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Weekend warriors get help

Photo by Chris BurvilleEasing pain: Daniel Morgan of Performance Rehab Ltd. massages the calf of patient Ellen Collery.

Weekend warriors and athletes can now find a haven at Daniel Morgan's expanded physiotherapy practice Performance Rehab Ltd.

Since opening Performance Rehab in July, 2005, Mr. Morgan has been involved in providing an extensive variety of physiotherapy services in the community, including the national cricket and football teams and the Bermuda Prison service.

"The arrival of therapists Deanna and Kim McMullen have been a great boost to the team," he said. "They are both well known through their work over the years at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and their continued sporting exploits on the Bermuda racing scene.

"They will add a wealth of knowledge and experience in all areas of physiotherapeutic rehabilitation."

Mr. Morgan continues his involvement in many sporting activities throughout the Island, as a team player for Teachers Rugby Club, Warwick Workman's Cricket Club and as a youth cricket coach.

"The more active you are and, obviously, if you're not as fit as you'd like to be, the more chance you're going to get injured," Mr. Morgan said.

"I find the large majority of the people that I see in the clinic, we call them the weekend warriors. They probably played a pretty good, high level of sport in their day and now they're just doing the weekend thing.

"They're not training as hard or preparing as well as they should. It tends to lead to them getting injured. We patch them up, get them back on the field."

Mr. Morgan, a Bermudian born in Chelmsford, England, returned to Bermuda at the age of two. With a deep interest in sports for all of his life, he pursued a career in physiotherapy, with a focus on sports medicine.

He began his studies at top Canadian university McGill where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in biology.

Mr. Morgan also attended the Manchester School of Physiotherapy and obtained a Bachelor of Science honours degree and attended Trinity College in Dublin where he completed a master's degree in sports medicine.

During and following his studies, he gathered experience in orthopaedics, paediatric and adult respiratory, musculoskeletal and infectious disease/dermatology.

He also worked in hospitals throughout England and Bermuda between 2000 and 2005,and obtained on the field practice as the physiotherapist for the Irish under 19 and under 23 cricket teams, the Irish senior cricket team and Dandy Town Football Club in Bermuda.

Now he is the physiotherapist for the Bermuda senior national cricket team ? for whom he has turned out on occasion ? and the Bermuda senior national football team.

"I feel we provide the best physiotherapy services available on the island and our acupuncture service and our group pilates sessions are very popular," he said.

Performance Rehab is located at the corner of Happy Valley and Shelton Road, located on the outskirts of Hamilton.