The Story
Three years
in a wheelchair.
Gone in five minutes.
I played rugby at international level. Loughborough scholarship. Second year — I blew my knee out. ACL reconstruction with the best surgeon in the country. He said I'd be back in a year.
I wasn't. The pain was a thousand times worse after surgery. I couldn't bend my knee, straighten it or put weight through it. Two years on morphine. Couldn't sleep. Tried everything — medication, physio, injections, rehabilitation, alternative therapists. Nothing moved.
Eighteen months later the surgeon ordered an MRI. It came back perfect. I asked why I was still in agony. He said he didn't know.
I said no to more surgery. Because bone, ligament, muscle — everything heals in 8 weeks. I was way past that. The MRI was perfect. This had to be something else.
So I studied. Eight degrees across different specialisms — just to fix myself. Over 80% of what I learned treated symptoms, not causes. Then I found it.
The pain was neurological. My brain had experienced the trauma of surgery and built a protective mechanism to prevent it happening again. But it was faulty — because I was never going to have that surgery again. My nervous system didn't know that. It kept firing. Keeping me in agony. The moment I found and removed that faulty protective mechanism — the pain was gone in under five minutes.
That experience gave me something no textbook or clinic could — I know exactly what it costs to perform below your level. And I know exactly what it feels like to get it back.
That is why when I work with someone — I don't stop until they are fully optimised. Maximum output. No compensations. No limitations. Body working exactly as it was built to.