Sports therapist Sarah Linehan is going places with her expanding business.
Sarah has seen the Port St Mary Sports Injuries and Rehabilitation Clinic go from strength to strength.
Now the ambitious 26-year-old is opening a second clinic to run in tandem with the one in the south of theisland.
It is in Douglas in space at the Carrefour gym in the centre of town and business starts there from next Monday (July 8).
Sarah started out in business in Port St Mary three and a half years ago, in January 2010.
She said: ‘It’s a sports injury clinic but we deal with any muscular, skeletal injury.’
She said postural problems are common with people who hunch over their office desks at work.
Sarah, whose parents Mary and Jerry live in the island, completed a degree in sports science and then a Masters in sports therapy in London.
She gained useful experience in London working as part of a team of people with members of the famous London Irish rugby team.
‘It was the team I supported as a kid so I was really star struck,’ Sarah told Business News. ‘We used to live in a house backing on to their ground in Sunbury.’
‘They play in Reading now but they still have their training ground in Sunbury. Some of the players are with the British Lions.
‘I managed to build up my strength pretty quickly.’
The business in Port St Mary has grown and grown.
‘I work between 50 and 60 hour weeks so it’s been going really well,’ said Sarah, who still finds time for leisure interests including running and playing netball for Ballasalla.
She has a partner called Chris who is a buyer for Dandara.
Sarah moved to the island when she was five with her family.
She is setting up a second venue on top of the Port St Mary operation because she says there is a lot of opportunity in Douglas.
She is going in to Carrefour gym next door to Marks and Spencer, above Abode.
She will be renting a therapy room. She plans to split her time between Douglas and Port St Mary.
She has taken on another therapist, Sam Brennan and he plays rugby for Vagabonds in his spare time.
Sarah said she has clients who telephone her in pain mainly with back and neck problems.
Her clients have been all ages and they have also included an actor who needed some therapy while filming in the island.
‘It’s all going really well and I have a loyal customer base.’
