Paul St. John attended the University of Rochester and was certified by New York State in radiological technology. He later served as a combat medic with the U.S. Army’s 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. After returning home, he attended the American Institute of Massage Therapy in Gainesville and became a Florida-licensed massage therapist.

Paul’s own experience with chronic pain after serious injuries led him to study pain mechanisms, anatomy, the nervous system, posture, and muscular dysfunction. Drawing on extensive research and the work of influential clinicians and manual-therapy educators, he developed the St. John Method of Neuromuscular Therapy, which he founded in 1980.

Over the following decades, Paul taught healthcare and manual-therapy professionals, authored training materials, and lectured nationally and internationally. His presentations included professional meetings and programs associated with Johns Hopkins, Duke University, the American Academy of Head, Neck and Facial Pain, and the World Congress on Posturology. In 1987, the Florida State Massage Therapy Association named him Massage Therapist of the Year. He also served as a consultant to the Indiana Pacers for soft-tissue athletic injuries.

In 2004, Paul St. John and Randall Clark co-founded Neurosomatic Therapy as an evolution of the St. John Method of Neuromuscular Therapy. Together they expanded the work with specific visceral, atlas-axis, TMJ, and cranial protocols. Paul continues his research and clinical practice at St. John-Clark Pain Treatment Center, the founding clinic of Neurosomatic Therapy. Since 2012, NST has also been taught and further developed at the Center for Neurosomatic Studies.