Lauren Ellis

Senior MSK Physiotherapist

Lauren is a physiotherapist with over 10 years of experience in the NHS and professional sport. She specialises in the assessment and management of musculoskeletal conditions, sports injuries, and acute and chronic joint and spinal pain, as well as arthritic and rheumatological conditions. She currently works as a Senior MSK Physiotherapist within Hywel Dda University Health Board. Before that she held a Senior MSK role with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and prior to this worked at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, working in ICU, trauma, orthopaedics and stroke. In sport, Lauren spent several seasons as Team Physiotherapist for the Scarlets U16s. She also supported the Scarlets Academy U18s and U20s with training and match cover, and provided relief cover for the WRU Exiles. Alongside her clinical work, she has a strong interest in education, supporting junior physiotherapists and students with clinical reasoning and rehabilitation.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy (University of the West of England, Bristol)

  • HCPC Registered Physiotherapist

  • ESCAPE-pain Facilitator (Hip, Knee and Lumbar Osteoarthritis)

  • Myofascial Cupping

  • Certified Carbon Literate

SKILLS:

  • Diagnosis and management of a wide range of MSK conditions

  • Exercise prescription and early to end stage rehabilitation

  • Manual therapy and soft tissue techniques

  • Sports injury management, including pitchside and post-operative rehabilitation

  • Osteoarthritis management and group exercise programmes

  • Fracture and trauma rehabilitation

  • Shoulder rehabilitation following breast cancer surgery

  • Myofascial cupping

  • Hydrotherapy

HOBBIES:

  • Running (recently completing the Cardiff Half Marathon and currently training for a Spring Marathon), Surfing, Exploring Gower on foot and by bike, and Pottery