Gary Murison

My career has spanned many years of working in the field of mental health nursing (RMN), care management, communications and training management & facilitation. Throughout these years I have undertaken many post-graduate training courses and workshops - ranging from Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy to Person Centred Planning. I am a qualified SVQ Assessor (D32/33) and Managing Violence & Aggression trainer.

My professional interests include: person-centred planning, effective communications, human behaviours, standard writing/audit, IT, and the development and facilitation of needs-based training packages.

In 1992 I was successful in gaining a study tour grant from the National Board of Nursing and Midwifery (NBS) Scotland, to spend eight weeks in two centre's of excellence in California, studying Brain Injury Rehabilitation.

In 2003 I undertook the university-accredited, Level 3 Neuromuscular Approach to Human Movement (NMAHM)® course, provided by MovES Ltd. I achieved the Level 3 qualification approximately 18 months later. The course very much changed my outlook and understanding of how efficient movement is an essential element in achieving good health and well-being. Since completing the course I have concentrated my efforts, both personal and business, towards developing my knowledge, skills and competency in understanding human movement and its effects. I am also involved in a working group aiming to take the Neuromuscular Approach to Human Movement forward, through the development of MANAS - MovES Academy of Neuromuscular Approach Studies, as well as working through my Level 4 NMAHM® accreditation.

My CV is available within the downloads section of this site.

History of HNMS

Coming from a nursing background, I was always amazed at how it was almost a given that a nurse would suffer some sort of musculo-skeletal injury during/after their career. Nurses received training - so why was this happening? As it was impossible to take the mind-set that all nurses must be ignoring the advice they were receiving during the training, it could only point to the fact that there must be something within the training that required assessing and improvement. What I discovered was that many of the training systems being used were, and still are, based on promoting technique-based solutions with a strong emphasis on purely mechanical movements. I also found that many companies/organisations were not adequately assessing the quality of the training they were using/purchasing, and in some instances the training was even being viewed as a 'tick box' system - i.e. "The employees have received a Course, we don't need to train them again for 1 year".

With an understanding that human movement is far more complex than suggesting that mechanical, technique-based training would prevent musculo-skeletal injury, it became apparent to me that there needed to be a huge shift in the common ethos adopted within much of the current training systems.

I came across the Neuromuscular Approach to Human Movement (NMAHM)® and everything started to become clear. Manual handling is nothing more than a human movement (application of force). If we know and understand that there are movements which have a high probability of causing injury, then we can begin to look towards methods for reducing this. Human movements have direct consequences on the physiological, bio-mechanical, psychological, anatomical and developmental systems within our body - and vice versa. If we learn about these consequences, we can begin to make the changes, which will not only benefit in reducing risk in current/future situations, but also implement therapeutic intervention to pre-existing injury sites.

The NMAHM® had recognised origins, could be validated against existing research/knowledge and was tangible. I found that many of the other movement systems have no recognised origins, or they claim to be able to teach a person to become a trainer in less than one week! Add to this the factor that many companies were focusing their training structure on monetary targets/budgets rather than employee-care/safety, and it was now becoming more apparent to me why musculo-skeletal injury was still so prevalent!

HNMS was borne from my belief that every person has the right to receive the quality of training/information they deserve.

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I also operate an eguine photography service.

My hobbies include: writing music, travel, gardening and D.I.Y.