NICK POTTER is a registered osteopath who specialises in cervical spine injuries as well as head, neck and facial pain syndromes. Since qualifying in 1993, he has split his time between his clinical practice and performance medicine. He has worked with elite track athletes, professional golfers, tennis players and Formula 1 drivers. He is a keen and active lecturer and has travelled all over the world to teach, as well as treat, patients. Over the last 15 years he has highlighted and elucidated the concept of the upper cervical syndrome' for which he has formulated treatment techniques with great success. He has also been consultant to a lading hedgefund on human performance and wellbeing for 6 years. He fundamentally believes in making treatment fun and as easy as possible, whenever possible, and cannot see what could be more interesting than people. Perhaps most important of all for patients, he has had a spinal injury himself.