‘The man with the magic hands’

■ Health practitioner Michael Nixon-Livy has the reputation internationally as ‘the man with the magic hands’.

He has returned to Australia after assignments that have seen him practise in clinics in France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Italy and Belgium.

In addition to his teaching commitments, Michael and wife Jo have settled at Macleod where they are raising their two young daughters, aged 6 and 3.

Michael is enthusastic about sharing his services with a method that he developed in the 1990s.

The method - which he says is particularly effective is treating back pain and neck pain - involves a stand-out technique, that Michael teaches to other health professionals including chiropractors and osteopaths.

The technique is gentle contact with points in the body that alerts the body to re-set. The same points that link physical issues in the body, can also affect the emotional operation of the body.

Michael says it is quite an empowering process to assist people re-set their own emotional status and nervous system.

This looks after the whole person in integfrated systematic ways.

Michael labels his care as a ‘Neurostructural Integration Technique’ (NST), and says that leading health authorities believe it to be the world’s premier ‘handson’ technique.

His aim always is for pain removal and rejuvenation.

“Using highly specialised softtissue manipulation, NST is able to reset the body’s muscle tensional system causing safe, natural auto regulation to occur within the spinal column and its structures, therby rapidly eliminating pain and symptoms, while restoring postural integrity and vitality.

“Typically an NST session induces deep relaxation followed by profound and often miraculous results.

“Clinical research has confimred that even in chronic cases, more than 80 per cent of NST recipients are symptom free in 1-5 sessions.

“Safe for all conditions and age groups, an NST session may last anywhere from 5 minutes to 45 minutes, depending on the individual’s presenting symptoms.”

Appointment fees are $200, which are often fully or partly refundable by some health insurers.

Conditions that respond well to NST include:

■ Back pain, neck pain and all spinal conditions.

■ Leg, knee, ankle and foot conditions.

■ Shoulder, elbow, wrirst and hand conditions.

■ Headaches including migraines.

■ Cranial conditions including whiplash.