John worked as a Chief Inspector for the RSPCA until a near fatal road traffic accident in 1993 curtailed his career in animal welfare. There followed many years of rehabilitation before John undertook nearly 3 years of Shiatsu training. Shiatsu is Japanese for "finger pressure" and is a form of acupressure and massage using TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) principles. This interest in TCM led John to enroll at the University of Lincoln to study Acupuncture for three years, where he gained a first-class BSc Honours degree in Acupuncture. John completed nearly 1000 hours of practical Acupuncture with patients whilst studying at the university. During the last year of the course, John was assigned to a Doctor's surgery in Howden, where he treated patients referred to him by the doctors, using Acupuncture for a wide range of conditions. This was a challenging assignment as most of the patients had been ill for a long time and had extremely complex problems. During the three years at university, John studied the principles of Chinese medicine and practice of Chinese Acupuncture, the management of the clinical conditions, as well as the orthodox disciplines of anatomy, physiology, pathology and psychology.
