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Meet the Principal Chiropractor.
Richard Lanigan DC. MSc. Health
Promotion.
Fellow
of the College of Chiropractors
Former
Elected Member of General Chiropractic Council.
Member
of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
 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
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".
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, the sucess of these methods brought
sucess. 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 Ole
Wessung DC, who introduced him to the wonders of Chiropractic;
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, he sees no difference
in the chiropractic care a 28 year old man 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.
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.
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