Claudio Merkier | Chiropractor | Chiropractic

Claudio Merkier | Chiropractor

  Claudio Merkier
Doctor of Chiropractic
  Royal College of Chiropractors Specialist Fellow
  Doctorate in Professional Practice
BEd BSc DC CCEP ICSC MSc (Sports Rehab) FRCC (Sports) FRCC (Ed) DProf (Sports Chiro)

GCC Reg no: 00667

Claudio is the director of Chiro-Practice, and he is a qualified Chiropractor with more than 25 years of experience available for consultations in the City of London and Friern Barnet, North London. He is a registered health provider with many private medical insurance companies, such as AXA, Bupa, Vitality, Aviva, Cigna, WPA, Simply Health, Standard Life, Allianz Care, and Healix. He has been a registered chiropractor since 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 and Education faculties in the UK. Additionally, he is a registered provider trainer at the RCC, the UK’s Graduate Education Programme for recently qualified chiropractors, where each graduate is paired with a recognised mentor.

Claudio possesses a keen interest in clinical research in sports chiropractic care. He has investigated the perception and impact of sports chiropractic on master athletes aged over 60. He focused on track and field and master's level athletics while pursuing a Doctorate in Professional Practice (Sports Chiropractic) at London South Bank University.

Also, he has actively participated in the LSBU Integrated Masters in Chiropractic program as a clinical tutor and supervisor for the final-year interns at the chiropractic teaching clinic, offering them the essential clinical knowledge required for their future roles as practitioners in the chiropractic field.

Claudio's Professional Doctorate research thesis has been performed in three sequential phases. His study has been prospectively registered in the Open Science Framework, and its first phase has received the 2023 FICS 1st prize award in Paris and the 2024 prize winner for "Original Research" at the Abstract for Clinical Evidence at the Parker Seminars in Las Vegas. This Phase of his research was a survey about the Older Master Track and Field Perceptions of Chiropractic Care and Manual Therapies in the UK. This research provided a valuable insight into the benefits of chiropractic care for sports injuries and contributed to the academic discourse in Sports Chiropractic.

Also, the second phase of his research has been registered at the UK ISRCTN Clinical Trials, which was about a Feasibility trial of the effects of chiropractic care on sports performance and its short-term impact on strength and coordination in older track and field athletes. Finally, the third phase has been published as an abstract in the Journal of Contemporary Chiropractic and was about the UK aged 60+ athletes’ perceptions and experiences of pre-competition sports chiropractic care on sports performance, with some of the athletes from the second phase of the research.

Before starting his Doctorate, Claudio completed 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), validated by the University of Portsmouth (BSc). He has a special interest in the management of musculoskeletal conditions, particularly back pain and neck pain, but also 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 a 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) and a member of its Research Commission.

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 consultations as a team sports chiropractor and first-aider.

He has been part of the British Masters Medical Services since 2007, supporting GB Masters Athletics. Claudio has been supporting the British master athletes at various European and World Masters Track and Field Athletics Championships in Hungary (2010), USA (2011), Spain (2018), Italy (2019), Portugal (2025), and many indoor and outdoor national competitions in the UK.

Claudio has been involved with Rugby Clubs since 2005 with Borehamwood RFC, Finchley RFC, Middlesex County RFU, England Students RFU, and Maccabi GB Rugby. Also, he 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), and Olympic Games (London 2012).

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)

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