Geoff Dakin has been working in the acute injury/chronic pain treatment and athletic training field since 1989. Early in his career, Geoff recognized that the vast majority of people who suffer from muscle and joint pain also have skeletal malalignment, muscle imbalances and dysfunctional movement habits. The assessment and elimination of these issues is his passion.
Geoff, originally from Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1987 with a bachelor of Physical Education degree. Then in 1989, he graduated from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in Vancouver.
In the 1990s he was a member of the College of Massage Therapists of BC (CMT) and the Massage Therapists Association of BC (MTA) iGeoff Dakin has been working in the acute injury/chronic pain treatment and athletic training field since 1989. Early in his career, Geoff recognized that the vast majority of people who suffer from muscle and joint pain also have skeletal malalignment, muscle imbalances and dysfunctional movement habits. The assessment and elimination of these issues is his passion.
Geoff, originally from Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1987 with a bachelor of Physical Education degree. Then in 1989, he graduated from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in Vancouver.
In the 1990s he was a member of the College of Massage Therapists of BC (CMT) and the Massage Therapists Association of BC (MTA) including stints as VP and President of the MTA.
Geoff has received thousands of patient referrals from highly respected medical practitioners in Canada, the US and Mexico. Geoff also spent a year with the Vancouver Canucks Hockey Club (1991-92), and was one of the first massage therapists in the NHL to travel with his team.
Over the years Geoff has developed a unique system of assessment and treatment, blending a proprietary corrective exercise system he calls The Alignment First Protocol with manual therapy techniques. Committed to delivering this work to as wide an audience as possible, in 2016 Geoff wrote a book called The Body Mechanic's Handbook and developed a massage therapy seminar called Practical Rehab. An Amazon bestseller, the second edition of The Body Mechanic's Handbook will be released in the fall of 2018.
Geoff lives with his wife and son in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, teaching patients and other practitioners how to put their pain problems in their past....more