ABOUT LUCIE
With seventeen years working as a chartered physiotherapist in public and private hospitals, private clinics and on the sports pitch in Ireland and abroad, Lucie Hanaghan problem-solves in an evidence-based, positive and practical way. Lucie has experienced first-hand traumatic sports injury, rehabilitation and surgery during many years competing in equestrian sport. This gives her a personal understanding of the impact of being injured, not being able to train, compete or take part in everyday activities. She also appreciates the individual commitment needed to rehabilitate back to normal life and sport. She brings motivational skills, attention to detail and thorough knowledge of training to provide sound individual advice and solutions for your injury or condition.
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Physiotherapy provision for teams and events includes
Mayo GAA Men's Senior Gaelic Football Team 2007-2010
European Touch Rugby Championships Paris 2008
Burrishoole GAA 2008-2010
Robert Plant, Usher Hall Edinburgh 2010
Touch Rugby World Cup Edinburgh 2011
Castlebar Celtic Women's FC (NFL) 2014-2015
Gael Force West 2008, 2009 & 2014
Westport RFC 2013-2014
Rugby 7's Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014
Polyclinic Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014
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Previous places of work include
Peak Performance Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic, Ballyvary, Mayo
Spire Murrayfield Hospital, Edinburgh
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London
Heatherwood & Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust, Slough & Ascot, Berkshire
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Competed internationally. Born in Ireland, Lucie grew up in Dublin, Canada and the island of Guernsey. She has successfully competed internationally for Ireland and Great Britain in equestrian sports and for Ireland and England in International Touch Rugby. She was selected as a member of the Irish equestrian team at the Hickstead International Young Rider Festival in 1998. She represented GB twice as a student (1998, 2000) and won Gold at the Nations' Cup as an individual in Bonn, Germany in 2000. She qualified for and competed at the British National Championships for both show-jumping and dressage over a number of years. While living and working as a physiotherapist in London, Lucie was selected as a member of the England Women's Touch Rugby team in 2005. With this team she won gold at the European Championships (2006) and went on to play at the World Cup in South Africa (2007), finishing fourth in the world - the most successful result for a northern hemisphere team at that time. On her return home to Ireland, Lucie competed internationally as a member of the first Irish Women's Touch Rugby team (2013). Lucie qualified for the Dublin Horse Show at the RDS with Ricanga, an Irish Sports Horse she owned, bred and produced. She went on to win the Irish FEHL Young Event Horse League (2008), for which she won the Irish Sport Horse Breeder's Award that year.
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Hiked and wild camped over 5,500km in remote mountainous and coastal regions of Europe during sabbatical, carrying all provisions.
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Lucie has played many different types of sport including tennis, rugby union, golf and still enjoys mountain biking, rock climbing, long distance hiking, swimming, trail running, cross-country skiing and surfing.
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Lucie uses her professional expertise from both clinical and research experience combined with time spent in a variety of settings - from sports pitch to mountains and from equestrian sport to farming - in order to analyse and problem solve your injury by the most direct effective route, making each step relevant to you and your everyday life.
Professional qualifications include
BSc (Hons) Comparative Anatomy (First Class), Bristol 2000
MSc Physiotherapy (Distinction), Edinburgh 2003
PgD Health & Social Care (Distinction), Glasgow 2012
PgC Musculoskeletal Diagnostic Ultrasound (CASE accredited), Glasgow 2012
SNOMED Clinical Terminology Implementation Certificate, London 2018
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Other qualifications include
Accredited Equestrian Coach 1997
Touch Rugby Referee 2006
Teagasc Green Cert 2012
FIBKA Ireland Level 1 Beekeeping 2017
FRS/Teagasc Best Practice in Milking (Distinction) 2018
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Clinical experience includes
PgC Musculoskeletal diagnostic ultrasound, Glasgow Clinical scanning training in Radiology departments of Mayo General Hospital, Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Spire Murrayfield Hospital Radiology departments eg to monitor and assess rotator cuff, Achilles and patellar tendon injuries and within consultant led rheumatology clinics for guided injections and monitoring disease progression.
Sports Medicine Clinic, Spire Murrayfield Hospital, Edinburgh Worked alongside consultant sports physician and podiatrist reviewing musculoskeletal patients needing specialist assessment, second opinion or referral for further investigations such as MRI/CT.
London NHS Hospitals Clinical lead physiotherapist elective and trauma orthopaedics; musculoskeletal outpatients; specialist hand outpatients; A&E physiotherapy triage service; Intensive Care Unit; amputee rehabilitation; acute stroke unit; hydrotherapy; neuro-rehabilitation; pain clinic; on-call respiratory physiotherapy; post-natal physiotherapy at Lindo Wing Maternity Hospital Paddington; clinical training coordinator for physiotherapy students from London universities.
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
PgD Health & Social Care (2012) Lucie conducted a research project looking at the efficacy of the potential introduction of one-stop shoulder clinics for rotator cuff pathology in Ireland and the UK, compared to traditional orthopaedic clinics, from the perspective of patient outcomes and service costs (2011). For the same MSc level qualification, Lucie created her research project proposal “The effect of lumbopelvic stabilisation training as treatment for acute non-contact hamstring injuries in Gaelic footballers – a randomised controlled trial” (2011).
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St Mary's Hospital Paddington (2006) Lucie worked with physiotherapy and medical colleagues to establish a new physiotherapy triage service in A&E where she wrote and disseminated evidence-based guidelines eg whiplash guidelines for prognostic indicators. At the same time, Lucie was the hospital's independent clinical assessor for the nationwide 'ACTIVE' clinical trial evaluating autologous chondrocyte implantation as an alternative for conventional surgical treatments for chondral defects in the knee.
MSc Physiotherapy (2003) Lucie's thesis compared the efficacy of different structures of mental imagery practice on motor learning outcomes in the context of neuromuscular rehabilitation. Lucie produced SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) guidelines for exercise therapy of the rheumatoid hand as a project towards her final grade.
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BSc (Hons) Comparative Anatomy (2000) With sponsorship from Toshiba Medical Systems, Lucie designed and carried out a large comparative study to evaluate the accuracy of using diagnostic ultrasound to estimate body composition in eighty horses. She compared the findings to two previously established measurement tools - bioelectrical impedance analysis and body condition scoring. Lucie presented the results at the British Equine Veterinary Association Congress (NEC Birmingham, 2000) where she introduced its clinical potential for equine anaesthesia and nutrition. Lucie was also involved with the measurement of physiological parameters in racehorses on high speed treadmills in the Equine Sports Medicine Centre at the University of Bristol Veterinary School (eg VO2max) as well as high speed kinematics and force plate analysis for lameness prediction and diagnosis.
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Research Assistant (2000) Department of Animal Welfare & Behaviour, University of Bristol Veterinary School. Lucie worked as part of a team implementing quality scientific research to support the regulation of animal management through policy change: Lucie measured behavioural stress in commercial chickens in response to variables in their transport and living conditions such as temperature, light, vibrations and sound. This research directly improved UK and European wide regulation of conditions for intensively farmed chickens. In a second research project, Lucie graded equine gastric ulceration from endoscopy studies as a measure of physiological stress. Nutritional and management recommendations disseminated as a result of this research directly improved welfare and health in equines.
