Paul, pictured with England Cricket superstar Kevin Pietersen, whilst working as a Fitness and Injury Specialist for an elite cricket academy in Melbourne, Australia.
Paul Gough's Career Highlights: Expert advice in the North East, around the world and Working with Darlington Football Club.
Paul Gough is a Chartered and State Registered Physiotherapist and is known for his successful running of the physiotherapy department at Darlington Football Club for more than four years.
His career has included a period at Middlesbrough Football Club and at the prestigious Woodlands Private Hospital in Darlington, where he worked as a specialist physiotherapist for more than two years for the Treatment Room (Darlington) Ltd.
Since 2007, Paul has concentrated his career on the now regional physiotherapy practice, Paul Gough Physio Rooms and is applying his unique brand of modern physiotherapy to patients across the North East. Paul utilises a range of treatment approaches including spinal manipulation and mobilisation as well as designing exercise plans for patients to ensure a full recovery.
Paul’s physiotherapy education began at Northumbria University were he qualified with a Bsc (Hons) in Physiotherapy in 2003. Since then membership to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), the Health Professions Council (HPC) and State Registration (SRP) have followed. Now a member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics (ACPHOE), Paul is regularly consulted by public and private sector companies to offer advice on reducing injury absence and improving work station settings.
Further education has come from the University of Sunderland in the form of a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) which allows Paul to share his knowledge and experience with local colleges and universities in the region.
Paul lectures extensively in the UK on subjects related to his specialist fields of spinal and sports injuries, often to research level students. He is also used by the Football Association of England to deliver emergency first training to schools and colleges in the Durham and Teesside area.
In 2010 Paul was selected from many physio's across the UK to be the lead medical officer and fitness specialist to the prestigious Paul Scholes Soccer academy which saw the Hartlepool born Physio working alongside the Manchester Utd and England football legend in Orlando Florida.
Following on from this USA trip, in 2011 Paul was asked to be the injury and fitness co-ordinator to a specialist cricket academy based in Melbourne, Australia. This saw Paul travel across Australia with talented cricketers from around their home country and the UK, providing injury advice and assistance to ensure a healthy and successful trip for the fledgling cricketers.
Highlights in Brief:
Woodlands Hospital, Darlington (The Treatment Room (Darlington) Ltd.)
Darlington football Club
Middlesbrough Football Club
The Paul Scholes Soccer Academy, Orlando Florida
SC Cricket Coaching - Melbourne, Australia
Tilly Bailey and Irvine (legal physiotherapy specialist)
University Guest Lecturer
Emergency First Aid Trainer - The Football Association
