Meet the Principal Practitioner

Richard Lanigan DC.BSc (Chiro) MSc( Health Promotion).

Originally trained as a PE teacher. Moved to Denmark 1979 to play football and a serious knee injury got him interested in

in rehabilitation and fitness.

In 1984 he became fitness and rehab consultant to the Danish national badminton teams, handball teams and many club sides. And opened Denmarks first aerobic fitness centre. "Sweat Shop" and pioneered many of the principles that are the norm in fitness training today. Proper warm ups, stretching, weight training and nutrition

He travelled allover the world to find how best it was to prepare elite athletes. This aproach is normal in 2007 they were very unusual in 1984. Richard developed rehabilitation and fitness programmes for many of Denmark’s elite sportsmen including Kirsten Larsten and Ib Frederickson, former all England singles badminton champions in late 80s.

In 1984 "Team Denmark" hired him and his facilities to help prepare many of Denmarks elite athletes for the LA and Seoul Olympics. In 1990 he worked with Anya Anderson, Olympic gold medallist and voted worlds best female handball player at the Atlanta Olympics.

Richard advised Copenhagen’s Rigs Hospital on their rehab facility. In the same year he started working with Denmarks leading chiropractor; Ole Wessung DC, who demonstrated the effectiveness of Chiropractic to Richard; In 1990 he moved back to England to study chiropractic at Anglo European College of Chiropractic and was student president for for two years 1994-1996

He is still active in sport circles, in Richard's opinion there is no difference in the chiropractic care a 28 year old office worker needs and a 28 year old athlete. What is different is the intensity of training the athlete’s needs to perform at the highest level. Richard wants all his clients to perform optimally.In the late 90s he worked with Kingstonian football club when they won the FA Trophy twice and were the top non -league team in the country.

Young Children have ended Richard's involvement in elite sport. Richard has four children Eloise aged 18 months, Molly and Isabelle aged four and the eldest Frederik aged twenty one is pursuing a career as a tennis player. Frederik won the British Schools National championship in 2004 and 2005 playing for Cheam High school and represented Norway in the Davis Cup in 2006 & 2007.

In recent years Richard completed his masters in Health Promotion and has much experience working in the Cuban health service where Doctors are keen to incorporate drug free interventions (acupuncture and chiropractic) and prevention in their health care programmes. This philosophy is encapsulated in the Spanish slogan on the wall ofthe Poli Clinic in Nueva Gerona, Cuba.

"The best medicine is not the cure but the prevention"

The greatest compliment a patient

can give Richard is to bring their children in for a spinal check. IN 2007 Richard was the Chiropractic professions representitive on the UKs regulatory body the General Chiropractic Council.