Has over 40 years clinical experience working in the NHS, professional sport and private practice. Has specialist postgraduate qualifications in Progressive Exercise Therapy; Manipulative & Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Intramuscular Stimulation (dry needling) and Injection Therapy.
Qualified in 1985 and worked for nearly 2 years in a north London NHS hospital and left to take up a post with British Luge Team in 1986 for tours of Canada and Europe prior to 1988 Olympics.
Appointed club physiotherapist to MCC and Middlesex County Cricket Club (1987-1991) at Lords Cricket Ground. After 4 seasons he resigned to undertake full-time postgraduate studies in Perth, Australia.
Was a player and Club Physiotherapist for Wasps Rugby Club (1985-1991)
In 1991 he entered the one year full-time postgraduate specialisation programme in Manipulative Physiotherapy at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia and upon graduation returned to UK in 1992 to take up Graham Gooch’s offer of becoming the Club Physiotherapist to Essex County Cricket Club.
Established Anglia Spinal and Sports Physiotherapy Centres on the County Cricket Ground in 1993 until relocation to his own clinic in April 2012. In 2010 re-branded to James Davis Physiotherapy.
He left Essex CCC in October 2003 after 12 seasons to work full time in his busy private clinic
Lectured extensively to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), The Football Association (FA) and The Royal London Hospital’s postgraduate Sports Medicine Courses for Doctors and Physiotherapists 1994-1998
Currently organises an annual 3-day international clinical workshop on Cognitive Functional Therapy at Royal Free Hospital, London for all clinicians behalf of Prof Peter O'Sullivan from Australia, a world leader in the research and treatment of persistent low back and pelvic pain. Go to www.evoolvepaincare.academy for more information.
Titled member of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia 1992 - 2010 (Membership lapsed). Entry by exam only.