Our story: where Academia NeuEra comes from

I was five when I wore my first foot orthoses.

At seventeen, there was talk of putting me in a wheelchair. I was in too much pain to stand for long. I was in a social reintegration program, and I worked sitting down. At eighteen, I wore orthoses on my legs and feet. I also went through an alcohol addiction.

At twenty-five, I could no longer turn my head. Insurance companies refused to take me on as a client. I was seeing a chiropractor and an orthotherapist five times a week.

I went to osteopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists, acupuncturists and naturopaths. None of these practices was the answer on its own. Each one opened a door onto the body. And I never turned my back on medicine.

My chiropractor's joint testing was my turning point. Before believing anything, I wanted to measure it.

Being treated five times a week, I learned my anatomy. I remembered the terms. I talked about the glenohumeral joint with my therapists. My orthotherapist told me to study the field. One of my friends had just become an orthotherapist. And my chiro kept saying: "Wow, you'd make a good chiro."

I have always loved to understand things. I have a bit of an engineer's brain. I was always looking for the how, and I kept making connections. I think health professionals appreciated that.

So I left IT. In 2009, I started massage therapy. On January 7, 2010, I was a certified massage practitioner. I had already mastered joint realignment.

And one question would not let go of me. I kept asking my chiropractor. Why did joints always slip back into small misalignments? Massage relaxed the muscles. Mobilisations helped too. So why did it always come back? As if a program were running in the background, constantly rotting our work.

That question built everything else. Functional neurology, posturology and traditional Chinese medicine shed a lot of light on that pattern.

From 2012 to 2015, I ran a training centre, Primal Camp. In 2016, I started teaching for AMN Academy, in Canada and the United States. The same year, I founded the Institut Neuro Performance. With the Institute, I taught first in France and Canada, then expanded across Europe. In 2020, the Institute became Academia NeuEra.

Today, I have more than 17 years of practice. I have been teaching internationally since 2016, for more than ten years. More than 500 practitioners have trained at the school.

What I teach comes from that question. Tissue matters. But sometimes, what brings the problem back is decided elsewhere. The Neuro-Tissue Triage is a hands-on, in-session test that tells a neurological cause from a tissue cause, with one measurement before and one after.

We test. We intervene. We retest. We decide from what changes.

Nicolas Desjardins
Founder of Academia NeuEra