Your body is a wonderful self regulating, self healing organism.  Think about it! When you cut a finger, or break a bone it isn’t the band-aid or the cast that does the healing.  You were born with a “genetic blueprint” programmed for the optimal health and healing.

Your nervous system acts as the messenger to every cell, tissue and organ in your body sending billions of electrical impulses back and forth keeping your body in a state of optimal function with the capacity to heal itself.

Pain or symptoms are simply the body’s warning signals that sometimes is terribly wrong.  Since only 10% of your nervous system is dedicated towards pain, months and years of nervous system damage can occur before you realise there is a problem (Hause. M. Spine 1993). Much like high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer you could be in a state of malfunction and disease before you feel a symptom.

Medicine’s response is usually surgery, pain killers, anti inflammatories or muscle relaxants which will mask the symptoms oftern leaving the cause untouched.  This can lead to serious side effects.

Doctors of Chiropractic are uniquely the only trained professionals to gently, and safely, detect and correct spinal problems (called subluxation) gently improving the body’s ability to heal to its full potential.

The Difference

What is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is a health science and profession that aims to rehabilitate and improve people with movement disorders and pain by using evidence based methods such as manual therapy, exercise, education, motivation and specialised equipment.

What is Osteopathy?

Osteopathy uses evaluation, diagnosis and a range of techniques to identify types of dysfunction.  Osteopathy treatment uses stretching, manipulation, and massage for general treatment of the soft tissue and mobilisation of joints.

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a health science and profession based on the scientific premise that the body is self-regulating and self-healing if given the opportunity to function without abnormal interference. The practice of Chiropractic focuses on the relationship between structure (primarily the spine, cranium and pelvis), and how that relationship (subluxation) affects health.

Chiropractors are taught many gentle, scientific and specific techniques to adjust the spine to it’s normal position and are trained to choose a technique suited to a person, elderly, child or baby as each required a very specific technique.