Petra Tanner began her career as a physiotherapist in her home country of Holland, in Amsterdam. She started as physiotherapist for the women’s first basketball team Black Velvet.

After moving to England in order to experience the functioning of the NHS and pursuing her ambition to become a paediatric physiotherapist, she ended up working in Milton Keynes full time in paediatrics and evenings in a sports injury clinic and going climbing every weekend.

When meeting her future husband she decided to change her plan to go to Australia and followed him to Bermuda instead. Having always been very sports oriented, Petra started a clinic in Bermuda for Sports and Exercise related injuries.

On returning to this country she continued in the same line and decided that paediatrics would have to be discontinued as having a family, running a musculoskeletal clinic and keeping fit herself was enough to keep her busy. Petra started the new manual therapy MSC but found the time commitment too heavy and stopped after two years.

She has however continued her training on a yearly basis (average 80 hrs /yr) and has trained in a variety of techniques such as manipulation, muscle energy techniques, Alexander technique, muscle balance work, neuromuscular techniques, sacrocranial techniques and much more.

She has trained with Professor Janda, Dr.Levitt, Mark Comerford, Jenny McConnell, David Butler and Michael Leahy. She is a member of the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine, BASM, and is a full body certified Active Release Practitioner. Petra is a keen tennis player, runs (mainly fells) and has converted from Shotokan to Choi Kwang Do but her main love will always be mountaineering. Petra recognised that Choi Kwang Do offers a comprehensive system of training that is underpinned with knowledge that outweighs other training methods. Apart from that it also offers much more in the opportunity for self development and experience of a sense of community. It can be done at any age and any stage of health development.