Bruce Wihongi was born and raised in New Zealand, one of five children, loved by Mum and Dad, Raywynne and Patariki Wihongi. He played a variety of sports in his youth, and generally had a heck of a lot of fun.
Having started off heading down a Mechanical Engineering path, Bruce took 2 years off to travel through Europe and Asia. Upon his return to New Zealand he changed his mind about career choices and ended up going to and graduating from Physiotherapy school in Auckland, New Zealand.
With a shortage of PTs in the USA in the early 1990’s an opportunity to travel overseas again beckoned and Bruce landed in Detroit on July 4th, 1993, supposedly for 2 years only and then back to New Zealand to settle down.
However life throws “curve balls” at you and here he still is. He has three children, 2 of whom graduated from MSU, all of whom have moved away. They are fully immersed in their own careers and live in Grand Rapids, Chicago, and Nashville.
Bruce has been in the Milford/Highland area since May of 1999 when he opened a clinic for Excel Rehabilitation. In 2013 they were bought out by ATI and Bruce remained there until October 2016. Tired of working for a large corporation, he opened Kiwi PT in June 2017 and started another chapter in life.
He has developed his own style of treatment, taking on board techniques from different PT gurus, and being open to learning new innovations in the PT world, as well as using common sense and the vast experience he has gained from treating all manner of patients and conditions over the past 30 years.
In his own words, “I have been blessed along my journey with aroha (love) and help from many wonderful people. I am lucky to have a group of fantastic and caring people to work with everyday and am extremely grateful to the local community for supporting us through thick and thin.”
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