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Taking an Unexpected Career Path with Pelvic Health Physiotherapist Gráinne Donnelly

Madam Athlete

English - August 16, 2022 06:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MB
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On today’s episode, I’m talking to physiotherapist Gráinne Donnelly about taking an unexpected career path.

Gráinne is a physiotherapist in Northern Ireland helping to change the perception of pelvic floor rehab. Initially, Gráinne planned on becoming the world’s best sports physio. But that was before she was reluctantly assigned a rotation at a maternity hospital and ended up finding her true calling in being able to serve women and their pelvic health musculoskeletal problems that were often neglected and overlooked. This unexpected career path has come full circle as Gráinne has created the first return-to-running guidelines for postpartum women and does research on keeping women active in sports. Gráinne has taken her career outside of the clinic and educates both women and health care professionals through her own podcast and online courses and speaking internationally.

We talk about:

How Gráinne ended up in a career field she didn’t even know existed when she started physiotherapy school.The challenges of specializing early as a young woman and being taken seriously.Gráinne’s evolution from public service to private practice to starting her own podcast and creating her own courses and speaking internationally.

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