Staff
The Helsinki Physiotherapy Clinic team - supporting you
Jukka Kangas
Head physiotherapist, Master Therapist
"The interaction of body and mind is an endless source of inspiration."
After 28 years in the field, Jukka Kangas, founder and head physiotherapist of Helsingin Fysioterapiaklinikka, is one of the leading experts in physiotherapy. Kangas also works internationally as part of elite athlete coaching teams, as a manual therapy teacher and as an ITC coach.
Suvi Kangas
Physiotherapist, Senior Therapist
"Solving musculoskeletal problems through physiotherapy and promoting health through nutritional counselling.
Suvi Kangas is a specialised physiotherapist in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, a nutrition counsellor and a student of nutrition therapy. The focus of Suvi's work is to meet the person who comes to the practice from his or her starting point. The reasons for seeking treatment and therefore the rehabilitation processes are individual.
Satu Palo
OMT physiotherapist, Music physiotherapist
"Physiotherapy for musicians."
Satu has over thirty years of experience working with clients with musculoskeletal problems. She graduated as a physiotherapist in 1988 and as an OMT physiotherapist in 1999.
Gradually, over the years, Satu's speciality has developed into pain conditions in the neck, head and upper limbs, thoracic and lower back pain and nerve tissue problems for a variety of clients.
In 2004, musicians entered Satu's life. She has found it inspiring, interesting, challenging and rewarding to dive into the body issues of musicians.
Kati Malinen
Fysioterapeutti, Therapist (PARENTAL LEAVE)
"It is important to understand how the problem occurs and how it affects the client's life.
Kati, who graduated as a physiotherapist in 2018, spent part of her physiotherapy training in Canada at university, where she found it particularly rewarding to study musculoskeletal injuries and movement analysis. She started her career working in orthopaedic and neurological rehabilitation. A keen interest in musculoskeletal problems led Kati to move from the hospital world to reception work.
Mirka "Suski" Kirjavainen
Physiotherapist, Senior Therapist
"The wisdom of your body guides me to find the causes of even long-term symptoms and pain through careful interviewing and examination.
Since 2014, I have been training in visceral manipulation and craniosacral therapy. These therapies have opened up a whole new world of body function and working with the body for me. The wisdom of your body guides me to discover, through careful interviewing and examination, the causes of even long-standing symptoms and pain conditions. I believe that most pain and discomfort can be relieved by treatments that support the body's ability to regenerate and heal itself, while helping the body to balance itself.
Terhi Talvinko
Physiotherapist, Therapist
"It is important to me that every client feels heard in my practice."
My career at HFTK began as a client seeking help for a long-standing lower limb problem. I was so impressed with the work of my current colleagues and the unique philosophy and approach of HFTK to find and treat the root cause of my condition that I wanted to get involved myself.