Daniel Turner · Chartered physiotherapist

A surgeon once told me I'd probably never run, play football or lift anything again. I had back surgery, and for six and a half months I couldn't walk.

I rebuilt myself using the same framework I use with patients now: get control first, build a framework you can repeat, then layer the performance on top.

Today I run, and I squat 115 kg. So when you're worried you won't get back to the thing you love, I know that space. I've been in it.

I've worked in musculoskeletal physiotherapy since 2011, much of it in professional sport. I led the medical team at a Premier League academy, working with players in and out of the first team, and I've been Head of Medical at a League One football club and two Championship rugby clubs.

I also spent three and a half years as a shoulder specialist.

In professional sport, the medic has to be the calm in the eye of the storm. That's where the name comes from: a vortex is movement, but it's also the still centre where the movement starts.

I left a secure job in professional football to build Vortex, because I believe everyone should have access to elite-level physio and performance. Not just the players at clubs who have it on tap.

That doesn't mean a life with no pain. I don't know anybody who has no pain. It means being able to move through life well, and keep doing the things you enjoy.

Most of the people I see aren't athletes. They're runners, gym-goers, weekend players, and people with a back or a shoulder that's been bothering them for months.