Chiropractor mobilising a patient’s hip and leg during a sports assessment

Sports Chiropractic

Sports chiropractor treating an athlete on a treatment table after competition

Service

Sports Chiropractic for Performance Across Central & South West London

Whether you're marathon training, playing Sunday league or lifting three times a week, the pattern is usually the same: something stops moving properly, something else compensates, and a few weeks later the compensation is what hurts.

Sports chiropractic looks at the whole chain rather than only the sore bit.

Assessment of movement, load and mechanics, not just the site of pain
Adjustments and joint mobilisation to restore range of movement
Soft-tissue and sports massage techniques for tight or overloaded muscle
Strength and mobility work targeted at the actual weak link
Return-to-sport planning, so you go back at the right time rather than the earliest possible one

We work with massage and sports therapists in-house, so treatment and recovery work can run alongside each other.

Minor sports injuries
General acute and chronic backache and back pain, and lumbago
Mechanical neck pain
Sciatica
Shoulder complaints, including rotator cuff injuries and soft tissue disorders of the shoulder
Elbow pain and tennis elbow arising from associated musculoskeletal conditions of the back and neck
Joint pains
Muscle spasms and cramp
Ankle sprain, for short-term management
Plantar fasciitis, for short-term management
Generalised aches and pains

Serious injury needs imaging and often needs a specialist. If that's what we find, we'll say so and refer you on rather than treat around it.

Our chiropractors train, race and compete themselves, which matters more than it sounds. They understand why "just stop running for six weeks" is not the answer you're looking for, and they'll work with you to find one that is.

Expect someone who takes your goals seriously, whether that's a sub-three marathon or getting through a five-a-side game without your back seizing up.

Highly trained, GCC-registered chiropractors across six London clinics
Postgraduate training in sports and performance chiropractic
Massage and sports therapists in-house for soft-tissue and recovery work

Bring your training history. What you do, how often, what changed recently and when the problem started - that's usually where the answer is.

Clothes you can move and be assessed in
Bring your running shoes if it's a lower-limb problem
Treatment usually starts the same day
You'll leave with something to do between sessions - this is not a passive process
We'll be straight with you about training modification, including when you don't need to stop

FAQs

Sports Questions, Answered

Often not. Complete rest is rarely the right answer, and modifying load usually beats stopping altogether. We'll work out what you can keep doing.

Massage treats soft tissue. Chiropractic assessment covers joints, movement and mechanics as well, and includes diagnosis. Many people end up using both, which is why we have therapists in the same building.

Yes, though the week of a race isn't the time to change anything significant. Come earlier if you can.

Not usually. We assess first and use imaging only where it would change what we do.

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