Gayle Cotton – Founder
After qualifying in Sports Therapy at the University of Hertfordshire, Gayle built an extensive career working with professional sports teams including Rotherham United Football Club, Rotherham Titans RFC and the Sheffield Steelers, alongside 14 years lecturing and mentoring the next generation of Sports Therapists. Her reputation for exceptional clinical reasoning and hands-on treatment has earned the trust of thousands of clients throughout her career.
Her passion has always centred around understanding how the body moves. Rather than simply treating pain, Gayle became renowned for identifying the underlying causes of injury and dysfunction, using her extensive knowledge of movement patterns and compensation to help clients achieve long-lasting results.
As one of the UK’s most advanced practitioners of Be Activated® Neuromuscular Activation, Gayle has spent many years mentoring practitioners across the country, helping develop their clinical reasoning and sharing her expertise in this innovative treatment approach. She has also been part of the Winback Academy teaching team, educating healthcare professionals in the use of TECAR therapy for both musculoskeletal rehabilitation and physiotherapy aesthetics.
In recent years, Gayle has gradually stepped back from the day-to-day running of Kinetic Clinics, proudly handing the reins to her daughter, Jess, after years of working closely together to ensure the clinic’s values, reputation and exceptional standard of care continue for future generations. Watching Jess take Kinetic Clinics forward has been one of Gayle’s proudest achievements.
Although officially enjoying retirement, Gayle certainly hasn’t slowed down. These days she divides her time between travelling with her husband, discovering beautiful golf courses around the world, and spending as much time as possible on the fairways enjoying the game she loves.
Golf has become the perfect way to combine Gayle’s lifelong passion for movement with her clinical expertise. As a Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Certified Medical Practitioner, she offers one-to-one golf movement assessments, using decades of experience in movement analysis, compensation patterns and Be Activated® to help golfers improve their mobility, optimise their swing mechanics, reduce injury risk and ultimately enjoy their golf even more. Whether you’re a weekend golfer or a seasoned competitor, Gayle loves helping players unlock movement limitations that may be holding them back.
Gayle also continues to offer Winback TECAR Therapy Facials, another area she thoroughly enjoys. These appointments give her the opportunity to stay connected with many of the wonderful clients she has looked after throughout the years. One of the greatest joys of her semi-retirement is still welcoming familiar faces back into the clinic, catching up on their lives and continuing to play a small part in their wellbeing.
Whilst you may not see Gayle in the clinic every day anymore, her knowledge, guidance and passion remain at the heart of Kinetic Clinics. Her influence continues through the team she has mentored, the standards she established and the values that remain the foundation of everything the clinic does today.