Rhona Synnott
Senior Physiotherapist
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy | Sports Injuries | Orthopaedics | TMJ
Rhona has had a lifelong love for sport and movement, so a career that was active, meaningful, and helped others was always the natural fit. “It’s turned out to be even more rewarding than I ever imagined.”
She graduated in 1999 from King’s College London and went on to specialise in musculoskeletal physiotherapy in 2002. Since then, Rhona has built experience across an impressive range of settings – large teaching hospitals including The Mater, Chelsea and Westminster, and St Mary’s Paddington, private hospitals in both Dublin (Blackrock Clinic) and London, as well as sports clinics, gyms, dance colleges and hydrotherapy pools. That breadth has given her the skills to manage everything from acute injury right through to end-stage rehab and safe return to play.
Rhona returned to Dublin in 2020 and joined the BodyMed team with a particular interest in sports injuries – running, football, basketball and skiing among them. With 20 years’ experience in orthopaedics, she’s equally at home managing post-operative recovery (ACL, hip and knee replacements, fractures) as she is with the conservative treatment of injuries, and she also brings skill and experience to treating jaw pain (TMJ / Temporomandibular Disorders).
What Rhona loves most is helping patients reach their own goals, whatever that goal looks like, whether it’s running a marathon, getting back to a favourite sport, or simply being able to play comfortably with the grandkids. Having navigated her own share of injuries, she understands first-hand how important proper rehab is, and she brings genuine enthusiasm to every patient’s journey back to full fitness.
Outside the clinic, Rhona is usually out running, playing tennis, cycling, sea swimming, or at the gym or a pilates class. And this year she smashed a new personal best at the Dublin Marathon. A fun fact not many people know: she speaks Greek.
We’re lucky to have Rhona on the team. She brings passion, patience, and positivity to every session.