
Dr Neil Harding was born in Masterton and moved to Auckland as a child. From a young age he was very interested in sport.
Neil was a representative player in squash, football (soccer) and cricket at schoolboy level. Along with this, his late stepfather, Dardir, was a top world class squash player and the New Zealand national squash coach for 20 years and through this, he developed a special interest in the psychology of sport.
Neil moved to Australia at the age of 20 and lived there for the next 16 years. During this time he discovered the benefits of chiropractic as a patient. He decided to become a chiropractor himself following the dramatic improvement during chiropractic care of one of his children, who had suffered severe colic almost constantly for the first four months of their life.

Dr Neil Harding was born in Masterton and moved to Auckland as a child. From a young age he was very interested in sport. Neil was a representative player in squash, football (soccer) and cricket at schoolboy level. Along with this, his late stepfather, Dardir, was a top world class squash player and the New Zealand national squash coach for 20 years and through this, he developed a special interest in the psychology of sport.
Neil moved to Australia at the age of 20 and lived there for the next 16 years. During this time he discovered the benefits of chiropractic as a patient. He decided to become a chiropractor himself following the dramatic improvement during chiropractic care of one of his children, who had suffered severe colic almost constantly for the first four months of their life.
Neil graduated with Honours in 2001 from RMIT University in Melbourne and received the ‘Award for Clinical Excellence’ for his graduating year. He then returned to New Zealand, and worked in Cambridge for the next five years. He moved to Waiheke Island in 2006 to assist a colleague in Pakuranga, Auckland and then went on to establish Island Chiropractic on Waiheke Island in 2006.
Neil served as an examiner for the New Zealand Chiropractic Registration Board for seven years, as well as Convenor of Examinations for two years. In 2010/11 he served on Council for the New Zealand Chiropractors’ Association.