Dan Grimstead MSports Physio (Curtin, Aus), BSc (Hons), MCSP, HPC.

Dan qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1997 with an Honours Degree from the Cardiff School of Physiotherapy. Employed by the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, he quickly specialised in musculoskeletal outpatient physiotherapy, based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.

Since 2004, his specialist role as an Extended Scope Physiotherapy Practitioner - working within the largest Accident and Emergency department in Wales - has given Dan a unique insight into the acute assessment, diagnosis and treatment of those presenting with all types of musculoskeletal injury and pain.

In addition, Dan has worked within the Acute Knee Screening Clinic (AKSS) that has become a nationally recognised public sector enterprise for diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic knee injuries. Working alongside two of South Wales finest Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeons has given him the opportunity to treat an extensive range of conditions that cause pain and dysfunction of the knee joint.

Currently Dan is working with high performance athletes at the Welsh Institute of Sport based at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.

With a strong commitment to evidence based physiotherapy practice Dan travelled to Australia to complete the internationally recognised Masters degree program at Curtin University, Perth. Whilst there he was awarded the Mona Twomey Prize for break through research into a concept to improve the treatment of muscle tendon pain.