Join physiotherapist and artist-athlete care specialist Liz Bayley for the March Circus Smart Speaker Series lecture covering all things foot and ankle from preventative measures to complex cases of injury and rehabilitation.

She will look at hypermobility, common ankle injuries and differentials that mustn't be missed, and then look at how rehabilitation is so important in these groups. Liz Bayley is sure to convince you that it's never just a sprain...

This talk will answer the following questions:

How to know when to refer onwards in more complex cases

How to strengthen the feet in hypermobile performers

Can't make it live? ** RECORDING AVAILABLE ** for one week afterwards

Liz is a specialist dance physio with ‘Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance’ in London and was the head physio on Disney’s ‘The Lion King’, from 2021-2024 in London’s West End. Outside of dance, she has worked with Middlesbrough Football club, players from the UAE Pro League, and the National Basketball Association in the USA. Her special interests are the foot and ankle, injury reduction, stretching and flexibility, hypermobility, and return-to-sport/dance rehabilitation. She teaches international courses on the foot and ankle, and dance specific physiotherapy. In January 2025, she was a speaker at Sports Kongres in Copenhagen, talking about hypermobility and injury prevention in dancers. She is a visiting lecturer for Hertfordshire University, teaching on the Lower Quadrant Module.

Liz has worked in private sports injury clinics, falls prevention services, and is a qualified DMA Clinical Pilates instructor. She has written articles on dance injury prevention for 'The Stage' and has been a guest with many different podcasts and conferences, talking about her work with performers, and feet! 2023 marked her third consecutive year of speaking for ‘Therapy Live’ with Physio Matters. She wrote the section on ‘Posterior Ankle Impingement’ for the new edition of ‘Clinical Sports Medicine’, which will be released in 2026. Liz also visits dance companies and schools as a consultant physio, seeing their more complex foot and ankle injuries, having worked with Elmhurst and the English National Ballet in this capacity. She works with professional dancers in London, in shows such as ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake’, and ‘Back to the Future’. She manages injuries in dancers around the world via telehealth, including European Ballet companies and world champion Irish Dancers, returning them to competition level.

Former professional dancer (Moulin Rouge) turned specialist dance physiotherapist

Worked in the West End of London in theatres with pro performers for over 15 years

Author of the Posterior Ankle Impingement section of the new edition of 'Clinical Sports Medicine' out in 2026

The Foot and Ankle in Circus Performers