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About the Clinic
The Swindon Chiropractic Clinic has treated over 24,000 patients.
The practice was established in January 1982 in Winifred Street
in Old Town by Jan Blankenstein who had trained at Anglo-European
College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth after a varied career in all
types of transport matters.
It took till November 1985 to attract
our first thousand patients but as the success of chiropractic
as a health care system became known, the number of patients
we were seeing rapidly increased and we engaged our first associate
in 1986.
Since that time the practice has grown to be a four practitioner practice
and we have had working with us chiropractors from Scotland, England,
Ireland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Canada,
Israel and Switzerland - over twenty practitioners in total, many
of whom have gone on to establish their own practices all over the
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We have now reached our 24,000th patient - in a Swindon population
of 180,000. This means that more than one person in ten in Swindon
has attended the clinic, firmly establishing Chiropractic as an effective
and safe form of Complimentary Medicine.
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have 6 administrative staff and we have also been a training
practice for the past 18 years and have hosted visits from general
practitioners, medical students, GP registrars and numerous chiropractic
students. |
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As a result of being involved in the local schools'
Work Experience Schemes, a number of students have decided to
follow a career in Chiropractic, attending Chiropractic Colleges
in Abingdon, Bournemouth and Glamorgan.
As adjuncts to the chiropractic treatment we have the "Cloud
Nine"
Floatation room and also access to massage and reflexology therapists.
Jan Blankenstein has been for
ten years a regional tutor on the profession's Period of
Provisional Registration Scheme and is a past Director of the Scheme. He now fulfils the role of peripatetic tutor, travelling around the country to give support wherever it is necessary.
The members of the Practice are delighted that we have been
able to serve the inhabitants of Swindon so well and look forward
to continuing the service well into the 21st century. |
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