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Chiropractors in W4

Looking for chiropractors in W4.  Specifically for back pain

Elizabeth Ross ● 98d19 Comments

Bump for Simon to read.

Janice Evans ● 17d

Highly recommend Nick Oram-Adams at the Glebe Street Surgery. chiswickchiropractor@gmail.com0208 7471144GENERAL CHIROPRACTIC COUNCIL REGISTEREDG.C.C. 00422

Jacqueline Whiston ● 74d

Sorry not to have responded.  Joined a group of friends in Switzerland, husband skiing while I walked a bit on some of the beautiful prepared trails with 2 poles which improved my mobility.  Also found a hotel with a huge spa pool, water jets, wet and dry saunas and all the amenities that make life civilised.  I particularly appreciated the costume spinner.  Everything spotlessly clean.I was also able to have a couple of half hour massages which improved the back pain but didn’t cure it.Interestingly the massage and a day pass for the spa was Sfr 85.  A good physio is charged in London charges upwards of £150 and chiropractor around the £100 mark.  Unfortunately I broke my prescription glasses which will have to be replaced after eye testing.  No doubt my other glasses will need new lens’s all of which will be expensive.  What a palaver all this is.

Elizabeth Ross ● 78d

I would highly recommend Bene, who is a Chiswick resident https://beneyoga.co.ukShe runs a small and personalised back care class, and her classes have significantly improved my back health and general well-being.

Sandie Goodman ● 79d

Did you have any luck yet Elizabeth.

Janice Evans ● 81d

Surprised no one has recommended Jason Sykes on the corner of CHR and Turnham Green Terrace above the photo shop. He has a website & other clinics.  He always sends you off for an X ray first.  In all my 40 odd years of trying various Chiropractors, physios, Osteopaths, he is the first I've met who did that which seems basic common sense. I have to say he tried very hard to cure my aching back but had to admit defeat in the end, I have a misplaced vertebrae, but it seems it has now been out of place too long and is stuck. I was impressed with him, he went out of his way to help me and was determined to succeed. He did cure my hand. I thought I had carpel tunnel syndrome but it was a trapped nerve in my neck. He also cured my headaches, also trapped nerve in my neck. Try him you have nothing to lose.

V Killick ● 81d

If you need rehabilitation with Pilates I can certainly help . Feel free to call me 07947422177 . With warm wishes Gaby

Gabriella Newbold ● 96d

I used to have quite a few problems but (touch wood) have been OK for years.  I found that Pilates was the answer to strengthen core muscles. It was recommended by the Consultant at the hospital after I had a fall playing badminton. The big trouble is getting yourself past the point where either you can't move or have to keep moving in order to beat/walk through the incoming spasms.  I became so desperate at one point I would have taken myself off a bridge. Once in a blue moon now I twist or do something and end up sitting on a hot water bottle until the tightness disappears.  I've found sleep helps... if you can. Unfortunately I can't say that I am so good at doing the Pilates now as once my teacher left and the next one kept giving warnings to "not do this one and not do that one if..." the satisfaction gained from the exercise disappeared - but we make sure we go for a walk every day and this seems to help.Once after spending weeks sweeping everything on the floor into a pile so I only had to bend down once I did the gentle Pilates floor exercise where you lie flat with knees up, take a breath and then try and push your spine starting with your neck into the floor vertebra by vertebra and breathing out I was greeted by a crunch that made me hold my breath but when I got up everything seemed to be back in place.  I'd previously spent years with a system of rolling over onto one side in order to stand up to get out of bed.A physio managed to sort out a frozen shoulder I'd had for months after doing something silly by just putting pressure on the muscles in the right place. The GP was absolutely no help at all with that one.Good luck Elizabeth and fingers crossed you find your answer.

Philippa Bond ● 96d

It's been 5 years since I see a doctor, it took six months waiting for some iron tablets.

Janice Evans ● 96d

If all else fails, have you tried faith healing.

Janice Evans ● 96d

Elizabeth, you have my sympathy.My wife suffers 24/7 from agonizing back pain. She has had this condition for the last 20 years, and beyond; she has seen many a willing chiropractor over the years, lives on pain killers "just to get by", and no doctor has ever come up with a magic bullet.A Falls physician recently referred her, through her Dr to undergo a back scan which she had last week. It turned out she had a scan for bone density which she has had before.Results ready in 2 weeks. My wife is not hopeful.Just to reiterate Elizabeth, your predicament has my sympathy along with many of your friends and family I am sure.

Denis I. Fox ● 96d

Try Sheen Rd Chiropractor. Dr Camilla fixed my long term disc issue in a few visits. She has an online offer for new patients. My GP refused to refer me to an Osteopath while only offering me a myriad of painkillers and useless physiotherapy. I grew up in Canada where Chiropractic is a well respected alternative.

Alexander Allan ● 96d

When pain relief and exercise fails (we always try) my husband and I have always turned to Mikel Porath at Optimal Pine on Devonshire Road

Liz Hagerty ● 96d

Thank you all for your responses. Gels and pills aren’t solving the problem.  Physio massages are temporary relief and lovely and prescribed exercises aren’t curing the pain either.  I have spent a great deal of money on physio twice a week and there is definitely a misalignment of spine and pelvis following a slip fall.I haven’t contacted my GP practice as my experiences over the last few years have been so dispiriting and it has been more than 5 years since I last got a face to face appointment.  How do you demonstrate the pain you are in over a telephone?Self help whether seeking advice or paying for surgery is the way to go but ridiculously expensive.

Elizabeth Ross ● 96d

Laurie Lunay - practices at the Hogarth Health Club. I have found her to be very good.

Sandra Taylor ● 96d

Pain killers are great if it's a temporary problem e.g. if you've sprained yourself.But for something long term, painkillers just mask a problem that you need to get sorted, and start becoming a problem themselves.

Andrew Jones ● 97d

We were always advised to reach for the paracetamol but that is now being more heavily questioned and not just because of the problems of taking too many.  It certainly helps to be able to relax as when you struggle with the pain in one place you can end up hurting yourself somewhere else as you strain to avoid using the initial painful joint etc.

Philippa Bond ● 97d

Have you tried hot and cold, ice pack and hot water bottle alternate every 10 minutes for 40 minutes that often works for me

Janice Evans ● 98d

Don't forget that chiropractic is alternative therapy, and that much of it is complete nonsense, and perhaps even dangerous.And that when people criticize it, the chiropractors can't come up with any arguments to defend themselves, so instead just try and sue people to shut them up (google chiropractors vs simon singh, which the chiropractors lost in court).You might want to try physiotherapy or osteopathy instead, which are evidence based.

Simon Pedley ● 98d