Hi, I'm Lou
A Brighton based biomechanics coach with over 8 years experience of working with human bodies, specialising in foot, knee and hip pain.
Discover My Story
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I know what it feels like to be in pain and feel like nobody is listening. Months after my hip replacement, I was experiencing significant groin pain and not getting any answers. It was only through my own research and a growing understanding of how the body works that I started to understand why it was happening — and what needed to change.
I know what it feels like to have tried everything — to have been to appointment after appointment, followed every piece of advice, done everything you were told — and still be no further forward. To reach a point where you wonder if this is just how things are going to be from now on.
I’ve been there. And it’s the reason I do what I do today.
In 2017 I had a hip replacement. Before that, I’d spent years managing pain that was gradually taking more and more away from me. The things I loved. The way I moved. The feeling of being free in my own body. By the time I went into surgery, I wasn’t thinking about what I’d be able to do afterwards. I just needed it to stop.
​What happened after my surgery changed everything — and not just physically. As I went through my own rehabilitation, I started to understand how the body works, how movement patterns change over years of pain, and what it actually takes to restore them. I realised there was a gap. People were coming out of surgery or living with persistent pain and not getting the whole-picture support they needed to truly recover. I knew I could help with that. So I retrained.
THE AiM METHOD & Gait Happens..
That decision led me to Gary Ward’s Anatomy in Motion method — AiM — which looks at the whole body, finds what’s missing in the movement system, and puts it back. It led me to training with Gait Happens in the US, who are leaders in foot health and movement. Most importantly it led me to building a practice in Brighton around the clients who needed this kind of approach most — the ones who had been everywhere else and were running out of options.
Eight years later, I work with people every day who feel the way I used to feel. Frustrated, overlooked - wondering if anyone is ever going to actually look at the whole picture and I get to show them that there is another way.
As for me — post hip replacement, I am pain free. I can do everything I want to do without my hip holding me back. My movement is better than it’s ever been. My strength and mobility have improved beyond what I expected. I am genuinely grateful for the journey my hip replacement took me on, because without it, I wouldn’t be doing this work — and I wouldn’t be able to say from personal experience that the body, when given what it needs, responds in ways that can genuinely surprise you.
If you’ve tried everything and feel like you’re running out of options, you’re in the right place. I understand that feeling better than most I know that it doesn’t have to be the end of the road.
