1. What is chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a natural, non-invasive health care practice based on the premise that an active and healthy body depends upon a healthy nervous system.

Your spine houses and protects key parts of the nervous system. Everyday activities can lead to misalignments in the spine stressing vital nerve pathways, jamming the super freeway of information that travels from your brain to your body.

There are many different ways of correcting these imbalances in the spine which are safe, gentle and effective for people of all ages. These corrections are called "Adjustments".

2. Chiropractic treatment is just for bad backs, right?

Our chiropractors help people with a wide range of conditions that are known to be improved by chiropractic treatment.

You may be surprised at some of the problems that chiropractors can help. Here are some things that you might not have thought of:

• General health maintenance
• Neck pain
• Numbness / Tingling
• Leg pain /Numbness
• Sciatica and Disc problems
• Repetitive strain injuries
• Stimulation of the immune system
• Shoulder / wrist / elbow problems
• Hip/Knee/Ankle/Foot Problems
• Carpal tunnel
• Stiffness
• Insomnia
• Lethargy / Fatigue
• Digestive problems
• Headaches/Migraines
• Lethargy / Fatigue
• Poor concentration
• Women's health problems
• Stress
• Accidents / Whiplash
• Tennis elbow
• Sports injuries
• Poor posture
• Stress
• Heartburn
• Arthritis

3. Is chiropractic therapy safe?

Chiropractic is the largest non surgical, non drug prescribing health care profession in the world. Its popularity is largely due to its success helping millions of people worldwide.

The risk of a complication with neck adjusting (manipulation) is 6.39 per 10 million adjustments and 1 in 100 million for low back adjustments.

So statistically, you are 24 thousand times worse off with neck surgery and 5 thousand times worse using off using anti-inflammatory drugs compared to seeing a Chiropractor and receiving a neck adjustment.

Chiropractors enjoy lower insurance premiums than many other healthcare professions due to the low risk of chiropractic treatment.

(Source: "Efficacy and risks of Chiropractic manipulation: What does the evidence suggest?" by Ian Coulter, Ph D Journal of Medicine, Vol 1, number 2, pp. 61-66)

4. What training and qualifications do chiropractors have?

Chiropractors are fully licensed health professionals who are governed by Registration Boards in every state of Australia. Government bodies such as Workcover, Transport Accident, Veterans Affairs and more recently Medicare all recognise the benefits of Chiropractic by paying costs of treatment for people who are eligible under theses schemes.