Neck pain treatment in Newbury: Can Chiropractic help? Neck pain is the 3rd leading cause for pain and disability in the UK1. Neck pain is also one of the most common reasons people seek help at our clinic in Newbury. What causes neck pain? How can it be treated?...
Category: Newbury
Post-Surgical Rehabilitation: Recovering Strength and Function After Surgery
Post-Surgical Rehabilitation: Recovering Strength and Function After Surgery Surgery is often only one step in the recovery process, the far more challenging and often underestimated part of your recovery is you rehabilitation. Whether it is a hip replacement, knee replacement, rotator cuff repair or spinal surgery, the procedure addresses...
Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation Techniques (IASTM)
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation Techniques I know what you are thinking, why is a Chiropractor talking about soft tissue therapy? I know a lot of people think all Chiropractors do is “crack backs” and call it a day, right? Well, this is where Spriggs Chiropractic is different to...
Cervicogenic Vertigo and Chiropractic
Cervicogenic Vertigo: Causes, Symptoms, and Chiropractic Management I have been fascinated by the human body since I was a child. One of the processes I am still fascinated by is balance. Learning to balance, walk, run, play sports, throw and catch objects are the most complicated things your body...
Patient Case Study: Mr T
How Can Exercise Help Your Back Pain?
How Can Exercise Help Your Back Pain? Low back pain affects 577 million people worldwide at any given time 1, so what are the best ways of managing the most common of the most common conditions? In contrast to the title of this blog, not that long ago, medical...
We Are Back Blogging!
We are back blogging! Oh, how I have missed it and it is about time we got back to it. It feels great that we are back blogging. I bet there are so many questions, where have we been? Why haven’t we been blogging? I will answer all these...
Happy Third Birthday to Spriggs Chiropractic & Nutrition!
Happy Third Birthday to Spriggs Chiropractic & Nutrition! February marks three years since our grand opening, and in this post, I will be looking back over these amazing three years and letting you in on our secret plans for the years to come. From our humble beginnings We first...
Wolff’s Law
Wolff’s law is a physiological property of bone tissue. In its most technical terms, it is the principle of bone adaptation from stress generated potentials. In more simple terms, it is the change in bone structure as a result of the stresses placed on them. So for example, it...
Obesity and Back Pain
Obesity and back pain, are they related? The simplest answer is yes, excessive body mass increases loads on the spine leading to excessive stress and strain on the tissues and joints of the low back. The effects of mechanical loads and forces on the spine is something that has...










