Based in Toulouse, everything brings together the Aveyronnaises Marie Cayla and Ophélie Rols
Same high school in Rodez, studies of osteopathy for both and today same profession within the same Toulouse office: Marie Cayla and Ophélie Rols, friends and colleagues.
They could have met at the Monteil high school in Rodez, where they were both boarders, even if the first, Marie Cayla, is two years older than the second, Ophélie Rols. “We must have met on the girls’ floor,” notes the latter. “However, we had copies in common”, supports Marie.
And they finally found themselves in Marie’s osteopathy practice, located in Toulouse in the Minimes district. The latter, born in Rodez in 1995, was a schoolgirl in Pont-de-Salars where her parents lived, before Saint-Amans college and therefore boarding school in Monteil – enrolled in the handball section – where she prepares for physio school before finally choosing to join the Osteopathic College of Bordeaux (COB) from which she graduated in 2020.
Ophélie is from Saint-Marcel, near Conques where she is a pupil at the municipal school. “There were four of us in CM2,” she smiles. She continued at the Kervallon de Marcillac college and therefore in Monteil where she obtained her baccalaureate S in 2015. “I wanted to work in health,” she says. Being a physio but I haven’t finished my first year of medicine. So, like her friend Marie, she changed paths and decided to enroll at the Toulouse Institute of Osteopathy (ITO) based in Labège, which left, diploma in hand, in 2022.
Before opening her practice in Toulouse, Marie Cayla collaborated with Marie Clee in Rodez. A collaboration that she continues today in Onet-le-Château on Fridays and Saturdays. “I was also doing replacements in Toulouse in two other firms, she says. I decided to settle in June 2021. But it’s not easy to get known. The start was a bit long. Fortunately, there are sites like Doctolib. And word of mouth works well.”
A chance meeting
It was precisely in Mrs. Clee’s office that Marie Cayla first heard of Ophélie Rols. “I had Ophélie’s brother, Julien, in consultation. He told me that his sister had osteoarthritis. I called him and offered to do my collaboration, on Fridays and Saturdays”, says Marie. “I graduated two days ago!” smiles Ophélie, who is delighted with this operation. “Getting started on your own, at first, is complicated. You have to manage the practice, all the appointments… Most young people who start with collaborations or replacements,” she explains.
“It gave me confidence to work with an Aveyronnaise, underlines Marie Cayla. We have the same language, the same memories, a lot of things in common.”
As for Marie, she plans to temporarily stop her collaboration as soon as her Toulouse office “turns well” while Ophélie wishes to continue at this pace while waiting to settle on her own. She is also involved in her former school, in Labège, “as a clinical instructor to supervise students”.
Both say they are delighted with their life in Toulouse, professionally – they continue to train – as much as personally. “I am 10 minutes from the office by bike”, rejoices Marie who shares her life with Clément Poirier, Aveyronnais like her and lawyer in the Pink City (read L’Aveyronnais of November 13, 2022). “I met him at the party in Curan, where my family’s farm is.”
Ophélie and her companion Loïck Montagne – he originally from Aveyron (!) – living in Ramonville-Saint-Agne, near Toulouse. “He played football at Druelle FC. We saw each other for the first time in Saint-Cyprien at the edge of the stadium,” she says.
Both are athletic – running and even ballroom dancing for Ophélie. But Marie is going to have to slow down since she is going to have cruciate ligament surgery next February. And it is, of course, Ophélie who will replace her in the cabinet. “She’s my saviour!” Marie exclaims.
Sisters and best friends! A shocking duo.