Claudio Merkier | Chiropractor

Claudio Merkier
Doctor of Chiropractic 
Sports & Exercise Rehabilitation
BEd BSc DC CCEP ICSC MSc (Sports Rehab) FRCC (Sports)



GCC Reg no: 00667
 
 
Claudio is a qualified Chiropractor with more than 20 years of experience available for consultations in the City of London and in Friern Barnet North London. He is a registered health provider with many private medical insurance such as AXA, BUPA, VITALITY, AVIVA, CIGNA, WPA, SIMPLY HEALTH, STANDARD LIFE, ALLIANZ CARE, and HEALIX HEALTH SERVICES. He has been a registered chiropractor since the year 2000 with the General Chiropractic Council, which is part of the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care.
 
Claudio Merkier DC Fellow Royal College of Chiropractors Claudio is a "Specialist Fellow" from the Royal College of Chiropractors Sports Faculty UK (RCCSF) and a member of the Public Health Society. Also, He is a registered provider trainer at the RCC, the UK’s Graduate Education Programme for recently qualified chiropractors, where each graduate is partnered with a recognised mentor.
 
 
Claudio has a special interest in sports chiropractic clinical research. Since 2018, He has been studying and researching the Role of Chiropractic and Manual Therapies in Older Master Track and Field Athletes in preparation for a Competition at London South Bank University through a Professional Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Health and Social Care. His research study has been registered at ISRCTN and the Open Science Framework.
 

More recently, he has received the 2023 FICS poster award 1st prize. for presenting the Phase I results of his research titled "Older Master Track and Field Perceptions of Chiropractic Care and Manual Therapies: Outcomes of a Cross-Sectional Survey". This research provides:  A valuable insight into the benefits of chiropractic care for sports injuries and contributes to the academic discourse in Sports Chiropractic.  Also, this study received a first prize winner for "Original Research" at the 2024 Abstract for Clinical Evidence at the Parkers Seminars.



Claudio has been involved with the LSBU  Integrated Masters in Chiropractic program as a clinical tutor and supervisor for last year's students at the chiropractic teaching clinic and provides placements to the students with the clinical expertise needed as future clinicians for the chiropractic profession.
 
Claudio holds an MSc in Sports and Exercise Rehabilitation with Merit (2011) from St Mary's University College in Twickenham, Middlesex, and his research dissertation about the short-term effects of manipulation on acceleration, velocity, and flexibility in rugby union players was published in the "Clinical Chiropractic” journal. Also during 2014-15, he assisted in investigating neck function and its effects on the Cervical Range of Motion in rugby players at the Clinical Technology & Diagnostics Research Unit at the University of South Wales with the London Broncos Rugby League team. In 2015, Claudio was introduced to the Prague Rehabilitation School to study in the Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilisation Post Graduate Certified Practitioner Programme.
 
Claudio is a 1997 graduate of the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC) with a special interest in the management of musculoskeletal conditions, particularly back pain and neck pain, but also he has vast experience dealing with sports injuries, prevention, recovery from play, performance enhancement,  and exercise rehabilitation.

Since 1998 he has been a full member of the 
British Chiropractic Association (BCA), and Doctor of Chiropractic in 2002 as defined by the Council on Chiropractic Education International by the European Chiropractors' Union Board of Education. In 2009, he was given Honorary Membership of the Israeli Sports Chiropractic Council for managing the 2009 World Maccabiah Rugby section. Claudio is a full member of the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (FICS) as well as a full member of the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM).
 
Claudio strongly believes in a partnership of care, sharing information, education, and decisions by empowering and supporting his clients to understand more about their spinal health, general well-being, and quality performance by helping them to help themselves. Please, read more for some of his advice for back pain & neck pain management.

 
  
Claudio has provided several consultancies as a team sports chiropractor and first aider. 

He has been part of the British Masters Medical Services since 2007 to help the GB Masters Athletics.  Also, He has been involved with  Rugby Clubs since 2005 with Borehamwood RFC, Finchley RFC, Middlesex County RFU, England Students RFU, Koru Kamikaze sevens, Maccabi GB Rugby, and Jamaica Rugby sevens (UK base).​
 
 
Claudio has been invited to be part of medical teams at various regional, national, and international events such as the Commonwealth Games (Birmingham 2022), IAAF World Athletics (London 2017), World Maccabi Games Rugby Union competition (2009, 2013, 2022)Olympic Games (London 2012), and various European and World Masters Track and Field Athletics Championships in Hungary (2010), USA (2011), Spain (2018), Italy (2019) and many indoors and outdoors national competitions in the UK. Also, He has been involved with Hockey for Heroes since 2016 and was part of the physical therapies at the World Masters Hockey Championships in 2012.
 
 
 
Claudio Merkier DC's additional qualifications:

• International Chiropractic Sports Science Diploma (ICSSD 2007), International Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner (ICCSP 2015), International Certificate in Sports Chiropractic (2022) from the 
Federation Internationale de Chiropratique du Sport
• Certified Extremity Chiropractic Practitioner (CCEP) from the Council of Extremity Adjusting (2004)
• Certified Functional Facial Taping Practitioner (FFTP) from the Ron Alexander Institute (2005)
• BEd in Physical Education and Postural Cultivation from the Zinman College at Wingate Institute of Sports and Physical Education (1991)

 
 
Should you wish to book an appointment with Chiropractor Claudio Merkier
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Guildhall Bank & Saint Paul Cheapside Barbican
Old street Cannon Street Moorgate & Liverpool St.

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