Arthritis	Sciatica
Back Pain	Scoliosis
Buttock/groin/thigh/leg pain	Shoulder, arm and hand pain
Children's pains	Slipped disc
Headaches	Sports injuries
Neck pain	Tendonitis
Numbness	Tennis/golfers elbow
Pins and needles	Trapped nerve
Pregnancy discomfort	Whiplash

'Your Whole Family Can benefit from Chiropractic care’

Back and Neck Pain

Throughout life a slight loss of movement of the joints in the body can interfere with a normal working healthy spine and nervous system. This can have a knock-on effect on the way your muscles and spine work together and often results in pain. Painkiller drugs only block the pain signal to the brain. I can identify and treat the underlying cause of the problem causing your problem, thus alliviating the pain.

Have you ever wondered why your back or neck pain re-occurs?

This is because your body is temporarily healing the problem, therefore reducing pain. However often the underlying dysfunction of within the spine and muscles may still be present, allowing the problem to be vulnerable and to flare up again and again. What I can do is assess how your back is working and correct the underlying problem that is causing the pain to reoccur.

Arthritis 

Arthritis is also known as ‘wear and tear’ or osteoarthritis. Poor posture, truama and repetative stresses to joints can result in our joints wearing down. This degeneration of the joints, including the spine, is a slow process which can take years to develop without you knowing. General wear of the joints then causes your body to make extra areas of bone in an attempt to support the joints. You may feel little or no pain even if the wear and tear is quite advanced. However slight loss of the proper movement in the worn joint may result in local inflammation and nerve irritation causing you to experience pain. The degeneration within your joints cannot be reversed, but chiropractic care can improve the existing joint function and surrounding musculature.

Chiropractic can reduce muscle spasm around the joints, restore the joint’s natural movement patterns and enhance joint nutrition, improving mobility and pain by reducing inflammation around the joints, alleviating stiff and aching joints and  helping prolong the worsening of wear an tear.

Headaches

Headaches are a common everyday problem for many people. It can leave you feeling tired and fed up with continuous recurrent discomfort. Chiropractic can help headaches linked with problems from the the neck and back. Often loss of movement and restriction in the joints of the neck and upper back can create tension in the muscles and joints supporting the neck, shoulders and skull. When this occurs pain from these structures can radiate and travel appearing as pain in different parts of the head and face. Chiropractic can alleviate this pain by correcting the underlying dysfunction within the spine, leaving you feeling headache free.

Shoulder, arm and hand pain

Irritation of the nerves from the neck can result in pain that radiates into the shoulder and arm. It can be experienced as dull, burning or sharp shooting pain. To relieve this discomfort it is important to correct the cause from the source of the pain. Chiropractic care can identify the source of the pain and treat it appropriately.

Often pain may be coming from the shoulder, elbow or wrist joints. If the joints in the upper extremity are not functioning correctly, it can leave surrounding mucles weak and painful. Chiropractic is not only a specialist treatment for the spine but is also highly specialised in treating the joints of the arms and legs.

Sciatica

When pain is experienced in the the lower limb it is often termed as 'sicatica'. Sciatica is caused by pressure on the nerve root as it exits the spinal column, creating symptoms through the distribution of the nerve. Often the sciatica is caused by a disc bulge or 'slipped disc' compressing the nerve. With Chiropractic care I can help alleviate those symptoms onto the leg by correcting the spine to take the pressure off the affected nerve. It is also possible to experience pain in the groin, leg or thigh due to refered pain from muslces and joints within the spine, pelvis and associated muscles. These can also be aliviated through proper diagnosis of the cause and then chiropractic to correct the dysfunction.

Slipped disc

The intervertebral discs act as a shock absorber for the spine. They are formed by a tough fibrous outer layer with an inner 'gel like' centre. Technically the disc cannot slip out because they are firmly attached to the vertebra above and below. However the disc can bulge to varying degrees or the outer fibre can tear and result in the inner 'gel like' substance bulging out. The bulge may occur as a consequence of the change of alignment in the spine, creating pressure on the disc, therefore squeezing the disc so that it protrudes out of its normal position. When this occurs it can either irritate or pinch the nerve that is exiting the spinal column at that point.

Chiropractic can correct the spinal alignment that may be predisposing the disc to bulge. Correcting the alignment can then reduce the pressure that is causing the disc bulge. Once the mechanics are corrected the pain will reduce, owing to reduced pressure on the nerves and joints.

Trapped nerve

A completely trapped or pinched nerve is rare, however an irritated nerve is more common. This can occur from a disc bulge (see slipped disc), misalignment of the spine or bony changes around the nerve. Compression and irritation can result in pain, muscle weakness, pins and needles, numbness, burning sensations or throbbing pain. If the pinched nerve is in the back you will likely have these symptoms in the leg, if the pinched nerve is in the neck you may have the symptoms in the arm. I can help alleviate the pain and problem by correcting the spine to free up the pressure on the nerve and therefore reduce the pain.