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Alexander founded the FFT® method in
1994 during his eight year appointment to the Australian Ballet.
The Australian Ballet award Ron in 1997, The Lady Southey Scholarship for Excellence. This included a 6-week study tour of Europe. Ron's passion for tape was further encouraged by Dr Karim Khan, Dr Ken Crichton and Physiotherapists Jan Smith (PhD cand) and Susan Mayes. Ron is currently a freelance consultant for the Australian Ballet, presents FFT workshops in Australia and internationally. He currently is co-investigator of an RCT on FFT for Chronic Low Back Pain. FFT is the subject of a PhD (Cand, Shu-Mei Chen) which includes a randomised double blind placebo controlled trial. This study is supervised by Associate Professor Cook, Professor Lo and Professor Bass. Ron has presented the FFT method to the following: ¤ Fifth
Interdisciplinary World Congress
on Lower Back &Pelvic Pain (2004, 2007)
¤ International Olympic Committee World Congress on Sports Sciences ¤ The Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport (1998, 2005) ¤ Sports Medicine Australia (NSW, Biannually) ¤ The Football Association (FA) Academy, League Teams Medical In-Service Training ¤ Football Association Conference/Royal College of Surgeons UK ¤ The Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra (2004) 
¤ Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Association 14th Biennial Conference ¤ Institute of Registered Myotherapists of Australia ¤ Soft Tissue Injury Forum Melbourne Univesity (1996) ¤ First International Fascia Research Congress, Harvard Medical School (2007) {Abstracts} ¤ International Private Practitioners Association Innovate Conference ¤ Australian Association of Massage Therapists Conference (1998, 2005, 2006) ¤ Essendon FC 'Go Bombers'  ¤ Australian Rules Football ¤ St George Hospital Sydney ¤ Chelsea Football Club UK (2006) ¤ Crystal Palace Football Club UK ¤ The Stowmarket Osteopaths UK   >¤ Finland Truku Sports Care (2005, 2006) ¤ Singapore Physiotherapy Emmanuel Physiotherapy (2006, 2007) ¤ London Physio UK (2005, 2006, 2007) ¤ Whales ¤ Scotland ¤ USA Westside Dance Medicine NY ¤ Dubai UAE ¤ Hong Kong (Hemax Rehabilitaion)  
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