If you are looking to find an experienced sports injury practitioner, both in terms of being able to offer treatment and who is still competing at a high level of sport himself, there are few to compare to Osteopath Marc Jones.

He has an extensive understanding of sport and its associated injuries through his wide-ranging experiences as both an athlete and as an Osteopath.

Marc Jones is the current (2011) Dorset Athletics Association county champion and record holder over 100m in the Masters category and came 4th in the final of the 100m British Masters Track & Field Championships in 2011.

In 2011 he played in the British Veterans Tennis Grass Court Championships at Wimbledon and the Clay Court Championships in Bournemouth.

After his early school days of football, rowing and hiking through the mountains of Snowdonia he became a beach patrol lifeguard and a swimming and life-saving instructor which enabled him to go on to Sports College. From there, as well as achieving the academic standards required for his qualification, it was also necessary for him to become competitive across the sporting spectrum in such sports as football, rugby, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, hiking, kayaking, swimming and athletics, some of which involved competing for the college at regional and national level.

However, the side effect to all of this intensive physical activity was the associated injuries that most athletes suffer if they push themselves hard on a regular basis and it is from these experiences and the unfortunate lack of understanding of sports people and their injuries that lead him to become an Osteopath, as no amount of medication or simple therapy could get him back out on to the sporting fields quickly enough.

During his subsequent four year, full-time clinical osteopathic degree studied at the British School of Osteopathy (then at Trafalgar Square in central London) in 1991 he started to train specifically as a track athlete outside of lectures 6-7 days per week.

As an athlete he qualified for the National Championships, won county medals, ran for his county, captained athletics clubs in both the Southern and National Leagues and achieved a 100m time of 10.7 seconds placing him in the top 50 in the UK at the time.

After graduating as an Osteopath he took his training and specialist area of interest in sports injuries and gained results treating many sportsmen and women as well as being involved with UK Athletics overseas training camps as the sports injury specialist. Following his own successful osteopathic and sports injury clinic in Sussex, he then moved to live and work in Canada for two years and treated sports people involved in winter sports such as ice-skating, ice hockey, skiing, snow-boarding, as well as from the international performance artiste group Cirque du Soleil and the Canadian Commonwealth and Olympic programs in both Montreal and Vancouver.

Since retiring from athletics in the late '90s (although he picked up his spikes again for one race in 2011), Marc Jones has become a competitive tennis player and has gained a tennis coaching certificate to add to his previous coaching qualifications in gym instruction, swimming and life-saving teaching and general sports coaching.