I was lucky to spend clinical time with a Japanese Trained Acupuncturist Helen Hays who showed me how effective gentle needling could be.

In 2005 I attended a course in Medical Acupuncture from visiting Chinese Professor Shouzhong Ren. I lived overseas in Laos PDR in 1999 where my wife was running a foreign aid project.

Review the published research work on the device here.Īfter graduating in 1995 moved to the Sunshine Coast where I worked in a number of Chiropractic clinics.

To train as a chiropractor I completed a Bachelor of Science in anatomy (UNSW) and a Master of Chiropractic (Macquarie University) between 1990-1995.ĭuring my training, I recognised a need and created the Fleximan cervical manikin for use by students of spinal manipulation. Since then, I have been evolved in manual therapy in various settings. In 1981 I began learning massage including Swedish, Remedial & Chinese Massage at the Naturecare College in Sydney.

Simple, highly nuanced to individual needs and effective as possible.Īfter school, I started out as a Hospital trained Nurse from 1979– 85. It is basically about providing some relief through manual therapy (mostly massage and mobilisation) and then educating you, the patient, how to stimulate healing and capacity building through movement, eating well and a positive mental attitude. It has taken me many years to develop the current evidence-based biopsychosocial and accepted clinically guidelined approach that I use today.

Sunshine island massage and acupuncture