Prof Alan Breen, Chiropractor

DC., PhD., MIPEN., FRCC

Alan Breen is a Fellow of the Royal College of Chiropractors. He is an academic and no longer practicing as a registered chiropractor. He acts as a consultant to the clinic.

Alan graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and then started this practice in 1974. He is a well respected and renowned international researcher and lecturer in the field of musculoskeletal care and has contributed to government reports and national guidelines on back pain. He has published many research papers including surveys of chiropractic which have been instrumental in establishing the profession.

He pioneered research into digital fluoroscopy of spinal motion segments to assess mechanical instability. He runs the Institute for Musculoskeletal Research and Clinical Implementation at the AECC in Bournemouth and the new Open and Upright MRI scanner.

He has served on the BCA council and as a member of the General Chiropractic Council.

He has four grown-up children and likes windsurfing and skiing.

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