Bloomsbury, London
TMD Physio in Bloomsbury
The clinic sits at 26-27 Bedford Square, in the heart of Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury residents and workers can walk to appointments in under 5 minutes from Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road or Goodge Street.
- Russell Square (2 min)
- Tottenham Court Road (5 min)
- Goodge Street (6 min)
- British Museum
- UCL
- Senate House
- Coram's Fields
- 5 minutes to the clinic
- 26-27 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3HP
Who we typically see from BloomsburyUCL staff, Bloomsbury residents & professionals
A note on Bloomsbury patients
Most Bloomsbury patients arrive on foot — the clinic is a 2-minute walk from Russell Square Tube and directly opposite Senate House gardens. We see a consistent mix of UCL faculty, PhD researchers, and long-time Bloomsbury residents referred by nearby dental practices.
What Krina treats
Patients from Bloomsbury come to the clinic for four core conditions. All are treated one-on-one, with time-per-appointment that dental practices and NHS physio triage rarely allow.
- TMD TreatmentComprehensive assessment and treatment for temporomandibular joint disorders, including jaw pain, clicking, locking, and restricted movement.Learn more
- Headache & Migraine ReliefSpecialized treatment for tension headaches, migraines, and cervicogenic headaches using manual therapy and targeted exercises.Learn more
- Tinnitus ManagementEvidence-based physiotherapy approach to managing tinnitus through jaw and neck treatment, helping reduce symptoms and improve quality of life.Learn more
- Facial Pain TreatmentComprehensive treatment for facial pain, including trigeminal neuralgia, facial tension, and referred pain from the jaw and neck.Learn more
Meet Krina — a note on Bloomsbury patients
Why this catchment ends up here
For Bloomsbury patients, the consultation usually starts with an audit of your last 72 hours: how many hours in front of Senate House Library or the UCL wing, what time you finished last night, how much of the morning was spent chin-down at a laptop or squinting at Google Scholar. Academic and research patients from Bloomsbury share a very specific TMD profile — jaw guarding that builds through long silent reading sessions, then decompresses just enough at night to remain undetected until the third or fourth cup of coffee the next day. Krina trained in Watson Headache® and CRAFTA® — both frameworks that treat the cervical spine and the trigeminal system as one integrated unit rather than two separate problems. That approach maps directly to what shows up in academic patients: neck-driven referral into the jaw and temples that mimics 'stress headache' but responds much better to manual therapy of the upper cervical joints than to painkillers. Because you're a five-minute walk from 26–27 Bedford Square, we can also do short check-ins between longer sessions — useful if you're managing a chronic pattern around a viva, deadline, or conference.
Why Bloomsbury patients choose The TMD Physio
- Specialist-only caseload. Krina Panchal (BSc Hons Physio, MCSP, HCPC-registered) sees only TMD, headache, migraine and tinnitus patients — no general MSK.
- Hyper-local convenience. 5 minutes from Bloomsbury by tube or on foot; central Bloomsbury location on Bedford Square.
- NESA neuromodulation available. One of a small handful of UK clinics offering this autonomic-nervous-system technology for chronic pain.
- Evidence-led. Postgraduate training with Watson Headache®, CRAFTA®, Instituto Rocabado, the TreatingTMJ Course, and CCMA (2025).