Hello,

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I'd like to introduce myself first of all. My name is Nico Mawhinney and I own this little business, new at that. I come from a little village called Castledawson and I have raced motorcycles from I was a child.

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I come from a small little family, just my mum Irene, dad Geoff, and sister Courtney. My mum is from Belfast and my dad literally was born and reared where my clinic is today. My dad was always a huge motorcycle fan and had a big interest his whole life but my grandfather, "Jaunty" was far from a fan. He didn't want my dad to be bringing one around the house, as the saying went was, "if you bring a bike around this house ill put a hatchet through it." My Granda was a Joiner, my dad is a joiner, my great grandfather was a joiner and I was a joiner.

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Whenever I was at school, I unfortunately had decided that I was going to be a professional motorcyclist growing up in race paddocks with my dad when he actually did wear my Granda down enough to eventually allow bikes around "The Leitrim road". So education wasn't really my forte as such. I did have quite a good attempt at becoming pro, I put in the effort, the countless hours training, the hours research on learning the motorcycle trade so that I could understand the working parts to make myself faster. 

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Unfortunately, when the luck in my career began to turn I started to realise I didn't bounce as good as I once did and with the horrific injuries I picked up at the 2016 North West 200 and then Mallory park in 2017 I had to take a few years out.

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I just focussed really on getting myself back to some sort of normality after laying in Coventry hospital for 5 weeks in the intensive care and high dependency units.

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When I eventually went back to work with my dad I got back to normal schedule and actually started doing a little bit of training in the gym, I started to lose weight then I started to think about making a comeback to my racing career with still that little hope of getting back to the mainland to race once again full time but of course the world was hit with that torturous time of covid-19. 2020 was a washout.

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2021 we had a new motorcycle and we had another disastrous year trying to get to a good position with the motorcycle. Coming to the end of the season my brakes failed on the way into a bend and I had to jump off the motorcycle and I slid into an arm-co barrier and rebroke my tibia and fibula, it was at this stage after another 15 weeks in cast that I decided time was to start looking at another career.

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The physical anatomy always had a huge pull to me as I have spent so much time with great people who have been trying to help me through all my injuries, it has gave me a chance to learn a lot about the human body and skeleton without actually studying it as I had to deal with it all first hand. So I said that this was it and it was time to go back to school as such so I did and have loved every minute of it to be quite honest.

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I have been to physios all around the country, I have been to sports therapists, manipulators, been to posture therapists, consultants and every type of practitioner you could possibly think of and I have used it as research for this part of my life and new chapter. 

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Once I read a great quote and it was by Wilson Mizner "if you steal from one author its plagarism; if you steal from many its research" with all those different clinics and people I have been to see, I have been able to adapt my own style that I like to imply to my own therapy and clinic.

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See you on the table!

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Nico #11