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Andrew Martin, Doctor of Chiropractic
MSc (Chiropractic), BSc (Hons)
- Active Release Techniques® Certified:
- Full Body ART® Certified
- ART® Long Track Nerve Entrapment
- ART® Biomechanics Certified
- ART® Complex Protocols Certified
- ART® Masters Certified
- Upper Extremity 2, Spine 2 and Lower Extremity 2 ART® Certified
- ART® Fascia Course Certified
- Dry Needling Certified
- Graston Technique® Certified
- Fellow of Applied Functional Sciences®
- CrossFit Games athlete support 2014 – 2023
Andrew Martin is the founder and Director of ActiveBacks functional healthcare. He has been involved with St Paul’s School Rowing Club since 2016, as well as the Oxford University Boat Club from 2008 – 2020, where he has witnessed several victories in the Princess Elizabeth Cup at Henley Royal Regatta as well as the Oxford vs Cambridge legendary Boat Race. Since 2013 Andrew has been Sports Chiropractor to Annie Thorisdottir, two time world champion at the CrossFit Games and Lifetime Achievement Award winner for longest running professional CrossFit athlete ever, awarded in 2023.
He is a leading chiropractor in the field of Active Release Techniques® (ART®), a patented soft-tissue technique designed to provide fast relief of symptoms and improve your performance at home, work and in sports. With over ten years experience teaching the technique internationally and in top flight professional sports settings, Andrew is passionate about this innovative way of helping to clear scar tissue from unresolved injuries and the effect it can also have on functional performance.
Working as a Chiropractor in London, Andrew Martin has a very personal reason for taking the career path that he did.
His interest in chiropractic was sparked at a young age after seeing the benefit his father gained following attendance at a natural healthcare practitioner to manage a painful and debilitating disc injury. He was amazed at the improvement in his father who hadn’t been able to walk for months and was then walking again in only a matter of weeks and was able to cancel his scheduled spinal surgery.
Andrew was amazed that all this could be achieved just by using your hands and knowing enough about the body, but was also frustrated with the limited options that his father had been given.
Even at the young age of eight and before the time of easy internet access, Andrew had read extensively about chiropractic and by the time he left primary school not only had he learnt all the bones in the human body, but he was certain of his future career.
As much as he would have loved to have been a teenage chiropractor, he did have to wait until after his A-levels before he could begin his chiropractic training!
Education and Qualifications
To gain registration with the General Chiropractic Council, Andrew attended the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic (AECC) in Bournemouth, undertaking a 5-year course to receive both a BSc Hons and MSc Chiropractic.
Besides gaining a Distinction in his MSc, Andrew has demonstrated his commitment to chiropractic through continuing his professional development.
He has developed a specialist interest in ART® and is accredited with all of the ART® certifications. In 2008 he became an instructor for ART and has taught at some of our Premiership football clubs in the UK as well as instructing and teaching internationally on this technique.
This specialised area of chiropractic is designed to remove scar tissue from unresolved injuries, including soft tissue injuries, neuromuscular injuries and nerve entrapment, helping patients to resume full fitness and function.
Andrew is additionally certified in Dry Needling and the Graston Technique®.
Continuing development
Andrew has been a Chiropractor in Hammersmith for over twenty years and has developed a unique approach to functional healthcare, extending the same principles of injury care along with the latest in applied functional sciences for what he refers to as, performance care, which can be tailored to the context of whichever sport you are wanting to excel in.
Although he has been devoted to chiropractic since a very young age, Andrew remains curious and interested in finding the best possible ways of helping patients. He continues to keep up-to-date with advances in chiropractic, as this area of complementary medicine is continually developing.
His passion for learning extends to his hobbies as well, with Andrew always keen to explore new activities that will aid his personal development. In Nov 2023 he and the ActiveBacks team completed their first Hyrox competition in 1hr and 9mins.
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