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World-Travelling Chiropractic Pair Recognised for Humanitarian Efforts
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| Both Drs. John and Judy Hinwood grew up in families that instilled a strong work ethic and where community involvement was important. John had a very challenging childhood as he had a major orthopaedic problem with his legs in his early years, and a specialist told his parents he would be disabled and never be able to play sport. He was also a bad stutterer and very dyslexic and was prevented from going to a regular high school as the educational experts said he couldn’t be taught. On becoming School Captain and Head Prefect at 15, he eventually stopped stuttering, was Dux of the School and also that year became Australian Open Junior Judo Champion. As Henry Ford said, "If you think you can; if you think you can’t, you’re probably right." Judy comes from a small rural town in the heart of Australia’s dairy farming country, Bega, in New South Wales. John grew up in Australia’s largest and best-known city, Sydney. |
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They met while studying physical education in 1964 at Sydney Teachers’ College and married in 1967.
It was on their honeymoon in 1967 that they were introduced to chiropractic when Judy became paralysed from the waist down while they were camping at the beach. Several medical specialists had told her that she would be in a wheelchair soon, and others said her problems were all ‘in her head’.
John carried Judy in to see her first chiropractor and she gingerly hobbled out on her own two feet. Chiropractic was an absolute MIRACLE for Judy!
They spent the next two years teaching in rural Australia then went to Singapore in 1969 on an old cargo boat and travelled overland throughout Asia and the Middle East before arriving in Europe in 1970.
Here they spent the next eighteen months teaching and travelling by VW Beetle initially and then by Landrover in the U.K., Western and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the days of the ‘Cold War’. Two working spells, the first in Denmark and the second in England gave them enough money to move on. John was also the National Captain-Coach of the Danish Rugby team in 1970. In late 1971 they set out from England and drove through Africa from north to south in their Landrover. After being lost in the Sahara Desert (a compass and maps finally helped out), being hijacked and held up at gun point in the Congo, climbing and being lost near the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro in a blizzard, enjoying weeks of remote game parks, and just avoiding being caught by one of Idi Amin’s Ugandian genocide squads on the Albert Nile, they made it as emigrants to South Africa in 1972 at the height of apartheid. This whole experience was all a truly fabulous life changing experience for them first hand.
It was on their honeymoon in 1967 that they were introduced to chiropractic when Judy became paralysed from the waist down while they were camping at the beach. Several medical specialists had told her that she would be in a wheelchair soon, and others said her problems were all ‘in her head’.
John carried Judy in to see her first chiropractor and she gingerly hobbled out on her own two feet. Chiropractic was an absolute MIRACLE for Judy!
They spent the next two years teaching in rural Australia then went to Singapore in 1969 on an old cargo boat and travelled overland throughout Asia and the Middle East before arriving in Europe in 1970.
Here they spent the next eighteen months teaching and travelling by VW Beetle initially and then by Landrover in the U.K., Western and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the days of the ‘Cold War’. Two working spells, the first in Denmark and the second in England gave them enough money to move on. John was also the National Captain-Coach of the Danish Rugby team in 1970. In late 1971 they set out from England and drove through Africa from north to south in their Landrover. After being lost in the Sahara Desert (a compass and maps finally helped out), being hijacked and held up at gun point in the Congo, climbing and being lost near the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro in a blizzard, enjoying weeks of remote game parks, and just avoiding being caught by one of Idi Amin’s Ugandian genocide squads on the Albert Nile, they made it as emigrants to South Africa in 1972 at the height of apartheid. This whole experience was all a truly fabulous life changing experience for them first hand.
| After some more teaching, and travelling in South Africa and across the Kalahari Desert in Botswana to Namibia and up to Angola, it was time to move on to South America. As John had been accepted as a freshman student at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC), they had seven months to backpack throughout South America, to arrive in Toronto in the fall of 1973. They left Cape Town, South Africa by ship in early February 1973 and arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil two weeks later. Travelling by bus, train, truck, barge, foot and two very scary, short and very cheap aircraft flights in the Amazon and over the Andies, they finally made it to Port of Spain, Trinidad, where they emigrated to Canada. En route in Latin America, John developed what appeared to be a good dose of malaria after our travel down a stretch of the Amazon River. The American Hospital in Rio Bamba, Equador diagnosed the condition as advanced tuberculosis and said they would need to stay there indefinitely, in fact, till he died. Fortunately for him (not for the poor fellow told to return to his remote village), his x-rays had been incorrectly labelled, and after a week’s recuperation, they headed for Colombia. Judy moved to teaching Special Education in a Junior High School in Toronto, Canada to support John through Chiropractic College. However,with the enthusiasm that chiropractic college instantly generated for John, Judy decided that the fall of 1974 would see the start of her journey as a chiropractor also. Life as chiropractic students was fun, hectic, impoverished, difficult and provided some wonderful opportunities in the Toronto area to meet and learn from some committed and outstanding chiropractors. |
John became President of the Students’ Administrative Council at CMCC and received the Award of Merit for School Civic Service, a Sports Award and was Valedictorian and the President’s Graduate of the Year in his Graduating Class of 1977. Graduating, holding those red roses and degree was a pivotal memory for Judy.
During 1977-1978 while Judy completed her final year at CMCC, John practiced in Toronto. Three nights a week he worked from 8pm until 1am when local chiropractors said nobody would come at that time. The Jewish business community in Toronto enjoyed those special extended hours and John was rewarded with a busy practice. Every month during 1977 and 1978, John and Judy would travel across the border to attend seminars on many areas of chiropractic technique, management and philosophy. A fabulous year of learning, fun and expansion for them both as well as making many life long friendships in the U.S.
During 1977-1978 while Judy completed her final year at CMCC, John practiced in Toronto. Three nights a week he worked from 8pm until 1am when local chiropractors said nobody would come at that time. The Jewish business community in Toronto enjoyed those special extended hours and John was rewarded with a busy practice. Every month during 1977 and 1978, John and Judy would travel across the border to attend seminars on many areas of chiropractic technique, management and philosophy. A fabulous year of learning, fun and expansion for them both as well as making many life long friendships in the U.S.
| From June to September 1978, they travelled down through middle America on their way from Toronto to Key West in Florida, up the eastern seaboard of the U.S., to the Maritimes of Canada and then zig-zagged their way across the U.S. and Canada before heading down the West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles. They were treated to overwhelming doses of North American chiropractic hospitality as they visited many clinics and some of the busiest practices on the continent. What gems they collected on their chiropractic treasure hunt! |
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In October 1978, they arrived back in Australia after being away for ten years. They bought a car, were given a Labrador dog and Siamese cat, and travelled 3,500kms throughout three States before they found Forster, an idyllic town of 7,000 people, 350kms north of Sydney on a spectacular lake and surfing beach on the east coast. Judy became the Editor of the Journal of the Australian Chiropractors’ Association from 1980-1982 and she, together with John, were the authors of a number of research papers on the spine and related spinal bio-mechanics. John has written extensively on a large variety of practice management topics over the past seventeen years also. |
| In 1983 Judy developed uterine cancer and had to leave practice. She set about finding out why she had let her health reach such a low ebb, and then went on a self-healing path. With only natural non-medical intervention, she returned to normal health, another healing MIRACLE for Judy. It was a very useful learning experience for her and has enabled Judy to reach many people since who have been searching for a natural route to reclaiming health and well-being, both one-on-one, and in groups. In the late 1980s, they moved Into a beautiful purpose built clinic in suburban Brisbane, which won numerous community awards for its outstanding lush tropical gardens. John has been very active in the Chiropractic profession and was Vice President of both Federal and Queensland State Associations 1983/84, and between 1988 and 1996, he was President of the Australian Spinal Research Foundation (ASRF), and in 1988, with Judy, founded the highly successful Dynamic Growth Congress and Workshops to raise funds for the ASRF. |
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| In 1996 they were named as the Founding Patrons of the Dynamic Growth Congress, which is the largest annual Chiropractic seminar held in the Southern Hemisphere. John now acts as the Honorary Consultant to the ASRF. Also in 1988, John launched the Bridge to the Future Campaign for the ASRF and raised $1.25 million in an eight month campaign for spinal research in Australia. In February 2000, he was Launch Chairman for the Bright Future Campaign to raise a further $800,000 for the ASRF. 1992, Springwood Chiropractic Centre, under John’s direction, was awarded the Business Achiever of the Year Award in the highly competitive small business section of Queensland’s second largest Chamber of Commerce, Logan City. |
| In August 1994, John and Judy left clinical practice to become full-time coaches, mentors and consultants with Powerful Practices, the international company they founded in 1991. John and Judy have been speakers at Chiropractic Conventions in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America over the past twenty seven years. |
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The chiropractic profession in Australia has been kind over the last 25 years in bestowing service awards especially on John.
| In 1985, after being married for 18 years, they adopted three marvellous and challenging totally illiterate older children – Maria Isabel (Shavela) 10½, Ignacio (Nat) 8½ and Rodrigo (Rod) 7, whom they found in orphanages in Chile. The boys were both elective mutes at the time. In 1998 as a family they all returned toChile and found the children’s biological parents and another 120 plus aunts, uncles and cousins. What a fulfilling and completing five week Latin experience that was for them all. Backpacking in Chile, Argentina and Brazil was an added bonus to the trip. After the families trip to Chile in 1998 the travel bug set Shavela, Nat and Rod saving again to ‘hit the road’ as their parents had done thirty years earlier. Shavela went to Europe first, and was then married in India in 2004. She has two beautiful sons, Flynn and Liam who are half Chilean and half Indian and now lives in Brisbane, Australia. Nat moved to the UK with his finance Sandra and brother Rod in 2003 and worked and travelled in Europe before he and Sandra returned to Australia to settle down a year later in Brisbane. Four years on, Rod and his partner Beth are still living and working in London and enjoying travel in Europe, The Middle East and Africa. |
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| In October 2000 John received an Outstanding Service Award from the National President of the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia, Dr Lawrence Tassell. The award was in acknowledgement and appreciation of his service to the association and the chiropractic community in facilitating chiropractic research as chairman of the 'Bridge to the Future' campaign for the Australian Spinal Research Foundation, and for his work as Founding Convenor and Patron of the Dynamic Growth Congress. In July 2001, Dr John Hinwood was inducted as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (FAIM). On September 21, 2001, Drs John and Judy Hinwood were given a Silver Jubilee Award by the Australian Spinal Research Foundation for their generous support of Chiropractic research in a myriad of ways. On October 11, 2001 Dr John Hinwood received the Medal of Recognition from the Australian Institute of Management for his work in Volunteer Management. This was a special medal struck by the Institute to recognise outstanding management performance in the International Year of the Volunteer. In September, 2002, John Hinwood was named as a Fellow of the International College of Chiropractors (FICC) for his work toward the advancement of the profession worldwide. |
| On January 16, 2004 Dr Judy Hinwood was the first non-North American to receive the prestigious award of 'Woman Chiropractor of the Year' at the Parker Seminar in Las Vegas for 'outstanding contributions and in recognition of the special attributes as a woman Doctor of Chiropractic. As well as her ongoing contributions to the chiropractic profession'. In July 2005, the Australian Spinal Research Foundation awarded Drs John and Judy Hinwood Chiropractic Visionary Awards for Selfless Commitment to the Advancement of Chiropractic. In November 2005, Judy was inducted as an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AFAIM). In October 2006, John was inducted as a Fellow (FACC) and Judy as a Member (MACC) of the Australasian College of Chiropractors. Drs John and Judy Hinwood have been coaching and mentoring chiropractors and other health practitioners since 1991 and are also Certified Life Coaches. They are the authors of six books and many video and audio teaching programs for the Chiropractic profession worldwide. |
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Enjoy your reading, viewing and the successes and the joy that you will create in your life. EXPECT A MIRACLE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| 1970: Travelling overland through Asia to Europe, visiting a Bedowin family in Central Afganistan |
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| 1972: Driving Trans Africa...a leopard we came across in the Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda |
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| 1972:Driving Trans Africa...Toureg we met in the Central Sarah Desert, Southern Algeria |
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| 1972: Driving Trans Africa...lions enjoying their mid day snooze high up in the trees to avoid the Tsetse flies. Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania |
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| 1972: Driving Trans Africa...Serrengetti National Park, Tanzania |
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| 1973: Travelling South America from South to North, Iguazu Falls in flood Argentina-Brazil border |
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| 1996: John Hinwood participating at one of his Edge of Power Retreats |
