Dr. Outerbridge and I discuss his World Spine Care and the Global
Spine Care Initiative. Geoff Outerbridge received a B.Sc. in Human
Kinetics and a M.Sc. in neuroscience from the University of Guelph. He
began his career working for the University of Waterloo with the Ontario
Universities Back Pain Study, a research study examining the causes of
back pain in industry. In 1996 he started an ergonomics consulting
company to offer his knowledge and experience to clients in a wide range
of environments including mining, assembly line and office. In addition
to ergonomics consulting and running a personal training business, he
attended the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College from which he
graduated in 2001. From 2001, to 2011, Geoff owned a successful
multidisciplinary health clinic in Ottawa that integrated chiropractic,
massage therapy, acupuncture, naturopathy, rehabilitation, and family
medicine. He sold his practice in 2011 to join World Spine Care
(www.worldspinecare.org), an international non-profit organization
bringing sustainable, inter-professional, evidence-based spine care to
underserved regions around the world. He moved his family to Botswana
to establish WSC’s flagship clinics in Botswana, returned from Botswana
in 2013 and has remained with WSC as the clinical director. Geoff has
established and continues to supervise WSC clinics in Botswana, the
Dominican Republic, Ghana, and India, and develops new projects in other
countries. He continues part time in clinical practice at Integrate
Healthcare Collective in Ottawa (www.integrateottawa.ca).
See Dr. Outerbridge’s research articles at researchgate.net
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