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Meet the Team
Whether you are looking for a quick re-alignment, relief from your headache, restoration of spinal health and function, treatment of a “slipped disc”, improved sporting performance or that added edge in preventing injury your Doctor of Chiropractic will help you achieve your goals.
Dr Simon Lawson
Dr Simon Lawson DC(UK) MTC(SA) ICSSD MSc Sports Med (UK)
Chiropractor and Sports Physician
Dr Lawson graduated from the School of Chiropractic (TWR) at the end of 1999. In the same year he completed his International Chiropractic Sport Science Diploma (ICSSD) and worked as a FICS (International Federation of Sports Chiropractors) Chiropractor at the 7th All Africa Games held in Johannesburg. He worked as a locum in and around Johannesburg for 3 months before leaving to further his education in the UK. He completed his Diploma of Chiropractic (DC) through the British Chiropractic Association in 2001 whilst working in a family chiropractic Clinic in Cardiff, Wales. He worked there for over two years before taking a job at the Blackberry Orthopaedic and Sports injury Clinic in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, where he was one of four Chiropractors along with 20 other health and fitness professionals from Sports Physicians, physiotherapists, orthopaedists and neurosurgeons to remedial therapists and pilates instructors.
Dr Lawson then moved to Nottingham to take up a part-time position at Sherwood Chiropractic Clinic whilst studying an MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine full-time. As a student on the Sports Medicine course at Nottingham, Dr Lawson was able to work with Derbyshire County Cricket Club, consult with UK Athletics and the English Cricket Board. He worked as the Chiropractor for the British Masters Medical team for five years, looking after the Masters Athletes for indoor and outdoor British, European and World Athletic Championships. He was also fortunate enough to be selected as one of the international Chiropractors on the FICS team to work at the 2005 (Duisberg, GER) and 2009 (Kaosiung, TAI) World Games.
Dr Lawson returned to South Africa in 2005 and established the Morningside Chiropractic and Sports Injury Clinic in Morningside, Sandton, where his team of Chiropractors work very closely with the resident Physiotherapists, Biokineticists and Pilates instructors and inter-refer with the Morningside Medi-clinic and the Back-on-track Sports Medicine Centre.
Dr Lawson is the current Chairman of Chiro Sport South Africa and sits on the executive committee of the South African Sports Medicine Association. He has a passion for spinal health and sports medicine and finds Chiropractic to be the perfect link between the two.
Dr Matthew Proctor
Dr Matthew Proctor MTC(SA)
Chiropractor
After two years at the University of Johannesburg’s Student Chiropractic Clinic, and completing his internship, Dr Proctor graduated in 2010, where he received his Masters Degree in Chiropractic. He has a passion for sports, and finds Chiropractic an effective tool in the treatment of sports injury, as well as improve overall sporting performance. During his studies he was actively involved in the development and promotion of Chiropractic in sports from a student-level through the Student Chiropractic Sports Council.
Dr Proctor worked as a locum in Johannesburg for 3 months before joining Dr Lawson at the Morningside Chiropractic and Sports Injury Clinic in Morningside, where he is able to work with resident Physiotherapists, Biokineticists and Pilates instructors, as well as other health care practitioners in the the Morningside Medi-clinic and the Back-on-track Sports Medicine Centre.
Dr Proctor sits on the executive committee of Chiro Sport South Africa, and is a member of the South African Sports Medicine Association, and Chiropractic Association of South Africa.
Dr Proctor is a clinician at the Chiropractic Health Clinic at the University of Johannesburg.
Reception/Admin Staff
Mrs. Ronel Pretorius is involved with all the reception/administrative tasks here at the Morningside Chiropractic & Sports Injury Clinic. She looks forward to helping you with any questions you may have.
Mrs. Ronel Pretorius
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