Doctors' Orders
MOBILITY SERIES
This October, we are collaborating with our medical-minded friends at the UFIT Clinic for a prescriptive series on improving your mobility. We will dive into assessing pain vs. discomfort in the front rack and overhead positions from an anatomical standpoint, and provide you with tools to unlocking your full range of motion.
The series will be led by senior Physiotherapist and 7AM fitness session regular, Declan Halpin. He will also be joined by running expert, Máire Nic Amhlaoibh to address running technique (yes, there's more than just putting one foot in front of another!) in our final session together.
Series Leads
Declan Halpin - BSc, MSc
Declan has always maintained a strong sporting interest, and has previously worked as an Academy Physiotherapist for Crystal Palace Football Club (a professional football club in London, England), and as a Rehabilitation Coach for the Western Province Stormers Academy (a professional rugby club from Cape Town, South Africa). In Singapore, Declan has previously worked as both physiotherapist and strength and conditioning coach to the Singapore National Rugby team (who achieved bronze medal at the recent SEA Games). Finally, Declan travels throughout Asia in his role of Senior Medical Educator for World Rugby, visiting developing rugby unions in the region to teach their medical professionals about pitch-side emergency care and treatment of their athletes and players.
He is passionate about helping his patients achieve their long terms goals through identifying their weaknesses and imbalances, and developing a strategy to eradicate them.
Máire Nic Amhlaoibh - BSc, MSc
She went on to complete her Masters in Physiotherapy in Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Here she began working with multiple semi-professional rugby clubs to further her experience with sports injuries and rehabilitation. After which she returned to Ireland to work in a private practice specializing in sports injuries and rehabilitation, across both amateur and professional sports. During this time she also worked for Basketball Ireland as their lead physiotherapist.
Máire is also an avid runner and competes regularly in Singapore, often placing on the podium. Running is her passion and it is her knowledge of the sport that she has been lucky enough to incorporate into her physiotherapy when treating running and sports injuries. She also uses the principles of Pilates clinically when treating runners, and even in herself, and believes this has contributed to her injury-free running career and success.