Victoria Alfar

Bsc (Hons) Physiotherapy (Newcastle), Diploma Sports Massage, MCSP, HCPC.

Victoria is our Senior Physiotherapist and Lower Limb Clinical Specialist.

She graduated from Northumbria University in 2005 and started her career within the Northumbria NHS Trust before moving on to work within the FIFA Centre of Excellence. Here Victoria specialised in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal and sports injuries and orthopaedic pathologies.

With over 19 years of experience, Victoria's expert knowledge in biomechanics will ensure that she identifies the root cause of your problem, get you off the treatment table as fast as possible and back to your best. She treats both acute and chronic pain, sporting injuries, pre and post operative orthopaedics, joint issues, postural pain, headaches, neck and back problems. Her passion is in the assessment and rehabilitation of knee injuries.

Victoria knows the importance of manual therapy and uses a variety of treatment techniques, such as joint mobilisation, acupuncture, dry needling and soft tissue work. Victoria likes to stay on the cutting edge of her profession and is continuously updating her knowledge. Some of the courses she has undertaken include…

•International Conference on Sports rehabilitation and traumatology: Football Medicine Strategies for Knee injuries: Chelsea FC

•Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Conference: Toronto

•Sports Physiotherapy Level 1

•Sports Physiotherapy Level 2: Anterior Knee Pain

•Sports Physiotherapy Level 2: The Ankle

•Kinematic Rapid Assessment of knee instability

•Advanced Knee Patellofemoral Instability, ACL Reconstruction and Meniscal Repair

•ACL Injury and Reconstruction

•Advances in ACL Rehabilitation

•Kinetic Control Lower Limb and Knee

•McConnell Treatment Concept: Knee and foot pain, shoulder pathology, lower back and leg pain.

•Patellofemoral Pathology in Athletes