Chiro London Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Travis is a super principled chiropractor who started his career studying philosophy and engineering. He tells his story of how he found chiropractic and how he evolved his path from one struggling clinic in Holland to now over 10 thriving practices. We deep dive into some chiropractic philosophy and he shares how he keeps his clinics principled while keeping the ethos a free and...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you Melissa and the UCA crew for pushing me out of my comfort zone and encouraging me to give a 30 minute presentation at the October 2022 Chiropractic Essentials conference held in Birmingham. This is a recording of my 30 min slot with some pre and post comments about the talk.  My presentation covered 5 areas  Time: turning 50 and gaining perspective on time passing Healin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Craig Mclean hosts Dr Elle Cafra, our fab chiropractor in Marylebone, who joined us on the pod just before Christmas 2022. Elle is from Melbourne, Australia but she worked for 4 years in Craig's home town as a chiropractor so they have a bit to catch up on.  Differences in health care between the UK and Aus Chiro life in a rural Australian town vs central Lond...

Send us Fan Mail We wanted to introduce the first year chiropractic students at London South Bank University to the founding principles of chiropractic philosophy. This is a recording of the chat we had with a small group of them in a cafe in Putney.  We covered the difference between chiro, osteo and physio. We introduce them to the concept of innate intelligence and healing, the vertebral sublux...

Send us Fan Mail Jake Cooke, a chiropractor with a Masters in Musculoskeletal Neuroscience reminds me about the mechanics and neurology behind how a chiropractic adjustment works. Spoiler alert, this is how... - resetting and stimulating mechanoreceptors - resetting muscle spindles of intrinsic spinal muscles  - proprioceptor input centrally  - improvements to cerebellum function  - anti-inflammat...

Send us Fan Mail Kate literally had no idea I was about to record a conversation with her as we drove to the Lions of Chiropractic seminar together.  I promised to not do any karaoke but half way through we were joined by Fleetwood Mac and ended the chat with some Boni Jovi.  Had loads of fun making this, enjoy! Kate joined us 4 years ago and at her interview knew nothing about chiropractic, 4 yea...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is one for chiropractors and chiropractic assistants equally. Vismai agreed to allow us to record an in house training session for twenty members of our team held at Putney Chiropractic. Over the course of the 3 hour session we work through ways to better engage with our clients both as chiropractors and CAs. The better we care for our clients the more likely they are...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Alex Williams our sports rehab therapist from our Richmond clinic. He's been with us for over 5 years and provides a great service complementing our chiropractic care. Find out more about what is a sports rehabilitator, what's the difference between massage therapy, sports rehabilitation therapy and physiotherapy. Enjoy! Instagram @chirolondonpod

Send us Fan Mail Mac and I sat on the bed at the end of a 7 day training camp in Mallorca. We discuss how you can improve your performance on a bike by measuring your efforts - firstly just with heart rate analysis, then with the aid of a powermeter. It starts as a novice guide and evolves into helping the more experienced bike athlete.  Mac has been a coach at TrainSharp for years and has helped...

Send us Fan Mail Greg Sendell, I've known for years, but I never really understood the journey he was on attempting to conquer the UTMB, the 172 km (with 10,000 of altitude gain) non stop lap of Mt Blanc in Chamonix. He took the time to chat with me piecing together the mission it was to prepare his body and mind for such a massive event.  He covers training, preparation events, alternate exe...

Send us Fan Mail Lovely to chat with @dr.amichiro two years after she was our first guest on @chirolondonpod Ami is a chiropractor who loves helping your whole family.  Since we first had her on, she has become an @instagram chiro star on the account she grew from scratch - mainly as a way of keeping in touch with her tribe during a pandemic.  Listen in for ideas for your own social media accounts...

Send us Fan Mail Martine Beswick starred in both the 1963 Bond: From Russia With Love and the 1965 Bond: Thunderball. I'm happy to say she is still a Bond fan and she has quite some insight into life when the Bond franchise was hitting it's peak. Enjoy our chat, we cover Bond movies, her Hammer movies (she was a scream queen also) and how she has kept so healthy and well into her now 80s...

Send us Fan Mail I first met Amin Momen of Momentum ski around 15 years ago, brought together by my love for skiing and his cool event the city ski championships. Amin moved his business to Putney only months before the lockdowns and travel bans started, it was a tough time for him and his business and he talks us through how he coped - diversifying, doing lockdown DJ sessions online on a Friday n...

Send us Fan Mail Grow old. Get fast. Don't die. In Phil's words, the Midlife Cyclist's author, these three things encapsulates exactly what the book is about. We are living as the first generation of human beings who have exercised heavily after the age of 40. The book looks into the effect of exercise on our heart, hormones and musculoskeletal system. We evolve some ideas of how to...

Send us Fan Mail We had a chat to Tom MacKay in episode 56 about marathon preparation and what you have to do to aim for a sub 2:30 marathon time. 8 days ago he ran the London marathon and we hear how his race went. Did he manage to achieve his target, how did he perform on the day, what is next in the future. Enjoy Instagram @chirolondonpod

Send us Fan Mail Thanks Tom for taking the time to share your thoughts and words about your journey with endurance and marathon running. Well done on the 1:10 London 'Big Half' half marathon and good luck with your quest of a sub 2:30 marathon at the delayed October London Marathon.  We cover running, training, pacing, preparation and kit (especially shoes). Tom's a regular on the c...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Wilf, 27 years old who's back pain it turned out was the result of Hodgkins lymphoma. A journey that took over a year to diagnose, including a visit to me at Putney Chiro. We walk through his journey including 12 weeks of intensive chemotherapy, hair falling out and concerns he may never make it through. I spoke to him in July 2021 and his chemo started January 2021. Tha...

Send us Fan Mail Profeet and Chiro London have had a 20 year relationship, back to  when they opened in 2001. In this episode we meet Profeet's founder Shula who gives us some background into how and when she and her late husband Hamish started the business. Then I head over to the store in Fulham, SW London, UK and do an in-shop interview with Tom their lead running tech. We cover basic prob...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in to experience whats it's like to dedicate yourself for over 30 years to become a master of Hapkido, a Korean martial art. Hapkido is a non competitive martial art focusing on throws, kicks and punches, pressure point techniques blended with meditation. If that's not enough, she is also the founder of the Women's Sport Trust , a charity promoting elite wome...

Send us Fan Mail Mitch, as he is known, is a rugby stalwart, having played 130+ first division games for Waikato NZ, when it was a semi pro environment, he coached the All Blacks in 2001-3, coached in South Africa and USA and now is the assistance coach for England alongside Eddie Jones.  He's a lovely bloke who was kind enough to share his thoughts on performance, recovery and chiropractic,...

Send us Fan Mail Matt is Head of Physical Therapy with EF Pro Cycling team & travels with them to races all over the world including the Tour de France. He's been to 13 Tours de France, he's been with Slipstream and Jonathan Vaughters for 13 years, through all its variations, Garmin, Cervelo, Cannondale and now EF. He describes a typical day at the TdF and how the riders interact wit...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to episode 50! Dr Guy Riekeman, we catch up with him from Detroit, Michigan although I thought he was going to be in Puerto Rico his second home, long story. Guy studied chiropractic at Palmer College in the 1970's,  ran a chiropractic research and coaching company helping 7000 chiropractors worldwide. He then paused for 4 years on the beach and was a bum in Cali...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in if you are a (current or new) chiropractic patient who is wondering if a spinal x-ray would be appropriate for you. Meet Dr Sarah Burnett, musculoskeletal radiologist who we have worked with since 2009. Find her on twitter @radiodrsarah  We cover the risks vs the benefits of having an x-ray. Chiropractors have a listen, especially later in the episode as we discuss the G...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Flemyng, actor, podcaster, philanthropist - takes some time to chat with us. He has quite a few tales to tell about his acting career, we start with the movies Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, we then hear about his fellow actors Statham, Brad Pitt and Sean Connery (does a great Connery impersonation). We then roll into some stories from the cocaine days and sw...

Send us Fan Mail If you are wondering what is involved when visiting any of our clinics for the first time, listen in to our co-founders Craig McLean and Luke Brady as they take you on the journey from the moment you pick up the phone and book in to when you start care and beyond. We explain what happens on the first visit, will you get treatment on visit one, what examinations are done, do you ne...