitioners and students. Taking place at UA92 in Manchester on Wednesday 12th February from 4pm – 8pm. The event will feature presentations and practical sessions with expert practitioners from professional/ elite sports medicine and rehabilitation.

Click here to find out more and register to attend. We are limited to fifty spaces so please book early to avoid disappointment!

Guest Speakers

A panel of expert practitioners will share insights into the latest evidence-based practice in elite female athlete health. The guest speakers below will provide a combination of theory and practical sessions using the state-of-the-art facilities at UA92.

  • Yasmin Parton-Sotomayor (Sport Rehabilitator) and Georgie Perris-Redding (Player/ Captain), Sale Sharks Women
  • Eryn Barber (MSc Strength and Conditioning)
  • Michael Carolan (Sport Rehabilitation Subject Lead, University of Salford)
  • Steve Phillips (Physiotherapist, Senior Lecturer Edge Hill University)
  • Dr Wayne Diesel (Physiotherapist)

Event details

  • Date – Wednesday 12th February 2025
  • Time – 4pm – 8pm
  • Cost – £25 + Eventbrite fee
  • Location – UA92, Manchester
  • Sign up – Register to attend in person

Refreshments will be available, and delegates will receive a digital certificate of attendance from BASRaT.

Dr Nicola Keay

24th March, 7pm – 8pm online. Dr Nicola Keay – Hormone Health Expert

Nicky Keay is the author of “Health Hormones and Human Potential: A guide to understanding your hormones to optimise your health and performance.” Her latest book explores “The Myths of Menopause.”

Nicky is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at, Division of Medicine, University College London. She lectures and conducts research in the area of exercise endocrinology, with publications in this field. Nicky’s clinical endocrine work is mainly with active women, exercisers, dancers, and athletes, with a focus on relative energy deficiency in sports (REDs) and those navigating perimenopause/menopause.

Nicky works to provide a more personalised approach to female hormone health for all ages. Nicky is a medical advisor to Scottish Ballet and a keen dancer herself taking four ballet classes per week.

Nicky’s presentation will consider health and hormones in the master’s athlete age group, including the menopause.

Nick Worth

9th April, 7pm – 8pm online. Nick Worth – Physiotherapist

Nick has been working within Professional Football for over 23 years. He is a highly experienced Physiotherapist who has spent most of his career with Premier League teams. He was the England Under 21 Team Physiotherapist between 2000-2003.

Within the Medico-Legal field, Nick has been the Expert Witness in some of the most significant cases involving Premier League Players and Staff of the past few years. Several of the cases that he has been involved in have subsequently altered the landscape for Health Professionals dealing with Elite Level Athletes on a regular basis. Nick has been able to combine his wealth of experience in working at the top level of professional sport – both in the UK and internationally – with a realistic, professional and level headed approach to his Medico-Legal work.

Nick also advises the Players Trust regarding the Sports Medicine and Performance issues. It is a group set up to look after the safeguarding and wellbeing of youth football players who wish to protect themselves from influences in and out of the professional game that may adversely affect their career progression – financial, performance, injury and educational.

Nick was a key member of the medical team that helped Al Jazira, from Abu Dhabi, win the league and cup double for the first time in their history in 2011. He has also worked for Bolton Wanderers, West Bromwich Albion, Manchester City Academy, Wigan Athletic, Fulham, Burnley, Sheffield Wednesday, and the Thailand National Team.

He is an experienced lecturer and Module Lead of the MSc programme at Salford University. As a Fellow of the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine, Nick teaches Physiotherapists and GPs about manual therapy skills, manipulations, and injections. Nick also lectures internationally on sports injuries and musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of injuries.

Nick’s presentation will discuss the medico-legal field in elite football/ sports.

Lucy Brazier

7th May, 7pm – 8pm online. Lucy Brazier – Sport Rehabilitator

As with many practitioners, Lucy’s interest is sports injury was sparked by her own experience with injuries. As a junior sprinter with Worcester Athletics Club, Lucy experienced multiple modalities of treatment, igniting an interest in athlete support roles. She quickly adapted and completed coaching qualifications and a personal training course.

After a stint travelling and living in Sweden, Lucy returned to study Sports Rehabilitation BSc (Hons) at UWE Bristol and quickly became involved with Bristol Rovers FC Academy where she has continued to treat youth athletes with sports injuries, conduct rehabilitation protocols and honed her skills in emergency pitch side first aid.

Since qualifying, Lucy has also spent time working with multiple racing drivers and teams in Motorsport, preparing and recovering for races, managing nutritional requirements, and guiding recovery and rehabilitation strategies. More recently, Lucy has been in the process of completing her studies to become a Performance Lifestyle Practitioner, a mentoring service for world-class athletes balancing complex lifestyles and high-performance sport.

Lucy’s presentation will focus on sport rehabilitation in motorsport with insights from her experience with motor racing drivers.

Dr Jon Houghton

18th June, 7pm – 8pm online. Dr Jon Houghton, Consultant in Sports Medicine and Rheumatology, Fortius Clinic

Dr Jon Houghton is one the UK’s most senior and respected opinions in Sport and Exercise Medicine and Rheumatology. He has extensive elite sport experience and regularly consults to multiple premiership teams, the ECB, RFU and UK Sports Institute and Olympic athletes. He has extensive experience in treating elite athletes, city workers, weekend warriors, adolescent sports injuries and those in middle and later life who want to remain fit and healthy.

He worked at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley court for 8 years where he ran the lower limb rehab unit before moving into full time sports and private practice initially at London Bridge Hospital before joining Fortius Clinic in 2016 where he is the elite sport service lead.

He has a specialist interest in tendon pathology, bone stress injuries, hip and groin pain and inflammatory arthritis. He initiated a complex lower limb tendon clinic in 2017 alongside Mr Jarrod Antflick and the surgical team at Fortius Clinic which regularly treats national and international athletes. He runs an elite bone stress clinic utilising the latest in imaging and medical therapies to accelerate recovery from bone injury. He also has a wide range of experience in upper and lower limb overuse and running injuries, bone stress injuries, Pars fracture, adolescent overuse injuries, hip and groin pain, exercise induced leg pain and injury rehabilitation. His rheumatology interests are bone stress, gout, inflammatory spinal conditions, and inflammatory joint conditions that affect young or athletic people.

He has worked for the Football Association of Wales since 2010 and as Chief Medical Officer from 2013 including Euro 2016, Euro 2020, and the World Cup 2022. He has been lead doctor for Surrey County Cricket Club since 2015 including Championship wins in 2018, 2022, 2023 as well as doctor to the Oval Invincibles Hundred Tournament champions in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Dr Houghton’s presentation will discuss tendon injuries with insights from the complex lower limb tendon clinic that he initiated in 2017.

Dr John Rogers

7th July, 7pm – 8pm online. Dr John Rogers – Consultant Physician in Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine

Dr John Rogers is a Consultant Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) Physician who specialises in orthopaedic and musculoskeletal problems. His work involves treating people with medical problems related to physical activity e.g. overtraining syndrome, cardiac and respiratory problems with exercise, vascular disease, concussion, mental health problems and nutritional deficiencies.

John holds additional qualifications in musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging. He regularly performs ultrasound, X-ray and CT guided soft tissue, spinal and joint injections to help facilitate progression of rehabilitation.

He works with a multidisciplinary team of medical and surgical consultants, physiotherapists, and sport science colleagues in coordinating care for patients.

John works as a Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University where he leads on the team physician module of the MSc course in SEM. He is also Training Programme Director for SEM in NW England, overseeing training of junior doctors in SEM regionally and sits on the National Specialist Advisory Committee for SEM. His previous positions include Chief Medical Officer to British Triathlon, Institute Medical Officer to British Athletics, Consultant SEM Physician at the Defence Military Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court and as Chief Medical Officer to Team GB at Youth Olympic Games.

John has had a passion for sport and exercise since childhood. He competed for Sale Harriers Manchester as a middle-distance runner and won Northern Ireland senior titles at 800 and 1500m during this time.

John will discuss diagnosis and management of bone stress injuries.

August event to be confirmed.

Ali Emery

15th September, 7pm – 8pm online. Ali Emery – Senior Lecturer in Sports Rehabilitation at St Mary’s University and Medical Lead for England Ice Hockey

Ali Emery is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Rehabilitation at St Mary’s University in Twickenham and the Medical Lead for England Ice Hockey. In her early career as a Sports Rehabilitator she worked in residential rehabilitation settings with injured fire fighters and the military. In both of these units, she was exposed to a plethora of injuries from a wide variety of patients from elderly, retired fire fighters to the front line, infantry soldiers. In this time, she also saw injured athletes back to game fitness across many sports such as ice hockey, rugby, football, and basketball alongside studying for her MSc in Strength and Conditioning.

In her current role with England Ice Hockey, Ali has focused on enhancing medical provision across the England program, introducing robust medical policies, and ensuring the safety of athletes. She has also been instrumental in implementing new policies nationwide, such as mandatory concussion education for coaches, to improve basic understanding of recognise, remove & return to play at all levels.

In February 2025, Ali is due to begin a PhD that will explore the effectiveness of medical policies and procedures in UK ice hockey, comparing them to those in other countries and sports. This research will include injury surveillance to identify common injuries in the sport and highlight areas needing attention. Ultimately, Ali’s work aims to develop new policies that will maximise the safety and well-being of players in UK ice hockey.

Ali’s presentation will share insights from injury, rehabilitation processes and medical provision in UK ice hockey.

Mr Steven Corbett

13th October, 7pm – 8pm online. Mr Steven Corbett – Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder Surgeon, Fortius Clinic

Mr Steven Corbett BSc PhD FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder Surgeon

Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London 2003-2024

Fortius Clinic, London

Steve Corbett qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital, London in 1990.  He undertook surgical training, both in the UK and France, working amongst others with Roger Emery and Laurent Lafosse. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) for his work on fracture healing in 2000.

In 2003, he was appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London, specialising in Upper Limb Surgery. Subsequently, he also became one of the founder members of Fortius Clinic, London.

Steve is a named reviewer for a number of medical journals and is also the editor/ contributor of several leading textbooks.  His research interests include clavicle fractures, acromioclavicular joint injuries, shoulder dislocation and rotator cuff tears. He was a member of the BESS Research Committee and has been involved in the development of several National guidelines. He has held a number of managerial roles in the NHS and private medicine, principally in relation to Clinical Governance and his commitment to ensuring a quality agenda.

In the past, he was a very keen sportsman and now enjoys trying to help both amateur and professional athletes to successfully return to their chosen activities.

Steve’s presentation will consider the latest evidence-based approaches for the management and treatment of shoulder injuries in sport.

November event to be confirmed.

Mr Joideep Phadnis

3rd December, 7pm – 8pm online. Mr Joideep Phadnis – Consultant Elbow and Shoulder Surgeon, Fortius Clinic

Joideep Phadnis is an experienced Elbow and Shoulder Surgeon who has an established tertiary level practice within the NHS at University Hospitals Sussex in Brighton. He has gained an excellent reputation for delivering high-quality outcomes, and his private practice sees patient referrals from GPs, physiotherapists, and other consultants both in the Southeast and further afield.

Joideep’s expertise encompasses the full range of elbow and shoulder surgery, including treatment of sports-related conditions, arthritis, and trauma. He does this through application of the latest techniques including minimally invasive surgery and computer planned surgical interventions. He actively participates in research and innovation, having published around one hundred peer-reviewed articles on topics such as shoulder and elbow replacement, tendon problems, elbow arthroscopy, shoulder and elbow trauma and patient safety.

He is a passionate medical educator, serving as an honorary clinical reader at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings, and a teacher to fellow orthopaedic surgeons. He is the director of the Sussex Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship and serves on committees for several international orthopaedic organisations including the British Elbow and Shoulder Society, ESSKA and ISAKOS.

In 2023, Joideep was awarded a National Clinical Excellence award for his dedication and contributions to the field, with particular reference to his endeavours in elbow surgery, which remains his most niche interest.

Joideep’s presentation will provide insight into the treatment and management of elbow injuries.

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