New Patient Orientation video

Simon King

Simon King has been a healthcare professional for over 35 years.

He grew up in Auckland, NZ and had his first chiropractic treatment after falling off a chair at the age of 6. That early treatment seemed to end his prior need for weekly blood tests that were searching for the origin of a “leukaemic like” condition and ironically, low muscle tone.

In his teens he took up bike racing and represented NZ at the age of 17, competing in road and track events in New Zealand and Australia, including the Empire Games in 1980.

He studied chiropractic at the RMIT (then PIT) in Melbourne, being part of the first-ever government-funded chiropractic course. After 5 years of full-time study he practiced for 2 years on the Gold Coast in Australia before taking up a teaching post at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth, England, and then moved back into practice in Retford, Nottinghamshire and Grantham, Lincolnshire.

As his practice developed, he became fascinated by the fact that certain patients responded to treatment easily while others did not and the difference could not be explained by current medical paradigm, one that treated conditions instead of patients.
 

He developed a paradigm and system of analysis which concentrated on finding out why patients had lost the ability to heal. In particular, what was interfering with the normal function of their nervous system that made them weakened and therefore vulnerable to injury and illness. This paradigm he called Afferentology, the study of sensory input which he has taught to thousands of health professionals and continues to use in his practice to help over 30,000 patients.