Andy Killen
Andy Killen
Physiotherapist & Pilates Instructor
Andy went into a career in physiotherapy for its potential to improve people’s quality of life through quality of movement. It is his firm belief that people don’t fit into neat boxes. Health conditions don’t either, as body systems are interconnected. Physical impairments and pain have wider implications on limiting activities of daily living and restricting normal participation in work, interests and hobbies, changes in family roles and identity. Holistic understanding of an individual and considering their wider health and medical history is fundamental to how Andy sees his role as a physiotherapist.
Andy’s wide range of experience from years working in the NHS includes:
- Primary care musculoskeletal outpatient physiotherapy
- Neuro rehab rotations in specialist inpatient rehab, neuro early supported discharge / community stroke team, community neuro rehab team
- Previous rotations in a university teaching hospital working in orthopaedic outpatients and on a number of wards including spinal, major trauma, more complex elective orthopaedics, general medical and infectious diseases, haematology, adult oncology wards, teenage young adult cancer care, as well as weekend cover of a range of other specialisms
Andy understands the frustration of not being able to do what you love as his Morton’s neuroma and sesamoiditis have limited his running, while post viral symptoms have limited his energy levels outside of work more generally. Understanding that you should pace yourself and managing to do it, with all the different demands life places on you are two very different things.
Outside of physiotherapy, having lived in France, Portugal and Spain, Andy enjoys foreign languages, travel and Nordic noir crime drama. As his foot pain allows, he loves running, as time allows he loves swimming, and as his two year old allows, he loves sleep!