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Assessment-led spinal care
Firstlight Verge is a chiropractic clinic for people who want to understand their own back, not just be told to come back on Thursday. Every course of care starts with a 45-minute assessment and a plain-English explanation of what we found.
Treatment hours
Mon–Thu 07:30–18:00 · Fri 07:30–13:00
Appointment lengths
First assessment 45 min · follow-up 20 min
Referrals
No referral needed to book an assessment
Start with the complaint
Chiropractic care is not one treatment applied to everyone. Find the description closest to your situation — it tells you what we assess first and who the approach tends to suit.
Episodes that settle in a week or two and then come back every few months, often after lifting, long drives or a change in training load.
Stiffness that builds through the afternoon, a tight band across the shoulders, and a neck that feels better on holiday than on Wednesday.
Pressure that rises from the neck into the temples, often with a stiff upper neck and sensitivity to screen glare or jaw clenching.
Discomfort travelling from the buttock into the thigh or calf, sometimes worse when sitting, sometimes worse after standing still.
Pelvic and low back discomfort through later pregnancy, and the lifting, feeding and carrying loads that follow in the first year.
A stiff thoracic spine limiting overhead work, a grumbling hip on longer runs, or a mid-season drop in rotation and reach.
How care runs here
You will know the plan, the expected number of visits and the review point before any treatment begins. If the plan stops working, we change it rather than repeat it.
History, movement testing, neurological screening where relevant, and the practical details: your work, sleep position and training week.
What we found, what it means, what we can help with and what we cannot. You leave with the plan written down, including the review date.
Adjustments and soft-tissue work paired with two or three exercises you will actually do. Visits are spaced out as symptoms settle.
We re-test the measures from day one. If you are where we expected, care ends or moves to occasional check-ins by your choice.
What an adjustment is
The right technique depends on the joint, your comfort and your medical history — not on habit. You can ask for a lower-force option at any visit and it will not change the plan.
A quick, shallow, hands-on movement applied to a specific joint to restore its range. The most common choice for a stiff mid-back or a restricted lumbar segment.
You may hear a pop. That is gas moving in the joint fluid, not bone on bone.
A small spring-loaded instrument delivers a measured impulse without any twisting. Used for necks, osteoporosis, later pregnancy and anyone who would rather not be rotated.
It feels like a firm tap. No stretch, no sound, no sudden movement.
Sustained pressure, slow joint glides and assisted stretching, usually to calm a region before a joint will tolerate anything faster.
A deep, workable ache during, and a looser region for a day or two after.
Your first visit
Nothing in the first appointment is a surprise. Here is the order it runs in, so you can decide whether it suits you before you book.
What happened, what you have already tried, and what you want to get back to doing without thinking about it.
Posture, active and passive movement, orthopaedic tests and, where symptoms call for it, reflex and sensation checks.
Which joints are restricted, which tissues are irritable, and whether chiropractic care is the right starting point at all.
If appropriate, a first adjustment on the day, plus two exercises and a written plan with a review date on it.
Before you book
If your question is not here, write it in the notes field of the booking request and we will answer it before the appointment rather than during it.
Request a visit
Send the form and we will come back with two or three specific times that fit the window you chose. Nothing is confirmed until you reply to accept one.