I first met Professor Wong in 1979 when nominated to drive a housemate to his Traditional Chinese Medical clinic in Lygon Street, Brunswick. She had an old injury from a horse fall. I too had recently suffered injury and I now realise these many years later my housemates had cunningly engineered it for me to be the driver. Thoroughly sick of seeing me mope about with a sore back, they hoped I would be bright enough to avail myself of treatment.

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This is exactly what happened. I approached the student/receptionist Glenys Savage and asked if I could get treatment too. Sent to cubicle eight and one hour later left the clinic with no pain for the first time in three months. It was like a miracle to me. Two more treatments and the Professor tells me, “You do not need more treatment. Go now.”

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Two years later, after a catastrophic fall, the local GP x-rays my arms and tells me the elbows are broken. I will never turn a screwdriver again unless the breaks are surgically pinned. Either way, arthritis will set in within two years. The thought of arthritis sounded like a death sentence to the 25 year old sitting in the Doctor’s surgery contemplating the options. Remembering the Chinese doctor's miracle work on my back, I think to myself, “I don't know what he can do for broken bones but I am going to find out.” Thanking the Doctor, I took the x-rays and somehow drove my old Ford station wagon with no power steering across town to the new Northcote clinic.

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The Professor viewed the x-rays, laughed and said he could treat this using martial arts medicine. A dark brown herbal paste was applied to the elbows for the first three days making the broken pieces in the joints draw back together. The following days a white herbal paste was applied to accelerate healing. I had several treatments in that week which included acupuncture, herbal paste and herbal sachets. Direction given to use a sling on each arm together with a wooden brace with peg to align the hand/forearm in a neutral position. After three weeks the slings were cast aside and rehab exercise commenced. That was 43 years ago. I have full mobility in both arms and no arthritis.

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(That is, until last year when the left medial epicondyle developed sharp pains with heavy workloads. Potions and lotions with much rubbing proved useless. Collagen supplementation has largely resolved that joint issue.)

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This injury was the last straw in a series of injuries and health issues dogging me. I worked too hard. Played too hard. Did not look after myself. This was a sign and I commenced training attending the Professor’s Tai Chi Chuan course. Training continued for ten years.

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Many years later I am a therapist practising a fusion of East and West as an advanced Remedial Therapist. I never became a black belt nor a TCM doctor at the Professor’s Academy. However, I did learn to sense, cultivate and control Qi giving insight to many conditions not well understood by conventional therapists. Attending to structural leg length discrepancy and postural anomaly, guiding treatment in accordance energetic Qi flow principles, treatment outcomes beyond expectation are achieved.

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As a Remedial Therapist, the scope of practice is treating mobility issues generating pain, dysfunction and injury. In doing so, resolving the “Pelvic Block” generated by structural leg length discrepancy, coincidental beneficial side effects to internal health are reported by my clients. This is not so hard to understand as fourteen acupuncture meridians pass through the pelvis between torso and lower limbs. Clearing distortion and strain through the soft tissue of the pelvis improves energetic Qi flow having a beneficial effect on internal health.

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This is supported by Traditional Chinese Medical theory and known to a few TCM practitioners. However, it is not taught in their university studies and is new knowledge to modern health science. I suspect, however, it was known by the ancients. When presenting my research findings on Short Right Leg Syndrome to Glenys recently, she exclaimed this was good and important work and stated, “You will remember, the Professor used to examine leg length in digestion cases.” Actually, I did not know that. I was not a medical student of his.

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I owe much to the Professor. He spoke of the five ultimate achievements in human development. The first being, all hearing. Hearing the past, present and future. The second, similarly being all seeing. The third, being all knowing. Not literally knowing all but being able to pick up any book or apply your mind to a topic or problem and have full understanding. The fourth being able to communicate at a distance with others similarly trained. The highest level of development is your body will always protect you.

Anyone can achieve these things. They simply have to do the training. Together with beginning to sense, cultivate and control Qi, things of a supernatural nature become present. I did not obsess about it nor attempt to develop or promote it. It just was and is. As I age my vision and experience of this becomes clearer and more prominent.

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I thank the Professor for the training and experience giving insight and ability to do the work I do. He gave much of his time to address students and give demonstrations each week in the dojo, classroom and clinic. I am deeply moved by this. We are fortunate he chose to come to this country and pass on his knowledge to us.

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Vale Professor Wong Lun OBE OAM, 10th dan Tang So Do, 1 January 2011 - 27 April 2017