Christien Bird is the practice owner and specialises in women’s health and bladder dysfunction. Before starting up the clinic she worked as superintendent physiotherapist at the out-patients department at the Central Middlesex Hospital. Christien completed a Masters degree in clinical research methodology from King’s College.

She has been involved in dissemination of evidence based practice and development of clinical guidelines for acute low back pain working for the North Thames region. She has also coordinated a large clinical trial, funded by the NHS executive in conjunction with Brunel University looking at the effect of physiotherapy for acute low back pain. The research has been published in scientific medical journals.