David’s interest in osteopathy started late in his teens after visiting an osteopath for treatment after a cricket injury. He qualified at the British School of Osteopathy, now the University College of Osteopathy, https://www.uco.ac.uk  in 1990 and has been in private practice in Newbury and Hungerford since then. He practices structural and cranial osteopathy. As well as being based at Shaw, he also has a clinic at the Hungerford doctors surgery in the croft, https://www.hungerfordsurgery.co.uk . He formally tutored and lectured cranial osteopathy to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the British School of Osteopathy. In 2005 he was awarded the post-graduate diploma in osteopathy in the cranial field. He had a paper published in 2012 theorising on the physiology of cranial osteopathic treatment and has presented his research at the Institute of Osteopaths conference. He maintains an active interest in this field of research. He still belongs to the Rollin Becker Institute, www.rollinbeckerinstitute.co.uk , an osteopathic organization that furthers postgraduate cranial osteopathic study. He is a member of the General Osteopathic Council and the Institute of Osteopathy, https://www.iosteopathy.org.