Roger Kingston, DO

I spent my childhood in Uganda before going off to boarding school in England. At Giggleswick School I discovered a passion for rugby and fly-fishing and left with ambitions of becoming a professional fishing guide. But for a fortuitous meeting with a brilliant Osteopath in Oxford, David Ruddick, who helped me overcome a severe concussion my Osteopathic career might never have even started. I was amazed at how he was able to get rid of my neck pain, the headaches and sinus problems that had plagued me for years. I was inspired to become an Osteopath. After applying to several schools I found the European School of Osteopathy (ESO) best suited me. I was so fortunate at the time to be taught by some of the worlds’ best Osteopaths, Including Professor Peter Blagrave, Tom Dummer, Peter Armitage, Jitendra Vara and Susan Turner. The course was incredibly difficult with an enormous amount of information to learnt and physical skills to develop. I loved it and was fascinated by a whole system of medicine evolving in front of me. Osteopathy, whilst best known for treating acute and chronic spinal pain, also was equally applicable in treating newborn babies, pregnant women, enhancing performance in elite athletes, supporting the sick and and those recovering from surgery. In my final year of university I found that I had a particular talent for treating babies and young children and I was encouraged to develop my paediatric skills. My patient list soon became full with babies, children and their families. I still loved being able to treat anyone in the family. In my final year of university I found that I had a particular talent for treating babies and young children and I was encouraged to develop my paediatric skills. My patient list soon became full with babies, children and their families. I still loved being able to treat anyone in the family. After graduating in 1993 I went back home to Yorkshire and became an associate to Mark Wilcox in Wakefield. Here I was able to really develop as an osteopath treating literally anyone who walked in, it was a true baptism of fire. “Yorkshire is an amazing test bed of your skills because you have to get results quickly there or you’ll starve”. The babies still played a huge part of my life and I started volunteering at the Osteopathic Centre for Children (OCC) in London under the guidance of Susan Turner and Peter Armitage, spending many happy hours further refining my Paediatric and Cranial Osteopathy skills. I continued to attend advanced training courses in Cranial Osteopathy and other gentle approaches and was lucky to be taught by many brilliant practitioners, especially Chris Smith, Dr Alena Kobesova and Professor Pavel Kolar of the Prague School of Manual Medicine and Rehabilitation. More recently I have been studying the new breakthrough approach of Fascial Counterstrain with its developer Brian Tuckey. In 1995 I was ready to “go it alone” and opened my own practice in York. In the years that followed I developed a family Osteopathic practice that gained the respect of the local medical community, with Health Visitors and Midwives being particularly supportive of my work with babies and pregnant mums. I my last year in York before moving to Australia I was given consulting rights at the York Nuffield Hospital, one of a handful of “consultant” Osteopaths in the country. The call came to move my family to Queensland in 2010 and I set up practice in Buderim on the Sunshine Coast. My focus is still very much on helping all members of the family in as gentle and effective way that my 32 years experience allows. When not treating patients you can find me gardening or paddling my kayak.