Where Movement Meets Meaning
Helping People Move With Purpose
Specialist physiotherapist, speaker, and educator helping people rebuild strength, find resilience, and move with meaning.
(BIOGRAPHY)
Darren Finnegan is a Chartered Physiotherapist, speaker, educator, author, and co-founder of Pro Health Physiotherapy NE. His career was inspired by a personal turning point when his father suffered a stroke, sparking a mission to help people move well and live with purpose.
Since 2010, Darren Finnegan has worked across NHS and private practice in the UK and Ireland. He has supported elite athletes across basketball, MMA, rugby, Crossfit, triathlon, running and athletics, including athletes at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
He has travelled extensively with sports teams including the Great Britain Basketball team across Europe, Tropics Rugby 7s for world renowned rugby 7 competitions in Kenya, Dubai, and Hong Kong. This breadth of experience has shaped his expertise in injury recovery, performance, and movement for people at every level of performance.
Blending clinical skill with elite sport insight, Darren takes a person-first approach to physiotherapy and performance. He practises what he teaches, having completed ultra marathons, adventure races, and half marathons to test his own mental fitness.
These experiences inform his work and his writing on resilience and mental fitness. Darren's drive for health and wellbeing is rooted in personal experience.
After losing his father at eighteen, he turned to exercise as a way to process grief. That experience became the foundation for his mission: helping others build strength, purpose, and emotional balance through movement.
He now shares that philosophy through coaching, mentoring, and education. As an Associate Lecturer at Northumbria University, Darren supports the next generation of healthcare professionals in developing both technical and personal resilience.
From 2021 to 2024, he also chaired the North East Musculoskeletal Society, helping raise professional standards and create new opportunities for continued development across the region.
Practical insights on recovery, resilience, and living well through movement.