Neck pain treatment for the stiffness that keeps coming back.

Yes. Book it online and your first session is the Blueprint Assessment. If the assessment shows the programme is not right for you, we refund everything except the assessment. You can also cancel within 14 days of booking and pay only for the sessions you have used. Prefer to meet first? Book the Blueprint Assessment on its own, and if you go ahead the £129 comes off the programme.

Usually not. We agree what your neck can handle at your assessment and adjust your training around it, so you keep moving while it settles.

The programme is 8 sessions. Your assessment sets the plan for your neck, and you leave with the plan to carry on.

Once a doctor has checked you after the accident, yes. Whiplash is an injury, so it starts with The Cornerstone assessment on our rehabilitation track rather than this programme. If you have already booked this programme, we move you across and settle the difference.

If it is not moving, the plan changes, or we refer you on.

No. Physiotherapist is a protected title for HCPC registered clinicians, and Alexander is not registered, so we never use it. Here is what you get instead.

Alexander is an ISRM Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapist with 6+ years of MSK rehabilitation and 5+ years of strength coaching. He has treated 710 clients across 907 appointments, and coached 109 clients through strength training. Achilles is also the Official Soft Tissue and Recovery Partner of Old Streetonians RFC.

You see him at every session, from the assessment to the last one. If your assessment points to something that needs a registered clinician, a doctor or a scan, he tells you and refers you on.

We do not work with private medical insurers. We provide a full receipt and a paid invoice for every session, so if your policy or health cash plan reimburses treatment, you can claim it back yourself.

Most often it is the muscles and joints of the neck and upper back holding one position for too long, at a desk, on a phone or while driving, with stress and poor sleep adding to it. Sometimes the upper back or the shoulders are part of the problem. Your assessment tells us which applies to you before a single exercise is set.

There is no single correct posture and no perfect pillow. Holding one position for hours is the bigger problem. Changing position often and building strength in the neck and upper back helps more than a new chair or a new pillow.

Some do. A headache that starts at the back of the neck and comes with neck stiffness can be linked to it, and the assessment checks for that. A new, sudden or severe headache, or one with dizziness or changes to your vision or speech, needs a doctor first.

That can mean an irritated nerve in the neck, and we check for it at your assessment. If you also have weakness in the arm or hand, or symptoms in both arms, see your GP first, and we will tell you if you need to.

Often both. Pain across the top of the shoulder can come from the neck, and a stiff upper back can load both. The assessment checks all three. If your pain is mainly in the shoulder joint itself, our shoulder pain page is the better fit.

Usually not. Neck scans often show changes that are just as common in people with no neck pain. Imaging helps after an accident or a fall, when there are nerve symptoms that are getting worse, or when progress stalls, and we will tell you if yours is one of those.

Desk workers around Kings Cross, people who drive or travel for work, swimmers, climbers and lifters, and anyone whose neck stiffness keeps coming back. We see clients at both clinics, in Kings Cross and in Hampstead, and the assessment and the programme are the same at each.

Go to A&E or call 999 if neck pain follows a major accident, a fall or a serious sports injury, or comes with dizziness, double vision, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, numbness or weakness in your face, arms or legs, or a collapse.

See your GP first if you feel unwell or feverish, have lost weight without trying, have had cancer and the pain is worse at night, or have weakness in an arm or symptoms in both arms. We screen for all of these at your assessment and refer you on if your case needs it.