Understanding Cervical Somatosensory Tinnitus: When Your Neck Is the Source of That Ringing
If you're experiencing persistent ringing, buzzing, or other phantom sounds in your ears, you might be surprised to learn that the problem could...
Neck Problems Can Cause Ringing in Your Ears
Do you hear ringing, buzzing, or other sounds in your ears that aren't really there? You might think the problem is with your ears. But sometimes,...
Why Isn’t My Child Talking Yet? – A Look at Speech Delay Through the Lens of Upper Cervical Chiropractic
As parents, there’s nothing quite like hearing your child say “mama” or “dada” for the first time. It’s a milestone filled with joy, connection, and...
Indian Summer – Gabriel Suarez
Traveling to the other side of the world to serve a new community through Chiropractic was an unforgettable experience. From the moment I arrived, I...
Chiropractic in the Community: India, June 2025
On the 15th of June, a team of 2 chiropractors and 4 chiropractic students headed to The Global Hospital in Mt Abu for the fifth time. This forms...
Why Should Your Child Get Checked By A Chiropractor?
The physical stress of the birthing process and delivery of a child can place significant pressure on a newborn’s delicate spine and nervous system....
Scotland’s First Upper Cervical Chiropractic Clinic: Welcome to Top Chiropractic Edinburgh!
After the success of our Top Chiropractic offices across the UK, we are proud to announce the launch of Top Chiropractic Edinburgh - bringing...
Functional Neurological Disorder
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a debilitating condition which for many patients is life changing. FND is described as a problem where the...
Development and Chiropractic
The way in which we develop physically and psychologically depends on the function of our nervous system. From the trauma of birth to the...
5 Ways to Feel Great this Winter
Are you looking for inspiration to feel healthy this Winter? Alongside chiropractic care, nutrition and lifestyle are essential to maintain a sense...
Headaches
"I get the normal number of headaches". "I get a couple of headaches a week, but they just go away". "Sometimes I have to take the day off work...
Posture
The way in which we carry ourselves is known as posture. This can be static, or dynamic. There are many contributing factors that influence the way...
Vertebral Subluxation
"A subluxation is the condition of a vertebra that has lost its proper juxtaposition with the one above or the one below or both; to an extent less...
The Spine and the Nervous System
The spine is the body's central support structure that connects different parts of our body together and allows us to move as one unit. It is...
Top Chiropractic Newcastle
Welcome Welcome to Top Chiropractic Newcastle, the only Upper Cervical clinic in the North of England. You can find us at i6 Charlottes Square,...
Serving the World through Chiropractic – India Mission Trip updates
Top Chiropractic India Mission Trip Updates In our offices we have been able to help many people across the UK and Europe through providing...
Why Is the Room Spinning?
The sensation of the room spinning, commonly known as vertigo, can be disorienting and frightening. Identifying the causes and finding effective...
Why Is My Child Experiencing Speech Delay?
Understanding Speech Delay and its Therapeutic Approaches. One of the most joyous moments as a parent is hearing your child's first words....
Why Knee-Chest Upper Cervical Chiropractic Dominates: A Clinic’s Decision
In the realm of 'Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care', various techniques exist, each with its own unique analysis and approach to spinal alignment and...
Infantile Colic and Upper Cervical Chiropractic
Infantile colic presents a perplexing challenge for parents and healthcare providers alike. As we delve deeper into understanding the potential...
Childhood Absence Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common condition that affects the brain and nervous system. Bursts of electrical activity in the brain temporarily affect how it works...
Understanding Your Nervous System!
The following blog will help unravel the science of the nervous system and touch on its deep connection with chiropractic care. What is the Nervous...
“Why the Upper Cervicals?” – 3 Reasons
One question commonly asked when considering Upper Cervical Chiropractic care is "Why the Upper Cervicals?". This article will present 3 reasons why...
Staying On Track During the Holiday Season
The holiday season is a time for joy and celebration, but it can also be a period of stress and deviation from our regular routines. Here's a guide...
A Patient’s Guide To Chiropractic Imaging
Clinical imaging has been a part of the Chiropractic profession since the early 20th century. Chiropractic was the first healthcare profession to...
Head Posture Webinar – A Window Into Your Nervous System
In the recording below, Dr. Luke talks all about head posture and how it impacts the nervous system. Press play to step up your knowledge of...
Blood Flow and the Brain
The brain is the most important organ in the body. Without it nothing else works. The job of the brain is to gather information from other organs...
Why Do Chiropractors Provide Maintenance Care?
Here at Top Chiropractic, most of our clients choose to continue with us on a monthly maintenance care schedule, following their initial phase of...
Cerebrospinal Fluid and Brain Health
What is Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)? Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, colourless, watery fluid that flows in and around your brain and spinal...
The Impact Of Digital Content On Your Child’s Nervous System
Recently, many of our clients have emphasized the profound impact of reducing high-stimulation TV and digital content on their children. At Top...
Upper Cervical Chiropractic Philosophy – A Principled Approach to Healthcare
The practice of Chiropractic has a rich history and is founded on a simple yet in-depth philosophy. This philosophy recognises the role of natural...
Top Chiro Charity Trip To India
Our charity trip to India began with a desire to help and give back to more people in the world. So when this opportunity to go to India came up, we...
What Is An Adjustment And What Has It Got To Do With Your Health?
'Adjustment' is a commonly used word in the Chiropractic world, but what does this actually mean? Is an adjustment simply making your back crack,...
The Vagus Nerve Webinar – Why We Measure It And How It Could Be Affecting You
In this webinar Dr. Luke talks all about the vagus nerve -- what it is, how it impacts one's health, how we measure its functioning via heart rate...
Chiropractic and Blood Pressure
Why Did My Blood Pressure Improve After Starting Chiropractic Care? Since the inception of Chiropractic over 100 years ago there have been reports...
The Upper Cervical Chiropractic Handbook: Patient Edition
Introduction Welcome to The Upper Cervical Chiropractic Patient's Handbook, designed to provide current and prospective patients with a...
What to Expect After Your 1st Chiropractic Adjustment: Understanding the Healing Process
Introduction An adjustment is a chiropractic procedure that aims to realign misaligned vertebrae by hand. Here at Top Chiro, we focus on adjusting...
The Role of the Upper Cervical Spine in Meniere’s Disease
Meniere's Disease is a disorder of the inner ear, patients with this diagnosis typically experience a feeling of fullness in the ears, tinnitus,...
Exploring the Potential Connection Between Long-COVID and the Brainstem
Introduction Recent research suggests a potential link between Long-COVID and the brainstem (Yong 2021). In this educational blog, we will delve...
The Neck
The neck - why people say it feels 'tight' As upper cervical chiropractors we deal with a small area which can have a huge impact on the whole body....
The Brainstem and The Upper Cervical Spine
The Brainstem The brainstem is a vital part of the central nervous system; it is responsible for regulating many of the functions and actions of the...
The Upper Cervical Spine and your Jaw!
The Upper Cervical Spine and The TMJ The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is a versatile joint, involved in many day-to-day functions such as speaking...
Whiplash! How your Chiropractor can help
Whiplash - Symptoms and Care Whiplash is a neck injury caused by a sudden forcible bending of the neck one way and then the other. This can...
Concussion – why you should see your chiropractor after a head trauma
Concussion is defined as.... ''Temporary unconsciousness or confusion caused by a blow to the head". The primary symptoms of concussion include...
Migraines and the Upper Cervical Spine
Types of Migraines and headaches There are many different types of migraines which all affect people in different ways. The most common factor is...
Pillars of Health and Upper Cervical Chiropractic!
What do we mean by Pillars of health and how does this tie in with Upper Cervical Chiropractic? February brings about an focus and awareness on our...
Everything you need to know about the Upper Cervical Adjustment
How do we differ from the chiropractic techniques you may have seen online? In the world of social media Chiropractic is becoming more and more...
Parkinson’s, A Neurological Disease
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominantly dopamine-producing neurons in a specific area of the brainstem...
Dystonia – How Upper Cervical Chiropractic can help
What is Dystonia? Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder that causes muscles to contract and spasm involuntarily, leading to repetitive and...
Craniocervical Instability (CCI) an Upper Cervical Problem
What is CCI and how does it develop? Craniocervical instability (CCI) is a pathological condition whereby there is an increased mobility at an area...
Postural-Perceptual Dizziness and Upper Cervical Care
Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness(PPPD) what is it? What Is PPPD? Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness ( PPPD) is a condition the...
What to expect during an appointment at Top Chiropractic
Your appointment with Top Chiropractic Before reading this blog make sure you've discovered how our intake process works for new clients, have a...
Epilepsy – a Central Nervous System Disorder
Epilepsy and our Central Nervous System (CNS) What is Epilepsy? Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder in which brain activity becomes...
Types of Stress and our body!
Types of stress Most times when we hear the word "stress" you might think of an emotional response, feeling frustrated or run down. However, this is...
Jaw problems and Upper Cervical Chiropractic
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is a versatile joint,located either side connecting your lower jaw to the skull. The TMJ is involved in many...
Upper Cervical Chiropractic and Ear Function
Misalignment and Ear Function As Upper Cervical Chiropractors, we commonly see the misalignment in the upper cervical spine creating vestibular...
Cervicogenic Headaches and Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care
Cervicogenic Headaches - what are they? A Cervicogenic headache, is a chronic headache that arises from the Atlanto-occipital and upper cervical...
Retracing and Upper Cervical Chiropractic
Retracing, what is it and what are the signs? Symptoms Of Retracing We know that the point at which patients feel symptoms isn't the start of their...
The Autonomic Nervous System and the regulation of health
The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) If you've read any of these blogs by now you'll know that Upper Cervical Chiropractic is inherently focused on...
What is the importance of symptoms when assessing health?
What is the importance of symptoms? A symptom is defined as a physical or mental feature which is regarded as indicating a condition of disease,...
The 3 types of stress and how they affect your body
3 Types of Stress.. Stress! Most times when we hear the word "stress" you might think of an emotional response, feeling frustrated or run down....
What happens at your Report of Findings at Top Chiropractic?
Your Report of Findings Now you've had your New Patient Consultation and any necessary clinical imaging, and you are eagerly awaiting your results....
What happens in your New Patient Consultation at Top Chiropractic London?
New Patient consultation - The process Before you come to see us in London most prospective patients will have spoken to one of our Chiropractors...
What is POTS?
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is the most common form of dysautonomia; this is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system which...
Health and Disease – A Chiropractic point of view
Health and Disease Humans have always experienced states of illness and disease since the beginning of our existence. It has often been wondered by...
Measures of Adaptability – Heart Rate Variability
How do we measure adaptability? Measuring heart function has long been used as an assessment of autonomic activity in the body. Heart rate is the...
Measures of Adaptability – Paraspinal Infrared Thermography
Paraspinal Infrared Thermography - what is it? Paraspinal Infrared Thermography is the primary measure of physiology and adaptation we use in our...
5 Signs of Life and the Importance of Adaptability
The 5 signs of life... Question.. What is the difference between an organism that is living and one which is dead? There comes a transitional moment...
Chiropractic and Mental health
Chiropractic and Mental Health: The impact on your psychological and emotional state According to Mind UK, "1 in 4 people will experience mental...
Holding your Adjustment – 3 Secrets to success!
Post adjustment Tips When patients start Chiropractic care with us one of the most common questions we get asked is how can I keep my adjustment...
Seizures – what you need to know…
Seizures and Upper Cervical Care Seizures are a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain causing temporary abnormalities in muscle...
Why the Upper Cervicals? C1 (Atlas) and C2 (Axis)
A closer look at the Upper Cervicals.. The most common questions we get as upper cervical specific chiropractors are "why the upper cervicals?"...
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and 3 areas to be aware of!
What is Heart Rate Variability? Heart rate variability HRV is simply a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat. When at rest, a...
Post Concussion Syndrome – spot the 4 most common signs now!
Post concussion, the signs, the symptoms and the evidence This occurs when the symptoms of concussion persist for 3 months or more after sustaining...
Chiropractic and Mental Health
Chiropractic and Mental health - The impact on your psychological and emotional state According to Mind UK, "1 in 4 people will experience mental...
Tinnitus: How Upper Cervical misalignments (C1 and C2) could be the cause
What is Tinnitus? Tinnitus is the conscious, usually unwanted perception of sound that arises or seems to arise involuntarily in the ear of the...
The Best Sports To Help Tackle Your Neck Pain
Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders , between 30% - 50% of people will suffer one or more episodes of neck pain during...
The Powerful 3: Vagus Nerve, Parasympathetics and Mental Health
Lets take a closer look at how the vagus nerve and our nervous system interact with our mental health.. In the modern world conditions such as...
5 Ways to Reduce the Symptoms of Headaches
5 Ways to Reduce the Symptoms of Headaches Helpful Ways to Reduce Headaches Everyone suffers from a headache from time to time. The main problem...
Cluster Headaches | Causes, Symptoms, Treatments
What are Cluster Headaches? Cluster headaches are excruciating attacks of pain in one side of the head, often felt around the eye. They...
Tips to Improve Back Pain in Pregnancy
Back Pain in Pregnancy Back pain during pregnancy is a widely occurring phenomenon. However, just because the majority of people feel lower back...
Early Signs of Parkinson’s
10 Early Signs of Parkinson's and Why You Should Get Checked Parkinson's Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting the neurons responsible...
What is Meniere’s Disease?
About Meniere's Disease Meniere's Disease is a condition affecting the inner ear, characterised by potentially severe and incapacitating episodes of...
How does the Upper Cervical Spine influence balance?
Balance and the Spine In our office we see many patients whose symptoms include balance issues. Sometimes this presents as vertigo, sometimes...
Parkinson’s and Head Trauma – is there a connection?
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominantly dopamine-producing neurons in a specific area of the brainstem called...
Types of Multiple Sclerosis
What is Multiple Sclerosis? Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease. This is a condition in which the body's immune system mistakes its own...
Bell’s Palsy and Chiropractic Treatment
Some of us may have heard of or seen someone with Bell's Palsy. This type of facial paralysis is very common, but what causes it? And can anything...
Neck Cracking: The Dangers, Risks, and Why You Should Stop
Self-manipulation, I.E cracking knuckles and joints, is becoming more and more common amongst people that we see in the office. Some people report...
Child Speech Delay – How Upper Cervical Chiropractic Can Help
What is child speech delay? Child speech delay is characterised by a child having difficulty understanding or using spoken language and it is...
What is Occipital Neuralgia and can Upper Cervical Chiropractic help?
Occipital neuralgia is a distinct type of headache characterised by piercing, throbbing, or electric-shock-like chronic pain in the upper neck, back...
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