Meet The Team
Meet The Team
Our specialists are of the highest calibre in their respective fields and between the four us we have nearly 70 years of experience!
John Blachford BSc (Hons) Osteo, OSCA
John Blachford is both the owner and Principal Osteopath of Freedom Osteopathy & Sports Injury Clinic and Poole Bay Osteopaths.
John started Freedom Osteopathy in 2016 and just after took over ownership of the well-loved Poole Bay Osteopaths after having worked as an associate there for 7 years. “I want everyone in Bournemouth, Poole and surrounding areas to have access to two first class clinics where they can receive quality treatment”
He holds an honours Degree in Osteopathy, graduating in 2001 and is registered with the General Osteopathic Council and Institute of Osteopathy along with being a member of the Osteopathic Sports Care Association (OSCA) and the Royal Society of Medicine.
He has over 20 years of experience working as an Osteopath and Sports Therapist. He also holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering which gives him a unique insight into the biomechanics of the human body.
Over the years John has worked with high-level rugby players, runners, cyclists, judo and karate players along with a stint working with the Riverdance troupe. He spent 8 years working in London after setting up a practice to work with city businesses providing Corporate Osteopathy.
He specialises in the treatment of pregnant women, helping them with sciatica, SPD, reflux, sickness and other pregnancy related problems.
John works everyday at both Freedom Osteopathy and Poole Bay Osteopaths.
Amanda Burger
Amanda is originally from South Africa and has over 13 years of experience working in the sports and fitness industry.
She trained as a Sports and Remedial Massage Therapist with the renowned London School of Sports Massage (LSSM) and achieved a first class pass on a Level 5 BTech qualification, which is the current highest qualification achievable in the United Kingdom for Soft Tissue Specialists.
Amanda has proudly, for the past two seasons, worked within the Medical Team at AFC Bournemouth as a sports massage therapist for the First Team, and has now taken a step back from this role to focus on the business bringing with her a wealth of knowledge gained working as part of the medical team in a Premier League environment.
Amanda says “working at AFC Bournemouth has been a great opportunity for me, enabling me to enhance my skills as a Physical Therapist within a Premiership Environment primarily based on injury, rehabilitation and the nutritional sciences and has given me the opportunity to work alongside a fantastic medial team, which has benefited both myself and my clients.”
There are so many benefits to having regular massage therapy and key rehabilitation techniques to get the body back to its natural state of balance. Clients present with a variety of aches and pains: whether they’re sat at a desk all day, or have a manual job, to suffering with Fibromyalgia, or recovering from a stroke or injury. Manual Therapy, soft tissue work and deep tissue massage alleviates aches and pains in the body. We also provide rehabilitation advice to our clients so they can then continue to rehabilitate themselves at home long term.
Amanda is a BodyMOT certified coach, providing clients with an in depth view of their overall health through a series of diagnostic tests which then gives clients the tools to achieve optimum health. If a client consistently presents with ongoing pain that is not muscular-skeletal then we carry out very specific diagnostic tests to ascertain what is the “driver” for the inflammation in the body and the cause of the potential joint pain, what lifestyle changes could benefit the client to help relieve the inflammatory response in the body and what recovery methods would be best to bring the body back into a healthy state of balance.
To book Amanda please call or text her on: 07789 810752
Or email: amanda@intulohealth.com
Victoria
Victoria has a BSc (Hons) in Nursing Science. Her training supports best practice in ear care and is officially accredited by the British Society of Audiologists (BSA), The British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA), and ENT UK.
Victoria has 30 years of care experience and has already provided excellent ear care to thousands of patients across the area; this includes having completed a large number of referrals to Audiology and ENT.