Bridgeham Clinic: A broken to brilliant story

They thrive on taking the broken and making them brilliant. And the story couldn’t be more personal for husband-and-wife owners Trevor and Jo Strutt.

“Everything changed when some stage scenery fell on my head and devastated my professional dancing career”, explains Jo, “The prognosis was terrible. I was in pain – both physically and mentally - but I was determined not to have surgery or to rely on painkillers for the rest of my life. I wanted to find a different way to be well again.”

It was at that point that a friend advised Jo to seek out Trevor to see if he could help.

This was before they were married. Jo had been a dancer on cruise ships, at Royal Variety Performances and in West End shows while Trevor had honed his skills in massage therapy and osteopathy alongside his dad, who started the Bridgeham business from their Smallfield family home in 1993.

Faced with a lifetime of pain and disability, where even driving would be a challenge, Trevor’s approach was to prove instrumental in Jo’s return to full, pain-free health. Out of this a new idea was born that would be almost unique to patient recovery and rehabilitation – Bridgeham’s “Broken to Brilliant®” ethos.

“We saw an opportunity to combine pain relief with teaching people to move better,” says Trevor, “In that way, we can help people avoid repeating bad movement habits that can result in them being trapped in a never-ending pain-treatment cycle.”