Mark Spriggs
Clinic Owner & Principal Chiropractor
Mark Spriggs, MChiro, MSc (Diagnostic Imaging), FRCC graduated from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic at the University of Glamorgan in South Wales in 2010 with a Masters of Chiropractic degree. Since then, Mark has worked in clinical practice in London before moving back to Berkshire. After working for one of the largest Chiropractic clinical groups in the UK, Mark launched Spriggs Chiropractic and Nutrition in Newbury with his wife Helen. Since then, he has pursued additional certifications in spinal biomechanics and rehabilitation. These studies have lead Mark to attending courses in the US learning directly from some of the leading spine researchers in the world. Mark has a second Masters Degree (MSc) in Enhanced Diagnostic Imaging from Sheffield Hallam University, and PGCert in Higher Education, as he lectures in radiology to chiropractic students at two universities.
Mark is a Fellow of the Royal College of Chiropractors, an associate member of the Orthopaedics and Exercise Rehabilitation faculty and continues to pursue specialist membership with the Imaging Faculty.
Mark’s MSc dissertation investigated the cervical spine and treatment options in chiropractic for cervical spine conditions along with the appropriateness of manipulative therapy for patients presenting to the clinic with cervical spine complaints.
Away from clinic, rock climbing, guitar playing & rugby supporting have given way to maximising family time!
Helen Spriggs
Clinic Director & Reg. Nutritional Therapist
For Spriggs Chiropractic, Helen Spriggs is Co-Clinic Director, keeping the wheels turning behind the scenes.
With sister company Spriggs Nutrition, Helen is a Clinical Nutritionist specialising in providing evidence & clinical informed personalised support to those with chronic conditions, specifically; Headaches, Migraines, Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) & Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD) along with the associated symptoms of hEDS & HSD. Both remote/online and in-person consultations are available with Spriggs Nutrition.
Since initially qualifying as a Registered Nutritional Therapist in 2017, Helen has gone on to complete her MSc in Advanced Nutrition (Research & Practice), with her research-based dissertation entitled: “Nutritional interventions for symptom management in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of patients’ lived experience”
Additionally, Helen has participated in EDS Society ECHO Programs including the Inaugural one & subsequent Allied Health Professionals series. Helen is Registered with both BANT and CNHC, as well as being a member The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).
Away from clinic Helen is a nutrition research lecturer and research supervisor for MSc Nutrition Science & Practice students, a nutrition content creator, and most importantly a mum and wife!