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A physiotherapist who qualified at the CEERRF, specialised in sports physiotherapy and manual therapy, she works with elite athletes and teaches in a physiotherapy school. Living with endometriosis herself, in 2025 she designed a course on the condition for healthcare professionals.
2021
French State Diploma in Physiotherapy, CEERRF
3
Additional qualifications: sports physiotherapy, manual therapy, dry needling
7 years
Working with sports teams, from motorsport to national-level handball
Since 2022
Teaching sports physiotherapy in a physiotherapy school
The field first: motorcycling, artistic swimming, rugby, football, handball. Then teaching, and finally endometriosis — a subject she knows both as a clinician and as a patient, and which gave rise to the course she now co-teaches.
2017 to 2021 · Initial training
Centre européen d'enseignement en rééducation et réadaptation fonctionnelle, a French physiotherapy training institute.
2018 to 2022 · Field work
Moto 300 in Supercross and the Supersport championship, the artistic swimming squad at the CREPS in Toulouse, women's rugby in Fédérale 1 at Blagnac, National 3 football at Muret.
2022 to 2023 · Specialisation
Rounded out by La Clinique Du Coureur, shoulder management, the pelvic floor and sport, and FIFA medical training.
Since 2022 · Academic teaching
Sports physiotherapy classes at the CEERRF, then continuing education for strength and conditioning coaches from 2025.
Since 2022 · Clinical
Working with a women's handball club in Nationale 1 Élite and with the pôles espoirs youth development squads, then setting up her own practice within the same organisation in 2023.
Since 2025 · Teaching
A course for healthcare professionals, born of her experience both as a clinician and as a patient.
Lecturer at the CEERRF since 2022, on the sports physiotherapy classes of the initial training programme.
Instructor for strength and conditioning coaches in continuing education since 2025.
Physiotherapist for elite teams: motorsport, artistic swimming, rugby, football, Nationale 1 Élite handball.
Public communication: she writes about endometriosis and sports physiotherapy for the general public and for clinicians.
4,7/5 · 97 % of the 321 participants recommend this course (post-course questionnaire)
The on-site course on endometriosis, which she co-teaches with Méline Gomont and Antoine Couly. She brings to it what she herself describes as the perspective of a clinician who has known the long road to diagnosis and the dismissal of pain.
Discover the course
The same material as e-learning, built jointly by the three of them: pelvic floor rehabilitation, pain neuroscience and a biopsychosocial approach.
Discover the courseGreat course, the team is incredibly clear. You leave with tools you can apply in the clinic on Monday morning.
At last something concrete on EBP! No theoretical waffle, only validated tests and clear algorithms.
The structured assessment completely changed the way I triage my patients. No more doubts about red flags.
Claire Hirigoyen is a physiotherapist who qualified at the CEERRF in 2021 and holds diplomas in sports physiotherapy, manual therapy and dry needling. She practises in Val-d'Oise, works with elite athletes, teaches in a physiotherapy school and delivers training on endometriosis.
Endometriosis from A to Z, on-site and as e-learning, which she co-teaches with Méline Gomont and Antoine Couly. The programme and practical details are on each course page.
Because she has the condition herself. She describes going through what many patients go through — the long road to diagnosis and the dismissal of pain — and wanting to contribute to better care, which is the subject of our guide on the physiotherapist's role in endometriosis.
Yes, she has taught sports physiotherapy at the CEERRF since 2022, and since 2025 she has also been training strength and conditioning coaches in continuing education.
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