Andy Franklyn-Miller

Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller completed his medical training at Imperial College, London in 1998 before joining the Royal Navy and serving with the Royal Marines. He specialized in Sports Medicine and trained in the UK and Australia as the Royal Navy’s Consultant in Sport And Exercise Medicine. His final post before leaving the Military was as Head of Research and Director of the Centre for Human Performance, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court.

Dr Franklyn-Miller has worked as Team doctor to British Olympic Rowing, England Rugby, Melbourne Storm Rugby League and the New Zealand Black Ferns and is currently Chief Medical Officer for GB and England Hockey.  He has appeared on the BBC Breakfast sofa and Radio 5 live on numerous occasions discussing athlete preparation, injury prevention and injuries to leading athletes and a regular contributor to the BJSM podcast program.

As Associate Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and author of Clinical Sports Anatomy, and contributing author to the IOC Handbook of Sports Injuries and over 25 per reviewed publications on running re-education, groin pain, fascial injury, injury prevention and sports medicine anatomy.

Andy currently is Director of SSC Sports Medicine, Dublin. Current research interests include: the biomechanics of groin pain, the expedited return to sport following groin injury, ACL rehabilitation biomechanics and exertional lower limb pain and Running re-education and lower limb biomechanics.