Geoff Dakin is a Registered Massage Therapist in Calgary who has been working in the acute injury/chronic pain treatment and athletic training field since 1989. He has 7 years of college and university training as well as countless hours of post-graduate continuing education. In 1991/92 Geoff worked and travelled in the National Hockey League as a member of the training staff of the Vancouver Canucks.

From 1989 until 2002 Geoff was a member of the Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia (MTA of BC) and registered with the College of Massage Therapists of BC (CMT of BC). From 2002 until the end of September 2011, he owned and operated a massage therapy practice in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. While there his patients included professional athletes, music industry icons and Hollywood celebrities. It was while in Mexico that Geoff began using online video sessions to help people from a distance, since many of his patients didn’t live in Mexico full-time.

In terms of his manual therapy, Geoff is primarily a Neuromuscular Therapist. He has found Neuromuscular Therapy to be an effective system for decreasing chronic muscle shortening, trigger points and pain. However, even the very best hands-on therapy is of limited value if not combined with a system of exercise that re-educates joint positioning and overall postural alignment. When a corrective exercise program is properly designed for you and faithfully carried out every day, your muscle balance and function is improved, and pain is diminished or eliminated. Geoff prescribes each patient’s corrective exercise program based on a comprehensive assessment of the patient’s unique alignment and movement patterns. There are neuromuscular therapists and there are corrective exercise experts, but very few practitioners combine these approaches well.

In October 2011 Geoff and his family moved to Canada and he began helping people solve their pain problems in Calgary, Alberta. Since then Geoff has joined a collaborative network of internationally renowned practitioners, including Dr. Jeff Scholten DC (the Vital Posture Clinic), Corey Deacon (Neurvana Health) and Dr. Curtis Westersund DDS (Dentalife). This team of practitioners is often called upon to help patients from across Canada and the United States. 

Geoff has created his own proprietary corrective exercise system that he calls the Alignment First Protocol©. In 2016 Geoff published an Amazon bestselling book called The Body Mechanic’s Handbook; Why You Have Low Back Pain and How To Eliminate It At Home, in which he describes how to use the Alignment First Protocol© to solve chronic pain problems at home. In 2018 he published the second edition of that book. It is that book that often leads people to reach out to Geoff for help online. After working throughout North America for over 30 years, Geoff believes that the Alignment First Protocol© is the most effective way to help patients train their bodies out of pain-producing postures and create lasting relief from chronic pain problems, and he’s got the testimonials to back that up.

Since there are so few people able to provide meaningful rehab services via video sessions the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how critically important the Alignment First Protocol© and The Body Mechanic’s Handbook are and how effective they can be for solving pain problems, both in the treatment room and at home.

Geoff is passionate about helping people overcome chronic pain problems, improve their body and improve their quality of life.