The Directors

The Sports Massage Association Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation and is managed by the following Board of Directors.

JOAN WATT Honorary President

I am a Chartered Physiotherapist with belief in Sports Massage and have gained extensive experience at major sporting events. These have included attending my first Commonwealth Games in 1970 and subsequently every one between 1982 and 2010. I am the Honorary Medical Advisor to Scottish Commonwealth Games.

PAUL MEDLICOTT Director & Chair

I qualified as a Sports Massage Practitioner in 2002, prior to this I worked in financial services for 28 years specialising in strategic planning and change management. I have run my own practice for 9 years but I am now focusing on broader industry issues through my work with the SMA, the General Council of Massage Therapies (GCMT) and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. I also work with LOCOG on a voluntary basis putting together the Sports Massage Practitioner contingent for 2012. I am particularly proud that Sports Massage as a profession will play a key role at the Games.

RODGER DAVIS Director and Vice Chair

I have spent many years in architecture and until 2002 I was MD of a London based construction company. I qualified as a Sports Massage Practitioner in 2004 and have been a director of the SMA since December 2005. I was elected Chairman of the Board in July 2009 and held that position until January 2013. In 2011 I qualified to practice the KMI version of Structural Integration and really enjoy using the additional skills in the the expanding scope of my bodywork practice.

GARY ARMER

Biography to follow.

PAULA CLAYTON

I worked in Premiership & Championship football for four years before moving to the English Institute of Sport/UK Athletics in Birmingham where I have been since the beginning of 2003. I travel extensively with the GB athletics team to international camps and competitions. During my time with EIS/UKA I have been part of the athletics medical team involved in both the Athens and Beijing Olympics and I have also been lucky enough to be selected for London 2012. In addition to Olympic Games I have also been directly involved in Commonwealth Games, World & European Championships.

NICK MOONEY

I graduated from the London School of Sports Massage in 2005. Since 2006 I have been a tutor at the NLSSM teaching BTEC Level 4 and 5 diploma courses in Sports and Remedial Massage Therapy. I base my clinical massage in Hertfordshire and also provide tutorial services to massage students. . I have been involved in events work as both a therapist and a supervisor. I will be representing the Sports Massage Association as Clinical Lead for Sports Massage the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games.

CHRIS SALVARY

I graduated from the LSSM in 1992 and worked in various club and clinical environments as well as developing my own private practice. I have also taught sports massage at private schools and on university degree programmes. I completed a Masters Degree in Complementary Therapy: Bodywork at the University of Westminster in 2003, for which my dissertation looked at how athletes with disabilities use sports massage for training and competition. It was eventually published by the ICSSPE in 2007.

NICK SILVERSTONE

Originally from an IT/property background, I qualified as a sports massage practitioner through the NLSSM in July 2007. Together with my wife Karen with whom I qualified at the same time, we started our own practice and have built a clinic room at our home. We have steadily built up a strong local business which has constantly increased its revenue year on year. In addition to this, I provide sports massage services for English Institute of Sport, the British Athletes Commission working with professional athletes, the Herts Sports Partnership (elite athlete support programme) and TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme).

Married with a 19 year daughter and 15 year old son, I am an avid sports fan, playing squash, poorly, several times a week and am a season ticket holder at Spurs.

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