Tel: 01923773060
Mobile: 07884185115
Registered with the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) and a member of the British Chiropractic Association (BCA)
I started Chiropractic and Wellness Centre with a colleague in 1999. My intention was to create an accessible venue where a range of natural therapies that are offered in an uncomplicated fashion at a reasonable price by experienced practitioners. Therapeutic knowledge combined with the skills of the healing arts are what drives our centre 20 years later. For Chiropractic there are prompt appointments, convenient for those working business hours who need evening appointments plus Saturday mornings. Make our centre the informed choice for your injury and wellness issues.
- Neck Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Headaches
- Herniated Discs
- Shoulder Pain
- Stress Reduction
- Low Back Stiffness and Irritability
- Running and Exercise Injury
- Foot Pain
- Numbness and Tingling
- Sciatica
- Arm/Wrist/Hand Pain
- Hip/Leg Pain
- Scoliosis/posture
- Trapped Nerve
- TMJ/jaw pain
- Sports Injuries
What should I expect on my first visit?
Like other health care practitioners, Chiropractors follow a standard routine to acquire the information needed for diagnosis and treatment.
A complete medical history will be obtained and physical, neurological and orthopaedic examinations will be conducted. A postural and spinal analysis will be performed to evaluate the alignment and check the motion of the spine.
What is an adjustment?
Adjustments are a specific manual chiropractic treatment used to correct spinal alignment problems to improve motion of the vertebra. A patient’s symptoms, pain and discomfort are relieved by moving specific joints to reduce pressure and irritation.
Is an adjustment painful?
Most patients report a sense of well being after an adjustment. However, in rare instances mild soreness or stiffness may be felt similar to the feeling you experience after exercising. This discomfort resolves within 12 to 24 hours.
How many adjustments will I need?
One adjustment may provide immediate relief and alleviate symptoms. In order to correct the problem several adjustments over a period of time are often needed. Each patient will be carefully evaluated to determine which course of treatment is best for them.
What are non-force techniques and soft tissue therapies?
All patients at Chiropractic and Wellness Centre receive some soft tissue therapy, massage or electro-therapy to prepare an area aimed at unlocking and decompressing swollen joints in order to relieve the acute phase of the injury. Patients who prefer milder non-force techniques to be used are well catered for and are given soft tissue correction in preference to an adjustment.
What is the theory behind Chiropractic treatment?
The modern Chiropractor is an independent physical/manual therapy practitioner who works both directly and indirectly with the nervous system.
Your nervous system controls and regulates every cell of your body. When your nervous system doesn’t work correctly, you don’t work correctly. Ideally, our bones stack up one upon the other: the head rests directly on top of the spine, which sits directly over the pelvis, which sits directly over the knees and ankles. But if you spend hours every day sitting in a chair in front of an office P.C., if you hunch forward on a phone or stand all day, if you drive long distances, lift excessively, or play dynamic sports you will stress your spine and it may become misaligned.
The recurrent soft tissue damage will eventually cause pain and you will feel as if you have a physical problem as the root muscles of your posterior neck and or your low back are affected by the resulting nerve tension and increased joint pressure.
That is where chiropractic really shines. Chiropractors provide the physical solutions: adjustments, exercises, stretches, muscle therapies to help the body heal from conditions that are physical in origin, but there is a deeper understanding that the learned patterns of this injury process actually reside in your nervous system.
Hence the need for gentle, specific adjustments (the Chiropractic word for manipulation) to improve the co-ordinated efficiency of your spine and joints, bones, muscles that all rely on these intimate nerve tissues that are the key to recovery.
The chiropractic adjustment is a quick thrust applied to a vertebra or a limb for the purpose of correcting its position, movement or both. Adjustments are often accompanied by an audible release of gas that sounds like a “crack.” The sound sometimes shocks people a little bit the first couple times
they get adjusted, but the sensation is usually relieving.
Many chiropractors also use far gentler mobilising and stretching techniques that re-activate the balance of muscle tone and restore the function of nerve tone around an injury site that includes the large prime mover muscle groups but also take account of synergists, the smaller muscle groups that support the main trunk or the overall balance of a limb.
Chiropractic has a purposeful analytical approach aimed at more fully understanding the mechanism of injury, in order to direct a physical therapy to where it is needed most with the correct level of intensity. Respect for the healing art that can so easily be overlooked if we notice only the obvious
physical injury and not the evidence that the body’s own inner regulator is at work.
This was what the original first chiropractors referred to as the innate, the inner healer, a premise at the heart of chiropractic philosophy that set their emerging profession apart from the very beginning in the mid-western United States one hundred years ago.
