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Do you spend most of your day sitting, whether it’s at work, in the car, on public transport, or watching TV? Well, you’re not alone. Australia is a nation of ‘sitters’ and its starting to take its toll on our health. Why not improve your health simply by standing up and moving around more? It’s also [...] [Read more...]
Over the years, we have written and spoken about many ways that you can help yourself when it comes to neck pain. To make it easier, here is a list of things to have a look at on our websites: Video: Conversations at KingsWilliam: “Why do I always have a sore neck?” We are often asked “Why do [...] [Read more...]
Here are some more posture related problems. I thought I might point out a few things about sitting in front of a lap top, just to get you thinking about the sort of damage that you can do without even realising it. Is this you? Computer neck!!! Your head is about as heavy as a bowling ball. The [...] [Read more...]
Many people bring their children to our chiropractors for regular check ups. The advantages are many – just browse through our past articles. An interesting and common observation that parents make is that an adjustment can have a calming effect on their children. Have a look at our latest video: Conversations at Kingswilliam – Twitchy kids [...] [Read more...]
Many people suffer with pain in their wrists and hands and don’t realise there’s something they can do about it – chiropractic can help! Often people have been to their doctor and have been told it’s an overuse injury and there isn’t much they can do about it, or that their only option is surgery. [...] [Read more...]
So many of the problems that we see are posture related. Over the next few months, I thought I might point out a few things about various postures just to get you thinking about the sort of damage that you can do without even realising it. Is this you? Using your shoulder to hold the [...] [Read more...]
So, you’ve been told you have a scoliosis. Do you need to be concerned? Fortunately for most people the answer is no! It’s extremely common to have a mild spinal scoliosis, and in most cases they don’t cause any problems at all. What is a scoliosis? A scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine. Mostly, a scoliosis is [...] [Read more...]
Graham, one of our clinic regulars, mentioned a problem the other day that he had with tightness of his Achilles. I promised to provide some instructions for home help which would compliment our treatments. Here’s the link on “Home help for Achilles Tightness” for Graham to download and for anyone else who is having Achilles issues. The [...] [Read more...]
If you’ve been having chiropractic adjustments for a while, your chiropractor might have moved you on to what we call a ‘Maintenance Schedule’. This means that the condition of your spine and nervous system has stabilised and that you only need an adjustment every 4-6 weeks to correct any imbalances that have occurred in your [...] [Read more...]
Many of you may have read the article in the Sunday telegraph on the 21st November entitled “Treatment could be a big pain in your neck”. Since this article some of you have asked if our treatment could lead to a similar outcome. The simple answer is an unequivocal NO. Why? Simple, we don’t do that [...] [Read more...]