My journey as a physio and martial artist started in the early 1980’s whilst studying to be an engineer! A hobby in Kung Fu soon became more than a young man’s passing interest and committed training led to a desire to understand more about the human body, biomechanics, physiology and kinematics. This coupled with a desire to live a life aligned with my faith values and provide service and assistance to others led to a change of focus and study to physiotherapy.

I graduated in physiotherapy from Cumberland College of Health Sciences, Lidcombe in 1989 and commenced my physio career at The Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick, (a large and highly regarded teaching hospital). I soon found my niche area to be adult musculoskeletal physiotherapy and developed my clinical skills here.

I eventually became a physiotherapy educator in adult musculoskeletal physiotherapy and over 30 years trained and mentored over 1,000 student physiotherapists from most of the key university physiotherapy schools in NSW (University of Sydney, Charles Sturt University, Newcastle University, Macquarie University, Australian Catholic University, University of Technology Sydney and Griffith University).

Being an educator led me to become involved as a pre-registration examiner for the assessment of overseas trained physiotherapists with ACOP/APC for 15 years.