Gerry Carter is one of the most experienced osteopaths working in the UK today and has had an unparalleled career to date. He is fully registered with the General Osteopathic Council and has more than twenty years’ experience treating patients.

His Experience:

Gerry started his London practice twenty years ago in Notting Hill, west London, and developed the sports clinic at the Central London YMCA – one of the largest sports clubs in the UK. Three years ago he moved to Brighton and began the development of his back care centre in the Montpellier and Clifton Hill area at the heart of the Regency city.

He is one of only a handful of osteopaths in the UK to have been chosen to practice within the NHS as a permanent staff member, where he worked at the Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust in the health centre environment alongside General Practitioners, physiotherapists and podiatrists.

Gerry has significant experience treating sports-related conditions. During his career he:

• was osteopath to the English National Ballet
• was the sports injury osteopath at the London Central YMCA and Earls Court Gym
• has worked with sportsmen from the Thames Rowing Club and the Wimbledon Entertainers International Rugby Club
• has treated patients involved in various sports and health interests including yoga, dance, athletics, rugby, football, rowing, tennis, and weight-training, to name but a few
• worked as a film unit osteopath for the Jim Henson creature workshop in the late 1980s on the film 'Monster Maker', starring Harry Dean Stanton.

Lecturing:

He has a long history of lecturing in osteopathic education and has taught Clinical Anatomy since 1989 at the British School of Osteopathy and the European School of Osteopathy. He is currently Senior Lecturer and examiner at the European School of Osteopathy, in Clinical Anatomy – arguably the osteopaths' most important subject.

A significant percentage of osteopaths working today received their Clinical Anatomy training from Gerry.

He is currently the most senior osteopath lecturing in Clinical Anatomy in the UK, and his teaching experience includes lecturing at St Charles’ Hospital in London.

His Training:

During his four-year training at the British School of Osteopathy, where he studied in the mid-1980s, Gerry’s conduct was exemplary. Out of a class year of 130 students he:

• received the Anatomy Prize as the best student in the subject
• received both of the awards given for best osteopathic technique
• graduated with Honours – a prize only awarded to the top 10% of graduates
• was awarded the Medal of Conspicuous Merit, which is only granted to one of approximately 600 graduates
• has been awarded prizes from the Princess Royal, HRH Princess Anne, on five occasions for his work.