Although chiropractors treat conditions that are not relate to the spine, the overwhelming majority of their patients seek chiropractic care for lower back or neck related conditions. Approximately 60-70% of all chiropractic patients suffer from lower back pain issues. These figures have not changed over the recent decades and what is really interesting about this Read More

Lower back pain is the most common condition seen by the chiropractors at the Broadgate Spine Centre. The majority of our patients work in financial services in our neighbouring area including Moorgate, Bank, Cannon Street, and Liverpool Street Station. Others come from different parts of the City of London. Most chiropractor patients with low back Read More

The Broadgate Spine & Joint Clinic was established as a chiropractic clinic over 20 years ago. During the past decade we have expanded the clinic in order to offer a true “one stop shop” for back and peripheral joint conditions. We have therefore added many other health disciplines including; general medicine, physiotherapy, rheumatology, spinal surgery, Read More

Neck pain is the most common physical ailment seen in City workers. This is likely due to the fact that the overwhelming majority of City workers carry out their tasks in constrained postures while sitting at a desk for long hours coupled with the hectic work tempo of financial services. A quick look at the Read More

At Broadgate Spine Centre, London we often get asked if patients can claim their fees back from their health insurance companies. For most patients the answer is yes. At Broadgate we have chiropractors and physiotherapists who are recognised by both Bupa and Axa PPP as well as all other health insurers. Bupa and Axa PPP Read More

It’s tennis season and at this time of year we seeing more low back problems from tennis.  Low back pain is common among tennis players and general there are two types of back injury, a sudden “injury” or gradual onset of stiffness and pain, usually increasing the more time that is spent playing. The first Read More

The Spine Centre at the University of Southern Denmark as developed a 9 question process that enables clinicians to identify patients who may suffer from lower back pain caused by Modic changes. If a patient’s response is YES to three or more questions, it is possible that they may have Modic changes. We advise you Read More

Modic changes have recently been receiving a lot of interest from the popular press. This is due to an MRI finding, having clinical importance, which had not previously been seen.  A high percentage of test subjects respond favourably to long term antibiotic treatment. This is significantly better than results of all other conventional treatments. The Read More

Modic changes can be seen on MRI Scans and are represented by inflammation/infection in the vertebral body adjacent to the disc – either above/below or both –  this happens with patients that have experienced a disc herniation. Sometimes the cause of the inflammation is bacterial while in others it is likely to be of mechanic Read More

MAST Certified Clinicians have undertaken an educational programme to teach them techniques in diagnosing and managing patients that show signs of Modic changes on MRI scans. In previous articles, we have already seen that Modic changes have been linked to lower back pain, and that MAST antibiotic treatment has been show to be effective in Read More