Chiropractic Care
If you think of how the body works, the brain is the supercomputer, which controls every function of your body. Nothing happens without the brain having a say in it. You’ve also got sensors in the skin for temperature, pressure, touch, and pain, and all those sensations.
The Importance of Brain-Body Communication
Just like you’ve got those sensors in the skin, you have sensors in the joints, which measure the movement of the joint, how much tension is in the muscles, and how much work the joint is doing. When you get an injury, the brain switches off those sensors in the joints to protect you. You can look at it like the fuse board in your house, that would have a trip on it.
If there was a power surge, the fuse board would trip to protect the electrics. That’s what your body’s doing—protecting you. A chiropractor’s job is to find out where this breakdown in communication is. We call it a subluxation. We find out where the subluxation is, and then we adjust it to restore function to switch on those sensors and get the brain and body talking again. That’s how we heal.
Muscle Testing
As part of our care, we also use a lot of muscle testing, which is a tool to help identify poor function within the body based on decreased muscle function. Where you get a weakness, you just use any muscle, and you can test with any muscle and with restricted areas of the spine.
When we get a weakness there you know the sensors are switched off, so we adjust them and recheck them. And if it’s gone strong, then we know that what we’ve done has worked, and we knew it was the right place to adjust. Then it’s just the case of letting the body heal.
Our Techniques
Our chiropractors use the following methods:
- Diversified – This is our main, hands-on manual adjusting method.
- Sacro Occipital Technique (SOT) – With this method, wedge-shaped blocks are used to address more complex situations and cases.
- Activator – This instrument-assisted adjusting method uses light force and is ideal for people who can’t be adjusted or don’t want to be adjusted.
- Thompson – For patients who can’t or don’t want to be adjusted, this gentler technique is ideal.
In addition to these methods, we offer taping and exercises, and other auxiliary techniques, to help complement a patient’s chiropractic care.
Conditions We See
Here are some of the most common conditions for which patients seek our care:
- Low back pain
- Extremities problems
- Sciatica
- Neck pain
- Headaches
- Frozen shoulder
- Tennis elbow
- Golfer’s elbow
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Hip, knee, and ankle pain
- TMJ pain
- Sports injuries
Vitality Club Membership
After a patient’s initial course of care, we offer a Vitality Club Membership that allows the patient to save on long-term chiropractic care. We believe this membership is an outstanding value and may go a long way towards optimising your wellbeing.
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