Anniken Chadwick: What inspired me to become a physiotherapist

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Anniken Chadwick

My mother inspired me to become a physiotherapist. She is a pediatric neuro physiotherapist, and appeared to spend her days 'playing' with children in the hydrotherapy pool, in soft play, on a trampoline or horse riding! Seemed like the funnest job in the world! Interestingly she herself was originally inspired by the physiotherapist who helped her father recover from Polio.
We actually even attended the same Physio school (Nottingham, UK), although my career has taken me down a very different path - women's health - but the light, giving and empathic nature of our work is the same. And I would call women's health fun too!