Chiropractic

Are you looking for a Chiropractor?

If you are looking for a chiropractor in Geelong or the surrounding region, our experienced chiropractors have a broad range skills and techniques that can assist you to recover from injury and improve your health. Our chiropractors have many years experience treating people of all ages for a variety of health conditions.  Each chiropractor has additional qualifications to their chiropractic degrees enabling them to take an holistic and comprehensive approach to your care.

We looking forward to being a part of your health care team.

Typically a chiropractor will treat spine and spine related conditions.  Our chiropractors use a combination of hands on therapy, exercise rehabilitation and lifestyle modifications to help you achieve the best outcomes.  Some of the more common problems we help Geelong residents with include:

• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Headaches
• Sports Injuries
• Hip pain
• Shoulder pain
• Disc injuries
• Migraine headaches
• Spine and core strength weakness
• Pregnancy related musculoskeletal pain
• Postural problems

There is a a good deal of scientific evidence that has accumulated over the past few decades, confirming that chiropractic care is an effective and low risk treatment option for many painful musculoskeletal conditions.

How do our chiropractors help you with these problems?

Our chiropractors use a number of treatment approaches to help you with your problems.

First and foremost we will listen to your concerns, ask you questions about your problem and how it might be affecting you in your daily life.  We will then perform an assessment to establish and accurate diagnosis.  Once we have established an accurate diagnosis we will discuss with you the most appropriate treatment approach to get you back on track.

Our treatment or management approach will often include a combination of

• Hands on treatment – joint mobilisation or manipulation and targeted massage therapy
• Rehabilitation exercises – a combination of strengthening and stretching exercises using online exercise and rehabilitation programs
• Postural modification and advice
• Therapeutic aids – sports taping, foam rollers, pillows, ice and heat packs, massage balls and topical creams
• Work station and home ergonomic advice
• Relaxation and Mindfulness strategies
• Sleep hygeine advice
• Supplements

Our Chiropractors have been trained in Australian Universities. The Chiropractic degree spans 5yrs and is one of the most comprehensive and up to date courses in the world.

In addition to the mandatory undergraduate training, registration standards require Chiropractors to achieve ongoing continuing educations hours each year. Keeping up to date with the latest research and techniques is essential and our chiropractors are expected to exceed the minimum continuing professional development requirements each year.

Each chiropractor at our clinic has additional training to their chiropractic degrees.  You can read more about each chiropractors profile here.  Briefly, our team of chiropractors have extra training in areas such as chronic and complex pain, health promotion, sports chiropractic and injury rehabilitation, mat pilates and pregnancy care.

Our Chiropractors accept

• Private Health Insurance – on the spot claiming through HICAPS
• Medicare rebates – with appropriate referral from your medical doctor
• WorkCover
• TAC
• Veterans Affairs

For many decades, chiropractors have formed an important part of the mainstream health system. In recognition of this, rebates for Chiropractic care are now available through Medicare, Department of Veterans Affairs, WorkSafe, TAC and Private Health Insurers.

What is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a health care profession concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal (nerve, muscle and joint) system and the effects of these disorders on pain, function and general health.  Our Geelong chiropractor’s pay particular attention to conditions affecting the spine.

There is an emphasis on manual techniques, including joint adjustment and/or manipulation, with a particular focus on joint dysfunction, or what chiropractors commonly refer to as subluxations.

Chiropractic practice emphasizes the conservative management of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system without the use of medicines and surgery.  Since inception, chiropractic has involved the use of a variety of other modalities aimed at improving health and function. Management options  includes joint and soft-tissue manual treatments, rehabilitation exercises, patient education and lifestyle modification, and the use of physical therapy modalities and orthotics and other supports.

Surveys demonstrate that the primary reasons patients consult chiropractors are back pain (approximately 60%), other musculoskeletal pain such as pain in the neck, shoulder, extremities, and arthritic pain (20%) and headaches including migraine (10%). About 5-10% of people present with a wide variety of conditions possibly aggravated by, mimicking or caused by neuromusculoskeletal disorders.