I do not keep a list of practitioners as such since each person that attends Spineworks training is already a therapist in his or her own right.

I do not accredit or regulate the practice of Spineworks in any way. Once a course attendee leaves my training room I have no control over what they do. Each therapist will blend the techniques and ideas they learn from Spineworks with their other modes of work.

Experienced therapists will attend many courses and workshops during their career and will build up a toolbox based on their experience, their training and their inclinations. When they see a client they will use that knowledge and experience combined with assessment to give a unique treatment.

Every single person on earth is unique, so when you get two unique individuals together in a room to share healing space and time it is not really surprising that the session and treatment will be unique. In fact it would be surprising if it were not!

Regulation, in its right place, can be useful, but regulation is based on paper qualifications and proof of training. Treatment is based on two people in a room, one seeking healing and the other giving it.

So I cannot say what your personal Spineworks treatment will be like. A treatment from Margaret will be different from a treatment from Gerald. And the treatments will be different on different days. Margaret’s treatments to Susan will be different from her treatments to Janice. It would, in my opinion, be more strange were that not the case.

In truth, this also applies to every therapy system. With a wide choice of training schools, teachers, and options within a course, there will be variance in the emphasis and even on some of the specifics taught. This is complicated further by the number of examining bodies and regulating authorities competing for attention and members.

For example, there are many schools of Shiatsu, each with its own emphasis There are many schools of remedial and sports massage, again each with different ideas within the same framework. From the students of such institutions you will receive differing treatments, some more so than others. A treatment from an Osteomyologist can be as different as Chiropractic and Reiki.

Indeed, even from within a single school there will be differences. In my own first training in Shiatsu some students preferred the Traditional Chinese Medicine approach while others used the five elements system. Some were quite physical in their treatment while others were more energy-conscious.

So when you attend for a treatment it may be more Spineworks than sports massage, more Cranio-Sacral than Spineworks, more Spineworks than massage. This will depend very much on the clear communication between you and the therapist you have chosen. And this will also apply to the mainstream treatments such as Physiotherapy, Osteopathy and Chiropractic.

And do feel free to call or e-mail me even if I live nowhere near you. I offer two hour sessions to those coming from a distance and I do have some clients who travel to Warwick from London and I also offer treatments in London. Spineworks is a remedial system so you will not be attending regular sessions for many months - unless you choose to.