Paul Kirwan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1994 with an honors degree in Physiotherapy, BSc(Physio). Following graduation, he started working in the Meath Hospital, now part of Tallaght Hospital, AMNCH. From 1994 to 1995, he worked for one year as Manager of the Physiotherapy Department in Khalifa School for Children with Special Needs in Kuwait, the first of it's kind in this country at the time. He then worked in Manchester's Withington Hosptial.

Following this he moved to Illinois, USA. From 1995 to 1997 he worked in St Mary's Hospital, just outside Chicago, in their Outpatient Rehabilitation Department, and from 1997 to 1998 in Carle Foundation Hospital in Champagne Urbana. Over this 3 year period, he gained an enormous ammount of experience treating patients with a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions from sporting to work related injuries and surgical to nonsurgical patients.

From 1998 to 2002, he was employed as a Senior Physiotherapist in the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch, CINN, the Midwest's busiest spinal specialty centre. While here, Paul developed his expertise in the evaluation and teatment of all kinds of spinal injuries and disorders, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working alongside some of the most innovative spinal surgeons in the USA. At the time CINN treated more spinal conditions per year than any other clinic in the US, and is to this day, an innovator in the treatment of spinal pain. While here Paul established and ran the CINN work reconditioning program, with an extremely succesful rate of returning injured workers to their pre-injury status. During his time at CINN Paul treated many professional and collegiate athletes, from sports as varied as Basketball, Football, and Ice Hockey to Triathletes and recreational Athletes, and injured members of the Chicago Police and Fire Department.

From 1999 to 2002, Paul also worked part-time at Swedish Covenant Hospital's Galter Life Centre, a first of it's kind fitness facility attached to a community hospital, which had physiotherapy on site as part of the medical team attached to the fitness facility. While here Paul continued to see and treat a host of sports related injuries and general musculoskeletal disorders.

In 1999 Paul obtained the qualification of Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, CSCS, from the National Strength and Conditioning Association, USA, this qualification further added to his wealth of knowledge and expertise in the field of exercise science and prescription.

Paul returned to Dublin in 2002 and took up the positon of Senior Phsyiotherapist at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, evaluating and treating patients with rheumtological and musculoskeletal conditions as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in a busy general hospital in northwest Dublin, a position he still holds.

In 2007, he commenced the Masters of Science in Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy at National University of Ireland, Galway, which he is scheduled to complete in summer 2009.

In 2009, he established and opened The Physio Clinic, to offer the highest quality and standard of physiotherapy treatment.