About Me
My name is Ros Shuttleworth, and I am a Chartered Physiotherapist with 25 years’ experience in getting people moving.
I have worked in elite sport with the England and Wales Cricket Board, Physio to the England u19 men’s cricket team, Notts County Cricket Club, at the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens Tournaments and with both Worcester RFC and Birmingham & Solihull RFC.
I have had my own Private Practice for over 14 years where I have had the pleasure of helping hundreds of individuals restore their natural movement patterns to improve their mobility, reduce their pain and stiffness and return to doing what they love more efficiently.
Over the years I qualified as a UKSCA Strength and Conditioning Coach, an England Athletics Club Coach in Jumps and Sprints, a Master Biomechanics Coach and became a Certified JEMS Practitioner… basically, I love analysing and improving movement!
I have always loved participating in sport, in particular athletics where I was a heptathlete for many years. I also dabbled in hockey and netball in my youth.
I competed as a High Jumper for South East England in my teens, had various injury interruptions through my late teens – early twenties and made a comeback in my 40s to put my demons to rest, and prove that I still had it in me to participate in 7 events.
Turns out I did, and I became British Champion for my age group in the Masters’ Heptathlon and Pentathlon! I am no longer competing in athletics and the pandemic put a stop to my netball comeback, but I have to say I have been loving the non-competitive side of Open Water Swimming in our local lake, introduced to me by my sister and brother-in-law; being at one with nature and exploring the different parts of the park and woodland around.
I find it sad that so many of us have lost the ability to move well, and that so many people I meet are frustrated with feeling “stiff and old,” so I have decided to do something about it!… I have made it my mission to get people moving more!!
As a child I remember my brother bemoaning the fact that the ‘old men’ (in their 30s!) couldn’t move around the hockey pitch as well as the youngsters.
Little did he realise that he too would become one of those ‘old men’ one day, struggling to get up off the floor, or run around the garden with his kids without hurting!
Fast forward a few decades, and whilst taking part in Masters’ athletics with athletes ranging from 35 to their late 80s, I was reminded how amazingly versatile our bodies are. With the right preparation and continued care these folk and I were still running, jumping, throwing, hurdling, vaulting, moving our bodies through many ranges of movement in a controlled, efficient manner (most of the time!!), albeit a little slower than we had done as kids, but we were doing it all the same!
It reinforced my belief that stiffness is not an inevitable part of aging and there are many ways we can help keep ourselves moving.
I realised that with my knowledge and experience, I was in a prime position to help people maintain their mobility and associated sense of wellbeing, despite our ever-advancing years.
