Dr. Gillian Campbell & Christien Bird

Meet Dr Gillian Campbell & Christien Bird

After training in the Netherlands, Christien Bird practiced as a musculoskeletal and pelvic health physio at a teaching hospital in London. She also worked with the clinical research team at Brunel University London after gaining her Master’s degree in research methods at King’s College London. Christien founded the White Hart Clinic in Barnes in 1995, a busy multidisciplinary practice that offers musculoskeletal, pelvic health, psychological and medical services.

She is one of  is the co-founder of the Menopause Movement online certified training and community platform for health and fitness. The movement has created a community and training platform for the fitness and health world to confidently treat & train women into the menopause. She loves everything about movement, continues to compete as an age-group athlete for British triathlon representing Britain. Much of her drive is supporting women in enjoying movement and staying strong. Completely stepping out of her comfort zone, she has registered for an ironman in August 25 and will need all the support & advice she can get!

Gillian Campbell originally trained as a veterinary surgeon at Glasgow University but after discovering a love of sport through rowing and a desire to work with athletes, she retrained as a physiotherapist and qualified in 1995 from University College London. She completed her PhD investigating strain in tendons at the University of Nottingham in 2011 and is currently employed there as a post-doctoral research fellow funded by the School of Primary Care Research. Her research interests are pelvic floor disorders in athletic women and barriers to seeking help for pelvic floor symptoms for ALL women. She has continued to work clinically throughout her academic career, treating both musculoskeletal and pelvic health patients at Ashbourne Physiotherapy and Sports Injuries centre, where she sees both private patients and NHS referrals.
She is the current Vice-chair of the Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy group (a professional network for physiotherapist in pelvic health). Her passion for sport and exercise which began at university, competing for Scotland as a lightweight rower and sculler continues but recently, she has moved on land and her bike where she competes regularly in veteran time trials.

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