Hello. My name is Kelly Dean. I live and work in Worthing, West Sussex. I am married with one son.
I moved to Worthing at the age of eleven and attended
Davison's High School for Girls. During my time at Davison's I was an keen hockey player, spending most of my freetime training with
the school hockey team.
I grew up surrounded by sporting influences and still today have
interests in many different sports, some of which take me literally from one
extreme to another - from mountain climbing to scuba diving.
In my spare time I love to travel - whether it be to weird and
wonderful exotic places or back to the place where I spent my early
childhood years; the beautiful countryside and coastlines of Carmarthenshire
in South West Wales.
Most
recently, I was on a snowboarding holiday in Colorado with my family and through the generosity of a great friend I was offered the chance to experience my first ice
climb. It was amazing and something that I would love to repeat again on my
next visit to anywhere with lots of ice!
It was also an experience for which I am especially
grateful for; In April 2007 I had an accident whilst climbing on
an indoor climbing wall, which left me with a ruptured anterior
cruciate ligament. For many months prior to my operation, I feared that the injury would prevent me from continuing the sports that I loved. It's thanks to an excellent orthopaedic surgeon and commitment to a comprehensive physiotherapy programme
that I was able to climb again and return to an active way of life.
Professional training and qualifications.
It was probably my love of sports and the inevitable
injuries that I sustained that eventually led me to become a Sports
Therapist.
I graduated from Chichester with an Advanced
Diploma in Sports Therapy, encompassing a diploma in Sports Nutrition.
I went on to gain additional qualifications in the treatment and
management of sports injuries with both the Football Association and
the Society of Sports Therapists.
My Sports Therapy qualifications led me to work with footballers, basketball players, triathletes, and cricketers from all levels of sporting ability right up to international professional athletes. After a few years I got tired of having to get up at six am on a sunday morning to stand by the side of a football pitch (usually in the cold rain) and I decided to become clinic based.
I studied advanced remedial
massage techniques with the International Institute of Health &
Holistic therapists and then went on to study the Vodder technique of
Manual Lymphatic Drainage at the Clare Maxwell-Hudson school in
London.
My interest in lymphology and associated pathologies
led me to further studying at the Vodder school in Walchsee, Austria
where I completed my Combined Decongestive Therapy qualifications under the watchful eye of Professor Hildegarde Wittlinger.
I
understand and know what it's like when you are unable to continue with
a sport or a certain way of life because of injury or illness and that
is why I continue to study to be able to provide the best treatment and
rehabilition advise to my patients.
Above: Me at Red Rocks, Colorado, USA, Feb 2008 Below: Training at the Dr. Vodder School, Walchsee, Austria, July 2008
