About Enda
Enda King PhD MSc combines his roles as a sports physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, researcher, and educator through his work with individual athletes and elite teams across a spectrum of sports and disciplines. Currently, he is Head Elite Performance and Development in Aspetar, Doha, Qatar and traveling internationally to work with athletes and professional clubs. He currently lives between Qatar and Ireland with his wife Michelle and their 3 children Eleanor, Ethan and Iarlaith.
Experience
Through his base at the renowned FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence Aspetar, Qatar, Enda combines his clinical and research work through the use of 3D biomechanics and high-level residential rehabilitation to optimise performance and efficient recovery after injury. He has worked with athletes and consulted for teams across a wide variety of disciplines including rugby, football, AFL, NBA, NFL, UFC, boxing, jockeys and GAA. His greatest areas of expertise lies within hip and groin related injury, as well as knee / ACL rehabilitation, and he is committed to performing innovative research to develop robust methods for injury prevention and rehabilitation in elite sport. Enda has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and regularly travels to speak at international conferences on Athletic Groin Pain, ACL Return To Play and Return To Performance After Injury. Enda also authored the hip and groin chapter in “Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation”.
Education
Enda completed his BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy degree in Trinity College, Dublin in 2005 then moved to Perth, Australia to undertake the renowned MSc Manipulative Therapy in Curtain University in 2009. Graduating with distinction Enda returned home and has focused his work in the Sports Surgery Clinic in Ireland around cutting edge methodology for hip and groin injury prevention and rehabilitation. In early 2019 he completed his PhD through the University of Roehampton in London exploring the influence of 3D Biomechanical analysis on outcomes after ACL reconstruction.
Academic Qualifications
PhD.
“Relationship of 3D Biomechanical Analysis with Outcomes after ACL Reconstruction”
University of Roehampton, London, UK
2019
MSc.
Manipulative Therapy
Curtin University, Perth, Australia
2010
BSc.
Physiotherapy
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2004
S&C.
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist NSCA
Accredited Strength and Conditioning Coach UKSCA