THE JOURNEY
PLEIKU → SAIGON → JAPAN → SYDNEY
02 — A LIFE IN MOTION
From Pleiku to Sydney.
A life shaped by war, movement, martial arts and more than four decades of hands-on experience.
1964
Born in Pleiku.
Duy Long Nguyen was born on 17 October 1964 in Pleiku, in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
1972
Childhood during war.
Longy’s childhood unfolded against the upheaval of the Vietnam War, including the 1972 Easter Offensive and his family’s temporary departure from Pleiku.
1970s
Martial arts.
Training became an important part of his childhood and the beginning of a lifelong fascination with movement and the body.
1980–81
Japan.
Another chapter of the journey took Longy to Japan before his eventual arrival in Australia.
1981
Sydney.
Longy arrived in Australia and began building a new life in Sydney.
1980s
From martial arts to treatment.
His knowledge of martial arts increasingly crossed into massage, pressure-point work and hands-on treatment.
BY 1990
A practice built by word of mouth.
Longy’s Sydney practice increasingly grew through personal referrals, bringing him into contact with people from sport, media, business, entertainment and public life.
1990s
Professional sport.
Longy’s work increasingly took him into professional sport and elite competition, including rugby league, boxing, tennis and international athletics.
PAT RAFTER · JIM CASSIDY · ANTHONY MUNDINE · JOHNNY LEWIS · TERRY HILL · BRAD FITTLER · ANTHONY MINICHIELLO · DARREN CAMPBELL · FRANKIE FREDERICKS · LINFORD CHRISTIE
LATE 1990s
Film sets.
Longy’s reputation also carried his work into major film production in Sydney, including the world surrounding The Matrix.
CARRIE-ANNE MOSS · KEANU REEVES · THE MATRIX · FOX STUDIOS SYDNEY
1998
Fashion, media and public life.
By the late 1990s, Longy’s clientele and professional circle reached fashion, entertainment, media and public life.
ELLE MACPHERSON · MEGAN GALE · JIMMY BARNES · ALAN JONES · LEO SCHOFIELD
1998–99
The Lowy connection.
Steven Lowy first came to Longy with an Achilles tendon injury and later returned for other physical problems. That relationship led to a longstanding personal connection with Frank Lowy.
STEVEN LOWY · FRANK LOWY
2000 — SYDNEY OLYMPICS
An Olympic year.
During the Sydney Olympics, Longy’s work again crossed into international elite athletics, including the British sprinting world.
DARREN CAMPBELL · LINFORD CHRISTIE
2004
The Dragon’s Journey.
Longy’s life story was published as The Dragon’s Journey, with a foreword jointly written by Rupert Murdoch and Frank Lowy.
TODAY
Still hands-on.
Longy continues to practise in Sydney, with clinics in Paddington and Milperra. He has a particular focus on chronic neck pain, recurring stiffness and headaches where neck tension or other musculoskeletal factors may be involved, while continuing to see people for other musculoskeletal pain and injuries.
PADDINGTON · MILPERRA · SYDNEY
Appointment requests are confirmed directly by the clinic.
LONGY NGUYEN
Chronic neck pain & headache treatment
Paddington & Milperra, Sydney
40% of consultation fees support wounded and disabled South Vietnamese veterans.
© 2026 Longy Nguyen
Paddington & Milperra, Sydney