Our Team

Pierre Van Dyk

Physiotherapist

Pierre received his formal education in South Africa, in Pretoria, and completed an Honours degree in Physiotherapy in 2000. After qualifying Pierre ran his own clinic in Pretoria for four years where he specialized in sports injuries and musculoskeletal problems. He was also selected as lead physio for the Blue Bulls Super 15 rugby team for two years during this time. He then decided to travel and arrived in the UK in early 2005.

Pierre started working for Ford in Southampton to assess and implement injury prevention programmes in the workplace as a certified OMT spinal physio with extensive experience in ergonomics. After eight months he accepted a position at Optimal Spine, where he is expanding his interest in musculoskeletal and sports injuries. He works closely with patients in regards to posture and exercise, and treats children with physical development problems as well as ladies with pregnancy related issues.

Pierre applies his knowledge to better understand how patients injure themselves, and seeks out ways to prevent related issues. Pierre shares his experience and knowledge as he believes that educating the patient creates a better partnership for the healing process.

Grace Reilly

Sport Rehabilitation Therapist

Since graduating from St Mary’s University, Twickenham in July 2018. Grace has been heavily involved with various sports clubs and competitive environments providing injury diagnosis, rehabilitation and emergency first aid. Her main settings have been within the GAA and SERC Irish Dancing where she has been able to use her skills to help both acute and chronic injury patients back to full fitness and trophy success.

Being a part of numerous Gaelic football and hurling teams across North and North West London has exposed Grace to a plethora of injuries for clients of all ages and sporting ability. They are sports that have been in her family throughout the years and she’s very proud to continue the tradition.

Grace has been curious about injury rehabilitation and re-injury prevention from an early age as being an Irish dancer herself saw her pick up injuries which later resulted in prematurely stepping back from dancing competitively. Her love for dance didn’t stop when Grace hung up her shoes, as the experiences and understanding of the extremes the body is pushed to in this industry lead her to also work with Principle ballet dancers in the London Coliseum and with World Championship Irish dancers across the Southern England region.

Despite the range of clientele, Grace’s main focus in her treatments with all patients have always remained the same; to restore pain free movement and to provide each individual with specific rehabilitation exercises to avoid a repeat of their injury. She believes it’s really important not to only just fix your problem, but to make yourself even stronger than before.

Samuel Harry

Sport Rehabilitation Therapist

Samuel graduated in 2015 from St. Mary’s University with a degree in Sport Rehabilitation. During his studies he gained vital knowledge in functional rehabilitation exercises and hands on treatment. He is also keen runner, competing nationally in 800m as well as various events up to half marathons.

Samuel’s wide ranging personal and professional experiences, coupled with several years in a clinical environment, mean he is able to help clients deal with all types of injuries. These can be anything from lower back pain to knee pain and posture awareness. He strongly believes that by gaining an understanding of the body’s movement and habits, we can better appreciate its sub-conscious compensations and therefore the true reason why the pain has occurred. Only once this reason is unearthed can treatment be fully successful.

Samuel strongly advocates personal, individually prescribed exercises to help alleviate pain, such as strengthening activities and working on weaknesses; an excellent recovery and enhanced quality of life will then follow. He specialises particularly in functional injury rehabilitation, running coaching and in-depth injury assessment.

Samuel believes in working closely with his colleagues to achieve the very best outcome for his patients. He runs a range of programs concerning treatment and individual exercises with particular focus on tailored maintenance.

Harrison Agombar

Doctor of Chiropractic

Harrison has always been fascinated in the human body and how improper biomechanics of the skeletal system can be the origin to an assortment of symptoms. His chiropractic career started when he had a role as a personal assistant to a Chiropractor in East London where he witnessed incredible results which he calls ‘Miracles’.

Harrison believes health is much more than just the absence of disease, he believes that health can be optimised through removing interference on the nervous system restoring optimal function.

From a young age Harrison has taken part in a variety of sports, such as badminton, martial arts and cross fit. Chiropractic care has not only given Harrison the ability to train and compete without recurring injuries but also enhanced his performance all round.

This gave Harrison the incentive to attain a degree in chiropractic which he is very passionate about. Now, he has the gratification of seeing outstanding results (“miracles”) in his own patients.

Spreading the word: It seems apparent to Harrison that among our community there is a huge lack of understanding of the nervous system and that if people had some guidance they would have much more knowledge on how to help with their own symptoms and performance.

This year Harrison is coming round to business’s in London educating on the effect poor office ergonomics has on the body and the importance of maintaining a healthy nervous system. Chiropractic isn’t just a career for Harrison, it’s a lifestyle.