Bridget qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2005 from the University of Birmingham, beginning her career within the NHS in Hertfordshire before joining Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London as a Senior Physiotherapist.

Driven by a lifelong passion for animals and performance, she went on to complete a Masters in Veterinary Physiotherapy at the Royal Veterinary College in 2011. Bridget then joined Anna Johnson & Associates, working with elite equine athletes while continuing her human physiotherapy work near Harley Street, London.

In 2015, Bridget relocated to Bath, UK, where she became a Physiotherapy Team Lead for Nuffield Health, the nation’s largest healthcare charity, while establishing her own Equine Physiotherapy practice dedicated to supporting top-level competition horses.

As an FEI Permitted Equine Therapist, Bridget has provided physiotherapy support at numerous international events worldwide, working both with her private clients, including world-leading event riders, and with the United States Equestrian Federation.

Today, Bridget is part of British Equestrian’s athlete support team, delivering equine physiotherapy for national squads at home and abroad, including the GB Para Dressage Team at the European Championships.

Her passion lies in optimising equestrian performance through a multidisciplinary, holistic approach that brings together expertise from across veterinary and human physiotherapy.

When she’s not supporting elite athletes, Bridget is happily occupied trying to keep her two young children away from ponies!

Erin Contino, MS, DVM, Dipl. ACVSMR, is an Associate Professor in equine sports medicine and rehabilitation at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, Colorado. She graduated from CSU with a Master's in clinical sciences in 2009 and a veterinary degree in 2010. She then completed a one-year internship at Pioneer Equine Hospital in California before returning to CSU for a three-year equine sports medicine and rehabilitation residency followed by a 1-year fellowship in equine musculoskeletal ultrasound. Dr. Contino became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2014. Her clinical and research interests include equine musculoskeletal imaging, diagnostic analgesia, lameness, and poor performance in equine athletes. She's actively involved in the leadership of ACVSMR and AAEP and, in her spare time, enjoys competing in 3-day eventing.

Sue Dyson qualified as a veterinarian from the University of Cambridge in 1980. After an internship at the University of Pennsylvania and a year in private equine practice in Pennsylvania, Sue returned to Great Britain to the Animal Health Trust, Newmarket. Sue ran a clinical referral service for lameness and poor performance, attracting clients from all over the United Kingdom, Ireland and continental Europe for 37 years. From 2019 she has worked as an independent consultant, combining her horsemanship skills with her veterinary experience, with the aim of maximising performance potential.

Sue’s key interests are improving the diagnosis of lameness and poor performance and maximising the opportunity for horses to fulfil their athletic potential at whatever level, taking a holistic approach to the horse, rider and tack combination, and improving approaches to diagnosis and management. She has been involved not only in providing clinical services, but also clinically relevant research and education. Sue is co-editor, with Mike Ross, of Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in the Horse and co-author of Clinical Radiology of the Horse and Equine Scintigraphy. With Sue Palmer she wrote Harmonious Horsemanship: Use of the Ridden Horse Ethogram to Optimise Potential, Partnership and Performance. She has published more than 430 papers in peer reviewed journals concerning lameness and diagnostic imaging and has lectured worldwide to veterinarians, paraprofessionals, coaches, riders and judges.

Sue is a former President of the British Equine Veterinary Association and is currently scientific advisor to the Saddle Research Trust and Moorcroft Rehabilitation Centre. Sue is also a rider, and has produced horses from novice to top national level in both eventing and show jumping. Sue holds the Instructors and Stable Managers Certificates of the British Horse Society (BHSI).

Sue has been awarded many international accolades for her work including induction into the University of Kentucky Equine Research Hall of Fame for outstanding contributions to research in equine veterinary science, Honorary Membership of the British Equine Veterinary Association and Societa Italiana Veterinari Per Equini, Italy, the American Association of Equine Practitioners Frank J. Milne Award and the Tierklinik Hochmoor Prize, Germany, for outstanding, creative and lasting work in equine veterinary medicine.

Christiana relocated from the USA to the UK in 2015. She graduated from the Virginia- Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 2000.

She has 20 years of extensive experience in equine sports medicine and managing the competition horse. Her primary interests include purchase exams, lameness, management and rehabilitation of soft tissue injuries, regenerative medicine, and sports medicine especially related to the three-day event horse.

Her practice in the USA was located in Middleburg, Virginia and Ocala, Florida, where she was the Team Veterinarian for the Canadian Eventing Team for 10 years through three World Equestrian Games and two Olympic Games. She has been Team veterinarian for the New Zealand Eventing Team since 2015. She served as Team veterinarian for both the New Zealand Eventing and Show jumping Teams at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina in 2018. She also serves as a Team Vet for USA Show jumping at occasional shows in the UK and Europe.

She is FEI qualified as both a permitted treating veterinarian and as a veterinary delegate for three-day eventing. She comes from a competitive running background in university and has completed 7 full Ironman Triathlons including the World Championships in Hawaii. She likes to spend her free time cycling, and most importantly spending time with her husband, Andre Buthe, and their son Luca.