After a few years of training and seeing clients – Julian became a founding member of the Airport Health Club’s Pain and Performance Clinic. In this setting he treated a large population of health and fitness oriented clients, gave talks on various chronic pain conditions, and taught classes on movement and self-exploration of the causes of pain.

Julian’s passion for education and root cause analysis is true of most engineers – engineering is a lifelong educational and learning process. These concepts should also be true of physical therapy. However, due to limitations in our medical system and the lack of an effective incentive structure for physical therapists – patients are often left slogging through 8 weeks of PT where the therapist is instructed to work on a specific area (which often is the area of pain, not the root cause), with cookie cutter at home exercise sheets.

When the therapist and client both understand root cause, how it happened, why it causes pain, and how to treat it – recovery is surprisingly rapid. On average most clients have complete resolution of their issue in 4-5 treatments, as well as the tools and knowledge to address other potential problems should they arise.

That being said, every person is different. The 20 year old athlete, with a high level of body awareness and control might need a single treatment – whereas the 80 year old mostly sedentary individual will need 7-8, or even ongoing treatment and management. Sometimes pain is the result of multiple different causes – and each cause needs to be addressed for complete resolution.