Spinal & Extremity adjustments: a licensed chiropractor uses their hands or a special instrument/ tool to manipulate joints in your body. This treatment is also called joint manipulation. The goal is improving functionality, reducing nerve irritability, and restoring the range of motion in the back or joints in general.
Joint mobilisation: movement and stretching of the muscle and joints with the goal of increasing the range of motion within those areas.
Ischaemic compression: a type of trigger point treatment to improve elasticity, and reduce stiffness and spasms of involved muscles and fascia.
Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation (IASTM): encompasses the use of specific tools that are designed and tested to break down scar tissue, fascial adhesions/restrictions, and eliminate pain syndromes. Beneficial for muscle strains, ligament sprains, tendonopathies, chronic musculoskeletal inflammatory conditions, bursitis, and spinal and joint pain.
Dry needling: involves the insertion of thin needles (similar to Acupuncture needles) into specific trigger points or tight knots found in muscles, tendons, ligaments, or fascia. This alleviates pain and improves range of motion.
Electrical muscle stimulation and therapeutic ultrasound: used to reduce muscle spasms, relieve pain, increase blood supply into affected areas, reduce inflammation and trigger point activity. Implementation of these modalities will assist in healing.
Taping: specialised adhesive tapes can be applied to the skin in specific patterns to provide muscle support & stability, pain relief, facilitation of lymph drainage, and improved blood circulation.
Stretching & strengthening exercises: demonstrated to you in the consult & used to release contracted muscles, tendons, and fascia; improve strength, performance, and functional capacities (endurance); improve flexibility, balance, coordination circulation, and respiratory capacity; promote relaxation self-awareness.
Patient ergonomic education & lifestyle advice: assistance to develop strategies how to decrease daily stress, improve posture and balance, improve ergonomics for your home and workplace, we will teach proper techniques to avoid back injuries, guidance with learning home care exercises, and improve self–awareness. Tools to help you help yourself.
Supplements: a healthy diet is not always enough to fulfill the needs of the body. Often we don’t realise that we don’t feel great until we start to feel better. Vitamins and minerals are for everyone – we’ll guide you with what is (if) suitable for you.
Investigations: we will refer out for any imaging ie: x-rays, ultrasound, MRI, etc or other relevant testing if medically required.
