Emma is a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist who works at elite sport level and currently consults for Chelsea Women’s Football Club, Arsenal WFC, Manchester City WFC, Aston Villa WFC, London City Lionesses and the USWNT. She is passionate about supporting players with PFD and those who are pregnant and postpartum. She co-authored the first ‘Returning to Running Postpartum Guidelines’ and has gone on to publish further publications around pregnancy and postpartum, including the FIFA Stay in Play and Step into Play frameworks and decision aids. She is part of the expert consensus group for the International Olympic Committee Sports Participation in preconception, pregnancy and postpartum statement. She has spoken at many conferences including ECA, The Female Athlete Conference in Boston, Sports and Exercise in medicine, POGP, Isokinetic and Growing through the Game in Oslo. She is a female health expert for the FIFA Female Health Project and part of the FIFA Perinatal Research team, that includes Prof Margie Davenport, Dr Sinead Dufour and Ivi Casagrande. She is passionate about evolving research for the female perinatal athlete and PFD in elite athletes. Her passion to bust myths and stigma around pelvic health and encourage women of all ages to be active can be heard on many podcasts, including Happy Mum Happy Baby and The Food Medic. She has written her first book ‘Why did no one tell me? How to protect, heal and nurture your body through motherhood’ published by Ebury Books.
