Clinic Director

Richard Lanigan DC.BSc (Chiro) MSc( Health Promotion). Born in North London 1957. Educated in Ireland. Originally trained as a PE teacher. Moved to Denmark 1979 and a serious knee injury got him interested 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 owned Denmarks premier fitness centre. "Sweat Shop". Richard travelled all over the world to find how best to prepare elite athletes. this aproach is normal in 2009, however it was very revolutionary in 1984,when stretching was limited to putting on your socks. Richard developed rehabilitation and fitness programmes for many of Denmark’s top athletes including Kirsten Larsten and Ib Frederickson, all England singles badminton champions in late 80s. "Team Denmark" hired him and his facilities to help prepare many of Denmarks 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 main teaching (Rigs) Hospital on their rehab facility in 1984. In the same year he started working with Denmarks leading chiropractor; Ole Wessung DC, who demonstrated the effectiveness of Chiropractic to Richard, so impressed was Richard that in 1990 he moved back to England to study chiropractic at Anglo European College of Chiropractic and was student president for two years between 1993-1995.

Richard was awarded a fellowship by the College of Chiropractors in 2008, after completing his Masters in Health Promotion, however in January 2009 Richard chose to stop using the title chiropractor in the UK because the British regulatory body for chiropractic (The GCC) has not maintained international standards of chiropractic education, Richard has another clinic in Dublin.

Kingstonians won FA Trophy twice with Richards help.

Richard no longer has the time to work with sports teams, because of family commitments. He has four children Eloise aged 3, Molly and Isabelle aged five and the eldest Frederik aged twenty one is pursuing a career as a professional 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. None of Richards children have ever taken any medicine, they eat healthy food, take lots of exercise and have their spines checked every month,

Up to 2004, Richard regularly went to Cuba to do voluntary work in their 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 of the Poli Clinic in Nueva Gerona,  "The best medicine is not the cure but the prevention..