Gordon Linscott
Gordon Linscott DC MSc graduated from the Anglo-European College of
Chiropractic in 1983 and has been an active member of the British Chiropractic
Association holding a number of elected positions and appointments including
Executive Council Member 1990-93 and Chairman of the Board of Education (BoE)
1992-94.
As Chairman of the BoE he was responsible for developing the
Graduate Education Programme and was the lead author for a paper on standards of
Chiropractic Practice for the European Chiropractors' Union, a precursor to the
current General Chiropractic Council Code of Conduct.
In 1995 he was
appointed an Examiner for all the European Chiropractic Colleges
In 2002
Gordon completed a post graduate MSc Masters Degree, producing notable papers on
headache, spinal stenosis, thoracic disc prolapse and analysis of lateral lumbar
spine X-rays. Further work on rehabilitation at home for chronic low back
pain and rehabilitation following industrial injury influenced him to become
more interested in patient management with self-help rather than just treatment.
Gordon describes his area of interest as ‘the effect of the fear of pain due
to lack of understanding in chronic low back pain patients’ and has carried out
research on how this can become more disabling than the pain itself. His
MSc thesis focussed on using a mechanical back pain model to help patients
understand their problem and therefore help them not only to recover faster by
allaying their fear, but to learn with confidence how to improve their lifestyle
and reduce their long term back problem.
Currently Gordon is lecturing to
multi-disciplinary groups on the management of back pain and the back pain
patient, he is registered on the post graduate lecture programme for management
of back pain which is validated for training of GPs in North Hampshire. Over the
last 5 years has lectured at a number of World, European and National
Conventions, most recently at the Swiss Chiropractic Convention in 2009.
He is a guest lecturer at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractors in
Bournemouth as part of the undergraduate programme.
