Welcome to the website of ACPAT Chartered Physiotherapist, Anna Davison.
ACPAT Chartered physiotherapist Anna Davison, living near Tetbury, has spent her life surrounded by horses.
The need to treat her injured Pony Club eventer sparked what has now become her way of life. Sarah Stafford (nee Arkell) was the catalyst that helped the interest develop to a professional level, and the inimitable fortune of seeing Ronnie Longford in practice led to Anna graduating from Coventry School of Physiotherapy. This progressed to tutelage with Janet Ellis, who is highly regarded for developing and registered her own pioneering technique. Ellis, Stafford and Longford influence her work today.
Her human medical experience is fundamental to her equestrian professionalism, with work undertaken at Frenchay and Cheltenham hospitals, and also with the traumatic muscular skeletal injuries inflicted upon the Gloucester Rugby Club players.
Before settling with her family and horses in Gloucestershire, Anna set up a private practise in human physiotherapy whilst living in Japan in the 1990's. Home life now includes keeping her daughter's event horses fit, as well as supporting her children's sporting careers, from pentathlon to rugby and javelin.
Today, Anna's life revolves around horses, whether treating clients or working with her own. Her aim is to help people recognise when their horses might benefit from physiotherapy and to teach them what they can do to help. Improving the longevity and welfare of the horses she works with is her ultimate goal. Anna continues to attend lectures and conferences, as well as spend time with specialists in their field and read up on any topic that supports this aim.
The need to treat her injured Pony Club eventer sparked what has now become her way of life. Sarah Stafford (nee Arkell) was the catalyst that helped the interest develop to a professional level, and the inimitable fortune of seeing Ronnie Longford in practice led to Anna graduating from Coventry School of Physiotherapy. This progressed to tutelage with Janet Ellis, who is highly regarded for developing and registered her own pioneering technique. Ellis, Stafford and Longford influence her work today.
Her human medical experience is fundamental to her equestrian professionalism, with work undertaken at Frenchay and Cheltenham hospitals, and also with the traumatic muscular skeletal injuries inflicted upon the Gloucester Rugby Club players.
Before settling with her family and horses in Gloucestershire, Anna set up a private practise in human physiotherapy whilst living in Japan in the 1990's. Home life now includes keeping her daughter's event horses fit, as well as supporting her children's sporting careers, from pentathlon to rugby and javelin.
Today, Anna's life revolves around horses, whether treating clients or working with her own. Her aim is to help people recognise when their horses might benefit from physiotherapy and to teach them what they can do to help. Improving the longevity and welfare of the horses she works with is her ultimate goal. Anna continues to attend lectures and conferences, as well as spend time with specialists in their field and read up on any topic that supports this aim.
