Chiropractic care · about 7 minutes from St Leonards
Chiropractor for St Leonards, Dorset
Gentle, instrument-assisted treatment for back, hip, neck, joint, muscle and nerve pain. We are in Verwood, about seven minutes away — the nearer end of the run between here and Ringwood.
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Conditions
What we treat for St Leonards patients
Back Pain
Stiff first thing in the morning. Worse after sitting, or after a long drive. The ache that settles for a few weeks and then comes back. Pain that spreads into the buttock or down the leg.
Learn more 02Knee Pain
Pain at the front of the knee going down stairs. Aching after standing for a while. Stiffness getting going in the morning. Osteoarthritis and patellofemoral pain.
Learn more 03Sciatica
Pain running from the lower back into the buttock, thigh or calf. Pins and needles or numbness. A leg that feels weak or heavy. Often worse sitting or standing still for long periods of time.
Learn more 04Neck Pain
Stiffness turning your head. An ache across the shoulders by the end of a day at a screen. Headaches that start at the base of the skull. Tingling or numbness down the arm.
Learn more 05Sports Injuries
The same minor injury that keeps returning to the same spot. Niggles that flare whenever you increase your training. Common in runners, footballers and golfers.
Learn more 06Shoulder Pain
Trouble reaching overhead, or behind your back. Pain when you lie on that side at night. Rotator cuff problems, impingement, and shoulder pain that is actually coming from the neck.
Learn more 07Hip Pain
Pain in the groin or on the outside of the hip. Stiffness after sitting. Trouble with stairs, or with shoes and socks. An ache that wakes you when you lie on that side.
Learn moreChiropractic care for St Leonards
Our chiropractic clinic is in Verwood, about three and a half miles from St Leonards and roughly seven minutes by road. We are not in St Leonards itself, and we say so plainly rather than implying a presence we do not have.
St Leonards and St Ives sit between Verwood and Ringwood, with a combined population of around 6,000 and no chiropractor of their own. That position is useful: we are the closer option in one direction, and the Ringwood clinics are the further one in the other.
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We treat back pain, sciatica, neck and shoulder problems, hip and knee pain and minor sports injuries, using very small instrument-assisted adjustments rather than forceful manipulation.
Everything found at your examination is measured and written down, so your second appointment starts from a record rather than from memory. The Foundation Phase is four treatments over two to four weeks, with a compulsory review at the fourth.
The first step is a free 15-minute assessment. It exists so that nobody pays for treatment before we have told them honestly whether we expect it to work.
Getting here
About 7 minutes from St Leonards
Where we are
Bank Court, 12 Manor Road, Verwood, BH31 6DY. Roughly 3.5 miles from St Leonards, on the Verwood side of the village.
Parking
There is parking at Bank Court, which is simpler than the Ringwood town-centre alternative.
Getting seen
No referral and no waiting list. Appointments are usually available the same week.
What makes this easier/comfortable from what you have tried before
Not because the profession is different, but because of how this clinic works — measured findings, a defined course, and a known cost.
No exercise programme to take home
You will not leave with a sheet of exercises to get through. That is deliberate. We steady the joint first.
Precise, instrument-assisted adjustments
Adjustments are made with instruments rather than purely by hand to make it more comfortable and easy for you. Very small, measured movements to one specific joint, and nothing else which makes rapid response more likely in our experience. The attention to detail is the point.
The same protocols, whoever you see
Every practitioner at the clinic follows the same documented protocols. What you get does not depend on which clinician you happen to be booked with.
Short appointments, and few of them
Treatments are 15 minutes. Most people are managed with occasional appointments once the initial course is done, rather than an open-ended weekly commitment.
Our mandatory review
Every course has a compulsory review at the fourth appointment
We have always done this. At your fourth appointment we look at whether your pain has eased, whether you can do more, or both.
If nothing has changed, we refer you for further clinical investigation rather than carry on treating.
85%
of patients did not need further clinical investigation at their review
4
treatments in the Foundation Phase, including the review. A defined course, not an open-ended plan.
64%
had already tried other therapies before they came to us
Almost70%
came to us with back pain. It is what we deal with day in, day out.
From the clinic's own audit of the last 100 patients who completed the Foundation Phase.
The adjustment
Gentle, considered care
Every adjustment is made with instruments, which lets us put a small, controlled amount of movement into one specific joint therefore being very precise and repeatable. That precision is the point: and attention to details gives the best result in our experience. We have found this delivers the most comfortable, considered, easy and rapid response. When you are treated, you either lay flat face down or stay sitting upright, fully clothed, and each step is explained before it happens.
Why Frameworks
A unified technique developed over 32 years
Frameworks Clinic was started by Dr David Eldridge, who trained as a physiotherapist before qualifying as a chiropractor and spent years working in elite sport. Every clinician follows the same written protocols, so the method does not change with the practitioner.
Dr David Eldridge
Founder, 32 years in practice
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David trained as a physiotherapist before he qualified as a chiropractor. He built the method the clinic runs on, and spent years working in elite sport. He still treats patients in his consultancy clinics and chairs the advisory Board. BSc Chiropractic, Doctor of Chiropractic, GCC registered (No. 00206). Member of the Royal College of Chiropractors and the British Chiropractic Association.
Dr Joe Sanyal
Clinic lead practitioner
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Joe runs the day-to-day clinical work and is who you are most likely to be booked in with. He was treated by David as a teenager, which is what inspired him into chiropractic. Before seeing patients independently, he benefited from the rare opportunity to observe hundreds of cases alongside David. While most practitioners gain experience primarily through treating their own patients, this extensive period of observation allowed him to develop a remarkably detailed understanding of the Frameworks approach and its practical application. GCC registered (No. 06124), and a member of the British Chiropractic Association. Before seeing patients independently, he benefited from the rare opportunity to observe hundreds of cases alongside David. While most practitioners gain experience primarily through treating their own patients, this extensive period of observation allowed him to develop a remarkably detailed understanding of the Frameworks approach and its practical application.
Dr Chris Batty
Advisory Board, orthopaedic and MSK medicine
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A GP specialising in orthopaedics and MSK conditions, who met David on the Sports Medicine Masters course. He is the longest-serving doctor in the football league and the current medic for a Championship club. He referred patients to the clinic because of the reliability of the results.
Paul Maxwell-Bown
Advisory Board, mental health and wellbeing
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A mental health specialist whose work on the Board covers the psychological toll of long-term joint pain, and the effects on recovery. He had been through this with his experiences of the NHS as a patient himself. His experience with Frameworks was very different and he wanted to help others understand this.
What our patients say
Real, verified reviews from the people we treat, on Google.
Esther Skinner
Excellent service. I always feel listened too and have any required treatment explained fully. I never feel pressured to rebook but rather genuinely cared for.
Ashley Hockley
Very professional polite service. Dr Sanyal was excellent and the service was excellent as well I couldn't recommend them enough
Andrew Woodhouse
Excellent treatment and service again today. I have been a patient for around 20 years and cannot recommend highly enough.
St Leonards: common questions
About three and a half miles, or roughly seven minutes by road, into Verwood. There is parking at the clinic and no referral is needed to book the free assessment.
For most of St Leonards and St Ives, yes. The villages sit between Verwood and Ringwood, and our clinic is the nearer end of that run for anyone on the Verwood side.
No. Adjustments are made using instruments that allow us to create very small, precise movements. This emphasises what we believe is the need for gentle, easy and considered care.
There is no cracking, forceful thrust or sudden manipulation. When you are treated, you either lie flat on your front or remain seated upright, fully clothed.
The Foundation Phase is four treatments over two to four weeks, £228 for the course. The fourth treatment includes a mandatory review after which many patients are seen occasionally rather than on an ongoing plan, and how often is discussed individually.
No. You can book the free 15-minute assessment directly, and appointments are usually available the same week.
Areas near St Leonards
We treat patients from across east Dorset and the edge of Hampshire. If you are near St Leonards, these are also a short drive from the clinic.
Travelling from St Leonards? Start with the free assessment.
Fifteen minutes, no cost and no obligation. We are about 7 minutes away in Verwood, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help before you spend anything.
- Free 15-minute assessment, no obligation
- No referral needed and no waiting list
- Parking at the clinic