Spinal adjustment
Hands-on care for restricted neck, mid-back and lower-back joints that have stopped moving the way they should.
Chiropractic studio
For spines that have been carrying too much.
Third Vessel is a small practice built around one idea: you should leave a session understanding your own back. Gentle, deliberate adjustment. No packages, no pressure, no rushing you off the table.
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Low-force where it helps
Instrument-assisted and mobilisation techniques for anyone who would rather skip the sudden movements.
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Fifty unhurried minutes
Sessions are long enough to assess, treat and explain — not a conveyor belt of five-minute slots.
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Plain language, always
You'll hear what we found and why it matters, described in words you can repeat to someone else.
The method
Three things we do differently.
Most backs don't need heroics. They need someone patient enough to find the actual restriction and honest enough to say when it isn't a chiropractic problem.
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Assess before we touch
Every first session starts with movement screening and a conversation about how your days are actually shaped — the desk, the kit bag, the sleeping side.
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Adjust the smallest amount that works
We choose the lightest technique that achieves the change, and we tell you beforehand exactly what it will feel like.
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Send you home with something to do
Two or three movements, not twenty. Care that only works while you're on the table isn't care — it's a subscription.
Care
What people come in for.
If you recognise yourself in one of these, you're in the right place. If you don't, say so in your enquiry and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Desk and posture strain
The slow ache between the shoulder blades, the stiff neck by Thursday, the wrists that complain on long weeks.
Sports recovery
Training niggles, return-to-running plans and the kind of tightness that shows up two days after the session, not during it.
Low-force technique
Instrument-assisted and drop-table work for nervous first-timers, older patients and anyone who dislikes the cracking sound.
Prenatal and postnatal
Side-lying and supported positioning for pelvic and lower-back discomfort through pregnancy and the months after.
Mobility rehab
A short, progressive set of movements to rebuild range after an injury, a long layoff or a stubborn flare-up.
Your first visit
Nothing happens that you haven't agreed to.
Roughly fifty minutes, wearing whatever you can move comfortably in. Here's the shape of it.
Step one
The conversation
What brought you in, how long it's been going on, what makes it worse. We ask about sleep, work and training because that's usually where the answer lives.
Step two
The assessment
Simple movement and joint testing, narrated as we go. If we think you need imaging or a different practitioner, we'll say so before anything else happens.
Step three
The treatment
Adjustment or mobilisation matched to what we found, then two or three movements to take home and a clear note on when to come back — if at all.
Who you'll see
Dr. Imogen Hale
Imogen founded Third Vessel after a decade of shared-clinic practice, mostly to get away from fifteen-minute appointments. She works alone by choice: the person who assesses you is the person who treats you, every time.
"The best outcome I can give someone is that they stop needing me. That's the whole job."
Imogen Hale — Founding practitioner
Questions
The ones we're asked most.
Does an adjustment hurt?
Most people describe it as pressure followed by relief rather than pain.
You'll know what's coming before it happens, and you can stop a session at any point without
explaining yourself. If you'd rather avoid the classic technique entirely, we have low-force
alternatives that work well.
How many sessions will I need?
We won't sell you a block up front. After the first visit you'll get an
honest estimate, and we revisit it as you improve. Plenty of people come twice and then only
return when something changes.
What should I wear?
Anything you can move and stretch in — gym kit is ideal, but ordinary
soft clothes are fine. You won't be asked to change into a gown.
Do I need a referral first?
No — you can request a session directly. If you're already working with
another practitioner, mention it in your enquiry so we can keep the two plans pointing in the
same direction.
Request a session
Tell us what's going on.
Send the short form and we'll reply with a session window that fits, plus a straight answer on whether chiropractic care is the right starting point for you.
- New patients are given a full first-visit slot, never a short one.
- Morning and late-afternoon sessions run Monday through Friday.
- If we're not the right fit, we'll say so in the reply.