About Us

Ciara Shields graduated with a 1st class honours in physiotherapy from U.C.D in 2000.  After three and a half years of working in a Dublin academic teaching hospital, she travelled to Australia to undertake a Masters in manipulative physiotherapy in the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.  Since then she has worked in private practice, joining Iona Physiotherapy in 2005 and becoming a partner in 2006.  From 2005-2007 she was involved in teaching anatomy to undergraduate students in the Royal College Of Surgeons(RCSI.)  Since 2008 Ciara has lectured in orthopaedics and rheumatology to undergraduate students in RCSI.  She has also been involved in postgraduate teaching on the Neuromusculoskeletal Masters in physiotherapy degree in U.C.D, and on a course to newly graduated physiotherapists run by the ISCP. From 2006-2009, Ciara was treasurer to the special interest group -CPMT, which is a special interest group of chartered physiotherapists involved in the promotion and organisation of further education for musculoskeletal physiotherapists. She attended an international conference in Rotterdam in 2008 as part of her continued professional development.
 
Louise Keating graduated from UCD 1992 with a first class honours Bachelors of Physiotherapy. She subsequently worked in St. Vincent’s Hospital, the National Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Dublin before spending 4 years working in the US, working at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center and the Rehab Institute of Chicago. She decided to specialise in the field of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy in 1995. She received a Masters degree in Manipulative Physiotherapy Studies from the University of Queensland, Brisbane in 1999 and spent the following 15 months touring with Riverdance, as chief medical officer and physiotherapist. Upon returning to Ireland in 2001, she set up IONA Physiotherapy. She became interested in post-graduate teaching in 2001 and has guest lectured on MSc programmes in both Trinity College and UCD. She joined the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Physiotherapy as a part-time lecturer in 2003 and has been full-time since 2005. She has also taught post-graduate spinal courses to physiotherapists in the US and Ireland; in the latter case, on behalf of the Chartered Physiotherapists in Musculoskeletal Therapy, a clinical interest group of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP).