Function Chiropractic and Physiotherapy Clinic

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Function Chiropractic and Physiotherapy Clinic

Chiropractic is a safe, effective and evidence-based form of healthcare.

We are expertly trained in the diagnosis and treatment of neuromusculoskeletal conditions - this is nerves, muscles, joints and spine. Using a combination of techniques it is proven to help with headaches, migraines, disc issues, sprained ankles, sciatica and everything in between. And if manual therapy isn't the best option for you, then I can at least point you in the right direction. The focus

is always on the cause and correcting it from the roots up, rather than just brushing over the worst of it, or covering up your symptoms with medications. There are many techniques to use on various conditions, the most common types of treatment include:
-Chiropractic adjustments
-Activator therapy
-Dry needling
-Soft tissue release/massage therapy
-Functional training (rehab/stretches/exercises)

22/08/2026

In the 'any day now' stage now! 🤰

Thank you all so much for your support and wisdom and flexibility and wishes 🙏

POA:
🤳The app:
The app is live with our diaries so the first updates and availability will always be on there. We are working on getting it personalised which should happen in the next few weeks!

👐Chiropractic:
Jenny uses a very similar approach to me but as always, we each have our own little ways. If theres spinal, nerve or any complex cases then its a Jenny problem! Jen (Dr of Chiropractic) will assess, triage and diagnose and treat accordingly with traditional chiropractic, sacro-occipital technique, acupuncture, jaw/cranial, exercise prescription, biomechanics assessment, and more. Xrays and MRIs available.

🏃‍♂️Physiotherapy:
Sami is taking on new patients and as he's here Mon eve after hospital rounds, he's also booked up in advance so new patients expect a 3 week wait, but routine treatment are sooner. Sprains, strains and tendon injuries are his speciality. MRI referral available.

💆‍♀️Massage:
Sports, lymphatic and deep tissue massage is running as normal, and taking on new patients. Please remember that massage is INCREDIBLE for tense muscles, but massage therapists cannot clinically assess, test, scan or diagnose like chiropractors and physiotherapists.

📖Any admin queries:
Use the contact form on the website to go straight to our back of house admin (Natalie) or leave a message with reception on 01245 956721.

👩‍⚕️New Patients:
Use the contact form on the website to be added to our wait list. The earliest we're taking on new cases is Nov 2026, so these are more likely to be chronic and complex cases rather than an acute tweak or back sprain. We appreciate everyone that wants to wait, but if you need immediate assistance then we're not your guys (right now!).

I think thats everything 🤞

Happy healing ✨️

- Jess Kenney, DC Mchiro
- Doctor of Chiropractic and clinic owner

- This is not specific medical advice. Always speak to your clinician if you have any questions about your own case.
- Absolutely do not continue with any exercise that aggravates symptoms.
- All patients have consented to sharing any details

12/05/2026

Happier, healthier hips 💃🕺💃🕺

Our most common hip problems in clinic:
🔹️ GTPS
🔹 Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI)
🔹 Labral irritation
🔹 Hip flexor/adductor strain
🔹 Referred pain from lumbar spine/SIJ

Step 1 is ALWAYS diagnose first, and we have many steps, but its important to remember hip arthritis is quite low down on the list of hip areas and normally affects groin rather than the side/back.

Where is it?
✨️Groin = joint/cartilage/tendon/fluid
✨️Outer hip = gluteal tendons/bursa
✨️Buttock/posterior = spine/SIJ/hamstrings

For investigation and treatment on your hip, book in your Chiropractic consultation using the link in bio.

✨️ Happy healing ✨️

- Jess Kenney, DC Mchiro
- Doctor of Chiropractic and clinic owner

- This is not specific medical advice. Always speak to your clinician if you have any questions about your own case.
- Absolutely do not continue with any exercise that aggravates symptoms.
- All patients have consented to sharing any details

23/04/2026

"What am i going to do" questions coming in thick and fast!

A. You'll be fine, the team are wonderful and youre in safe hands!
B. Most people will aim to keep consistent care schedules with the other chiros, some people might get more massage, see how we go!

Im rising 21 weeks so weve still got time BUT the loose plan:

✨️ August will be size and pelvis and health dependent, but i am doing *everything* in my power to reduce likelihoods of a rough third trimester 😅
✨️ Sep ill be tired/recovering
✨️ Oct as above
✨️ From Nov/Dec I'll be filtering back in
✨️ Be a while before im full time back with patients
❌️ No new patients this year (sorry guys!)

I say loose becomes ultimately she might throw a spanner in the works, and best laid plans and all that!

By June time I should know a bit more certain plans but in the meantime 💁‍♀️

✨️ Happy healing ✨️

- Jess Kenney, DC Mchiro
- Doctor of Chiropractic and clinic owner

- This is not specific medical advice. Always speak to your clinician if you have any questions about your own case.
- Absolutely do not continue with any exercise that aggravates symptoms.
- All patients have consented to sharing any details

19/04/2026

Spicy hip syndrome 🌶

This used to be called trochanteric bursitis or tendinitis, but its usually a bit of both so its now GTPS.

Tendinitis is inflammation of the tendons in that area (glute med, min, tensor fascia lata).

Bursitis is inflammation of the bursa, fluid pockets between tendons that protect our bony bits. Theres no 'sac' as they dont have a lining,

Pain is over the outer aspect of the hip worse with walking, sitting for prolonged periods, and/or laying on it depending where most of your inflammation is.

We diagnose through:
✅️ Detailed case history
✅️ Assessment of the area
✅️ Assessment of associated joints
❌️ Scans not usually necessary

Risk factors: hypermobility, dysplasia, sitting for long periods, lower back issues, menopause, linear exercise

Treatment is to address leg and low back influences, relax associated muscles and then progressively load them so they get more resilient and bulletproof 💥

We dont tend to do scans straight away as its a pretty common and straightforward issue, and the scan doesnt change any treatment plan. We might consider a scan if it presents as secondary GTPS and we need to further investigate underlying triggers.

Differentials: Gluteal nerve irritation, underlying dysplasia, meralgia parasthetica

✨️ Happy healing ✨️

- Jess Kenney, DC Mchiro
- Doctor of Chiropractic and clinic owner

- This is not specific medical advice. Always speak to your clinician if you have any questions about your own case.
- Absolutely do not continue with any exercise that aggravates symptoms.
- All patients have consented to sharing any details

16/04/2026

The most common question I get with patients:
✅️ Over 25 years old
✅️ Pain somewhere around the hip

No panic or new hips needed though!
Its very rare that its arthritis, but most people do immediately think "oh no".

Hip *joint* will give groin pain but its a complex area with lots of criss crossing tissues so theres lots of issues that can come up, very rarely is it arthritis...

💃The more common conditions:

Outside of hip:
⚡️ GTPS - Greater trochanteric syndrome (new name for bursitis/tendinitis) ...🥇🥇🥇🥇 most common by a long way (more on slide 3 above...)
⚡️Referred pain from low back
⚡️ Meralgia parasthetica (lateral cutaneous nerve entrapment)
⚡️Hip dysplasia muscle compensation (less likely but leads to gtps so always assess gtps for dysplasia)
⚡️Calcific tendinitis (unlikely)

Back of hip:
⚡️Sacro iliac joints
⚡️Sciatic pain/piriformis syndrome
⚡️Joint effusion (fluid in the joint)

Front of hip/groin:
⚡️Femoral nerve entrapments
⚡️Hip flexor/quad attachment strain
⚡️Referred pain from lower abdomen
⚡️Labrum (cartilage) issues (tears, cysts)
⚡️Impingement syndrome
⚡️Inguinal hernia
⚡️Hip dysplasia
⚡️Joint effusion

Rare hip joint issues:
⚡️Stress fractures
⚡️Avascular necrosis
⚡️Pagets disease
⚡️Perthes disease

Its very rare we refer for imaging, but if needed then xray will show arthritis and MRI shows all the connective tissues, cartilage, fluid and more.

✨️ Happy healing ✨️

- Jess Kenney, DC Mchiro
- Doctor of Chiropractic and clinic owner

- This is not specific medical advice. Always speak to your clinician if you have any questions about your own case.
- Absolutely do not continue with any exercise that aggravates symptoms.
- All patients have consented to sharing any details

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03/04/2026

Sciatica ⚡️

Sciatica has a huge variation in symptoms as its a non specific term for 'irritation of sciatic nerve'.

If someone diagnoses 'sciatica' but not where its coming from then run 🏃‍♀️

If you have pain down the front of your leg, or goes up into your back and been told its sciatica, run 🏃‍♂️

If someone tells you a magic stretch for all sciatica, run 🏃‍♀️

The sciatic nerve has many triggers, and management needs to be specific to the cause, not just a blanket, one size fits all 'sciatica protocol'.

✨️ Happy healing ✨️

- Jess Kenney, DC Mchiro
- Doctor of Chiropractic and clinic owner

- This is not specific medical advice. Always speak to your clinician if you have any questions about your own case.
- Absolutely do not continue with any exercise that aggravates symptoms.
- All patients have consented to sharing any details

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02/04/2026

Healthy nervous systems are not always calm.

✨️Whilst it's great there's more talk about fight/flight and rest/relax, and the impact on our bodies, we also need to remember that fight/flight is not inherently bad.

🥷Fight/flight is our body ramping up for being busy, getting stuff done and digging into reserves to produce power for whats to come.

A healthy nervous system will go into fight/flight and tense up.

But it comes back down to recover.

There are times to honour the chaos.
There are times to honour zen.

Most people are having a healthy response to their environment or experiences.

Clock watching, living in anticipation, stiff upper lip, overbearing people, isolated family, lack of varied movement, clean air, processed food, poor sleep, previous experiences etc are all valud reasons for your nervous system to be activated.

The long term answer to this is not cbd, magnesium, deep breathing or a holiday (or a massage or adjustment). Might take the edge off but it wont last forever.

Its usually addressing:

A. The amount youre asking of it.

B. The reasons why youre asking so much

C. Allowing some energy OUT not pushing it deeper in.

- not specific medical advice, please see your practitioner for individual advice.

20/03/2026

Tap to pause ⏸️

16 weeks pregnant and my SI joints, hips and low back are needing more but adapted TLC.

So im making choices 3rd trimester me will be grateful for 🤰

Lizard crawls are great for hypermobile hips and pelvis BUT itll feel better if youve strengthened and learnt about wrist loading, and its hard so it took me a while to get here.

Running and squats can still be great but as Im hypermobile anyway, they are too linear (single plane) and I need more dynamic control and proprioception than that.

Why train? Im high risk for pelvic girdle pain (PGP) and i will not be going down easy ❌️💪❌️💪

Plus the thought of birth gives me the wiggins so I will do everything in my power for an easier birth and reduced tearing!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Happy healing ✨️

Jess
- Dr of Chiropractic

15/03/2026

Surprise! 🤰

Or as a few of you have said "I KNEW IT", maybe not *such* a surprise.

Coming up 16 weeks, due 1st Sep, she's a girl, i did not first trimester well and feeling much better! Just a bit sleepy and having to do more stability training as these hypermobile pelvic joints already have a mind of their own.

Shes 12 cm head to ass, plus little leggies. I can feel little flutters, no weird cravings but blood sugar highs/lows hit different.

Complete Maternity leave is obviously not an option for me but will keep everyone posted 🌟

This is technically my 4th 2025 pregnancy so we're just taking each week as it comes. The duality of pregnancy after loss is that yes its exciting but it does come with a slight undertone of lingering dread.

But on the bright side of repeating first trimester several times, I do have a bunch of 'how to effectively manage morning sickness' protocols and advice!

Happy mothers day to every woman whos tried to carry, has partially carried, whos carried them here, or whos raised them 🤍

Lots of love,

Jess

14/03/2026

Who we are 🌟

We are a team of 6 people, different professions, to help you get the most out of your body.

🤕Yes we can help with injury and and pain, but we want to give you more than that.

💪We want you feeling resilient, feeling in control of your body, to understand it, to know youve got the tools to look after your body now, and in 10 years.

💃We want you to find joy in movement. To not have a shadow of doubt at the back of your mind if youre capable of doing something.

Yes to:
😬 Reduce pain (but thats a given)
🌱 Growth and development
💃 Feeling alive

No to feeling like:
🧟‍♀️ Death warmed up
🧓 90 year old body
😥 Overwhelmed with pain
👭 Dreading social events because itll hurt too much

We want you feeling free, feeling like you trust your body, feeling like you're excited to see what it can do, to push boundaries.

Chiropractic.
Physiotherapy.
Massage.
Strength and Conditioning.

Booking through link in bio 🌟

Happy healing ✨️

- Jess Kenney, DC Mchiro
- Doctor of Chiropractic and clinic owner

- This is not specific medical advice. Always speak to your clinician if you have any questions about your own case.

Address

Tylers Ride
Woodham
CM35XD

Website

http://www.functionchiropractic.co.uk/

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