Keeping healthy at Christmas can be difficult for a number of reasons. Christmas is a special time of year for a lot of people and it means different things to different people. To me and my family, Christmas is a time for us to get together and spend time...
Maintaining a healthy neck (cervical spine) has massive implications for your overall health. The cervical spine is an amazing feat of evolutionary engineering. Structurally, it is nothing more that seven vertebrae sitting vertically on top of each other. Yet functionally, it is a protective column for so many vital components...
Spriggs Nutritions latest and most brand new blog post is now live! Give it a read here and don’t forget to share it on your Facebook and social media platforms. We are all about providing the very best in personalised health care and nutritional support through natural means. In this...
We are so very excited and proud to announce the launch of Spriggs Nutrition. This is a fantastic addition to the Spriggs Wellness Group and will be operating out of the same clinic space as Spriggs Chiropractic in Newbury. Our Registered Nutritional Therapist Helen Fletcher is now seeing patients’...
Me and the team at Spriggs Chiropractic and Spriggs Nutrition have spend the last week in Eagle Idaho at the Ideal Spine Health Centre and the Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP) Doctor Institute. We were here to learn from (in my opinion) the best Chiropractic researchers in the profession at this...
The effects of nicotine and smoking on spinal pain are well understood by science, but not by the general public. Cigarette smoking is well known and documented to be detrimental to ones health and is described as “the leading cause of preventable death in the EU, responsible for nearly...
Structure dictates function, therefore the shape of your spine will dictate how it will function. There have been two recent journal publications in the last couple of months that are of incredible importance and significance to the understanding and management of lower back pain (LBP). The first article...
Maintenance Chiropractic care, why is it recommended to most patients and is there any evidence to support this its use in clinical practice? Well yes there is published evidence in the literature supporting maintenance chiropractic care to patients (Seena et al 2011). Here at Spriggs Chiropractic, we tend to...
Migraines and headaches are considered to be the most common diseases in the world (Steiner et al 2013). The World Health Organisation classifies severe migraine attacks as among the most disabling illnesses, comparable to dementia, quadriplegia and active psychosis (Shapiro et al 2007). Research suggests that 190,000 attacks of migraine alone...
This may seem like an unusual title for this entry but this is a common issue I hear within in the general population and my patients’ in practice. It is incorrect to think that Whiplash is a diagnosis, but this hasn’t stopped some industry professionals telling the public it...