Physiotherapy clinician trusted by Hong Kong and Singapore National Sports Teams
Megan is a registered physiotherapist (Hong Kong, Singapore). Most of her career spanned for sports injury management and prevention, also enhancing performance to elite athletes. The athletes she supported are the delegates and medalists from the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, South East Asian Games, East Asian Games, to name but a few.
she had clinical and sideline experiences in combat sports (fencing, karate, pencak silat) racquet (table tennis, badminton, squash) and aesthetic sports (gymnastics and artistic swimming).
With her passion in road cycling, she is trained in bike fitting and certified by PhysioSports Brighton and ISCO Gebiomized.
Her another clinical interest would be sports injuries to the head and neck. She was one of the pioneer physiotherapist in the multidisciplinary dizziness clinic at Changi General Hospital, working alongside with neurologists and otolaryngologists. Together with her clinical portfolio in sports medicine, she saw athletes with persistent post concussion syndrome.
Other than her work supporting high performing athletes, she is also a clinical instructor to physiotherapy students from Nanyang Polytechnic.
She approaches sports injuries in a holistic way and she integrates manual therapy, specific therapeutic exercises, dry needling and a careful selection of electrophysical therapy. She is a clinical pilates practitioner by Dance Medicine Australia. Currently she is providing consultation to athletes at various levels and staff from multi-national corporations.
Since 2015, she has written about sports and physiotherapy topics related to current affairs in Traditional Chinese. Her writings can be found in The Stand News, Hong Kong InMedia, The News Lens(Hong Kong and Taiwan), as well as The Straits Times and The Hong Kong Economic Journal.
She published her first book in traditional Chinese Physiotherapist’s anecdotes from the sideline (Arcadia Press Hong Kong, 2021), a series of sports injury and illness stories of weekend warriors to professional athletes. In 2023 she published her second book May the force be with you – Users’ manual to physiotherapy, sharing the scientific evidence of physiotherapy modalities to the general public.
from blogger to author
She has a Master in Physiotherapy (Sports) from The University of Queensland and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Physiotherapy from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Megan lives in Singapore with her husband. Other than clinical work, she can mostly be found on the roads in spandex with her Lynskey road bike, looking for the best flat white or in Singlish, kopi-c-kosong.