Muscle Balance
The vital component to injury prevention Most people think of the core as a nice six-pack, or strong, toned abs, but the truth is that the abdominal muscles are a very small part of the core. The abdominals have a very limited and specific action, and what experts refer to [...]
Do you want more mobility?
Our profession is always on the lookout for quality evidence based research to help explain how Chiropractic helps people with a variety of symptoms. This month I found an informative article about how spinal manipulation can help to increase the quality and quantity of spinal movement. In essence Chiropractors focus [...]
National Spinal Health Week 2014
Between the 19th and the 25th of May is National Spinal Health WeekTM, an initiative from the Chiropractors' Association of Australia (CAA). The theme for this year's Spinal Health Week is Live Better – We’ve got your back. The idea is for us to Feel Better, Play Better and Live [...]
Annual Sports Injury Peak About to Hit
After the Christmas and New Year breaks many of us will soon start to begin training for our chosen team sport. No matter what sport you subscribe to, the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia NT (CAANT) is forecasting a surge in sports-related injuries over the coming weeks. Approaching dry season team [...]
Knuckle Cracking and Arthritis
As I’ve focussed on more serious Chiropractic topics over the last few months, in this month’s column I’ve decided to lighten my discussion to something a little less clinical. A question we hear commonly is “Does knuckle cracking cause arthritis and why does my son/daughter do it all the time”? [...]
School a ‘pain in the back’
The new school year means back to carrying around heavy backpacks Uncorrected postural issues, heavy school bags and poor lifestyle choices can all lead to spinal health problems as a child grows. Spinal health problems related to childhood often go unnoticed, as initial poor posture, back pain and “growing pains” [...]
School can be a pain in the back!
As school bags are dusted off in readiness for the 2014 school year, the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia NT (CAANT) would like to take time this month to warn parents and students about the long term impact of poorly fitted or over loaded backpacks and school bags. As our children [...]
Vertebral Artery
This month I’m discussing a topic that creates a lot of controversy between our profession and other health industries. That is the perceived dangers of manipulation (adjustment) to the neck and the corresponding dangers to our neck arteries and blood supply to our brain. Before I adjust a new patient’s [...]
Stiffness and Thickness
As a follow-up to my September column, this month I will be discussing a further benefit of Chiropractic care, that is, when patients report increased mobility and less stiffness after treatment. Recently I discovered a study performed at the University of Utah by a Professor of Physiotherapy who measured certain [...]
Healthy Bone Week
As I’ve discussed in previous columns, as a population we are becoming more sedentary than ever, particularly children who are exercising less than before. Unfortunately in our modern world we are seeing an increase number of kids spending too much time indoors on computers, in front of the TV or [...]
Why Does it Feel Better?
One common question that I am asked on a regular basis especially from other health practitioneers, is “what does manipulation (chiropractic adjustments) actually do and how does it work”? There are a few different benefits that occur from an adjustment, one benefit that I would like to discuss today is [...]
One Very Long Pain in the Neck
If you had really bad neck pain what animal what you least like to be, if you thought about it for a while, you would probably say giraffe, right? Giraffes and humans have at least 2 things in common, they both have 7 bones (vertebrae) in their neck, and they [...]